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Join the discussion about this year’s nominees for the upcoming Academy Awards with Joe Meyers. Joe wrote about movies, theater and books for the Hearst Connecticut Media Group. Since 2017 he has been director of Programming for Focus on French Cinema, the five-day festival of the best new French language films held every April in Greenwich, Stamford and New York City.

Registration is required for this program online to receive the zoom link and password. Registration ends April 11 @ 2 p.m. CONTACT:  dplreference@biblio.org

About Joe Meyers:  From 2015 to 2018, he ran the Hearst Movie & a Martini club which showed films all over Fairfield County, including a classic film series at the Bethel Cinema that featured restored versions of “The Third Man,” “Sweet Smell of Success” and many other great Hollywood productions. In the 1970s, Meyers ran the first (and only) art house on the Delmarva Peninsula - the Lewes Cinema - where he programmed films by Francois Truffaut, Luis Bunuel and other great European filmmakers. In 2012, the Mystery Writers of America gave Meyers the Ellery Queen Award for his writing on crime fiction.