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Dennis Lim is a writer and film curator in New York City. Since 2013 he has been the director of programming at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, where he also serves on the selection committee for the New York Film Festival, as co-chair of the New Directors/New Films programming committee, and as co-organizer of annual and recurring programs including Art of the Real, Print Screen, and Projections.

He was the film editor of The Village Voice from 2000 to 2006 and a frequent contributor to The New York Times from 2006 to 2013. He edited The Village Voice Film Guide: 50 Years of Movies From Classics to Cult Hits (John Wiley, 2006) and has written on film and culture for The Los Angeles Times, Artforum, and Cinema Scope, among other publications. He has taught in the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University and the Cultural Reporting and Criticism graduate program at New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. His book on David Lynch, The Man From Another Place, part of James Atlas’s Icons series, was published in 2015 by New Harvest.