Focus Features Co-founder Discusses Indie Filmmaking in 2008 Albert Gallatin Lecture

James Schamus, CEO of Focus Features, delivered the 2008 Albert Gallatin Lecture, “Filmmaking, Storytelling, and the Indie Business,” at NYU’s Kimmel Center for University Life in March. Schamus formed Focus Features, a motion picture production, financing, and distribution company, with David Linde in 2002. Schamus has had a long collaboration with Ang Lee, an alumnus of NYU’s Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film & Television, as writer and producer on 10 feature films, including Brokeback Mountain and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.