Overview

New Plaza Cinema is a trusted community of film lovers providing thought provoking entertainment, education and conversation through curated cultural film experiences.


Our focus is to keep Art Cinema Culture alive in Upper Manhattan and wherever we reach our patrons.


We currently screen films on weekends. New Plaza Cinema @Macaulay Honors College is located at 35 West 67th Street, NY, NY 10023. We are located on the UWS on the north side of 67th Street between Columbus Circle and Central Park West..


We also host several virtual lectures and film Talk Backs each month.


We are deeply grateful to Macaulay Honors College for hosting us and for their support of our mission.


New Plaza Cinema is a 501(c)3 not for profit organization and the only independent cinema north of 14th Street in Manhattan. We rely on the generous support of our patrons and donors.

Board of Directors

Gary Palmucci

Gary Palmucci

Film Curator and General Manager

After a 30+ year career in independent film acquisition and distribution, Gary segued into a new role as film curator and general manager of New Plaza Cinema’s various locations on the upper west side, and now its “virtual cinema.” Gary’s keen eye for film curation has been a significant contributor to the success and growth of NPC.

Guy-Max Delphin

Guy-Max Delphin

Founder, CEO and Chief Investment Officer, Delphin Investments LLC

Guy-Max Delphin is founder and CEO of Delphin Investments (DI) and Chairman of DHFG (dba Quisqueya Capital Advisors “QCA”). He is responsible for strategic vision of the companies. Mr. Delphin is an experienced executive with a proven track record of organizing, recruiting and building companies. Currently, Mr. Delphin advises the CEOs of a few companies across economic sectors.

Susanne Szabo Rostock

Susanne Szabo Rostock

Director/Editor

Long esteemed as “an aural and visual poet”, Susanne Rostock’s filmmaking is a stunning 40 years of some of the most compelling documentaries of each decade. Her most recent film as director / editor, Sing Your Song, about Harry Belafonte’s life as an artist and activist, was chosen to open the U.S. Documentary Competition section of the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, where it was described as a story “told with a remarkable sense of intimacy, visual style and musical panache”. This film continues to be in world wide theatrical distribution and television broadcast and has aired on HBO. Sing Your Song received top honors in festivals around the world, was shortlisted for an Oscar, and garnered the NAACP Image Award and a Gracie for Outstanding Director.

Claudine Bacher

Claudine Bacher

Founding Chair of The Eleanor Roosevelt Val-Kill Partnership

Claudine Bacher is the Founding Chair and Immediate Past Co-Chair of The Eleanor Roosevelt Val-Kill Partnership. Her organization aims to promote and sustain Eleanor Roosevelt’s ideals as one of the world’s most courageous leaders for social justice so that future generations can be inspired through her example.

Wayne Kabak

Wayne Kabak

CEO and owner of WSK Management, LLC

As a manager of television and radio personalities, authors, broadcast journalists and other notable public figures, his clients include Jane Pauley; former Secretaries of Defense Robert Gates and Ash Carter; Dr. Condoleezza Rice; composer, musician and educator Wynton Marsalis; Lou Dobbs; broadcaster and former Director of the National Economic Council Larry Kudlow; acclaimed biographer Kitty Kelley; NPR’s Scott Simon; Shoshana Zuboff, author of the groundbreaking book “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism;” noted investor and world traveler Jim Rogers; and renown businessman Sam Zell.

Paul Downs

Paul Downs

International and Entertainment Lawyer

Paul Downs practiced international law for more than four decades, most recently as a partner at Hogan Lovells in New York, where he co-founded the Sovereign Investor Practice and initiated its annual Sovereign Investor Conference. Paul is co-author of The Hunt for Unicorns: How Sovereign Funds are Reshaping Investment in the Digital Economy. He has represented sovereign investors transacting in assets globally, has spoken and published on the topic and guest lectured at Columbia and New York University law schools.

Marie-Monique Steckel

Marie-Monique Steckel

President Emerita of the French Institute Alliance Française

Marie-Monique Steckel is President Emerita of the French Institute Alliance Française
Marie-Monique has been president of the French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF) for 18 years from 2004 to 2022.
The FIAF in New York is the most important in the world:It promotes the French language with 6000 students a year and a vast array of contemporary cultural programs in New York.
The FIAF has weekly showings of French films and has an annual festival of animation films.
French citizen Marie-Monique has been Director of Communications for the Party of Jacques Chirac campaign in 1978.
She then created and led the first offices of France Telecom in New York from 1979 to 1999. In 1999, Marie-Monique joined Ronald Lauder’s team as advisor to the non profit andcommercial activities in Eastern Europe till 2004.
She is a graduate from Sciences Politiques (Sciences Po) in Paris and Yale.
She is now consultant to Charles Cohen for the restoration of the iconic cinema La Pagode in Paris
Marie Monique has received many prestigious awards from the French Government

Officier de La Legion d’Honneur
Officier de l’Ordre du Mérite
Officier des Arts et des Lettres

Jamal Joseph

Jamal Joseph

Writer, Director, Producer, Educator and Activist

Jamal Joseph is a writer, director, producer educator and activist. His film and television writer/director credits include “Chapter & Verse” (theatrical and BET) which won the Pan African Film Festival’s Audience Choice Award and was a New York Times Critic’s pick. “Drive by” and “Da Zone” for STARZ in BLACK, “Hard Chorus” and “Hip Hop in the Promised Land” for Comedy Central,” and “Hughes Dream Harlem” for PBS. Additional screenplay credits include “Knights of the South” for A&E and “Ali: An American Hero” for FOX. Joseph is an executive producer and is featured in the Emmy-nominated FX docuseries “Dear Mama” about the life and legacy of Tupac and Afeni Shakur. Joseph is featured in the PBS documentary “Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution” and the EPIX docuseries “By Whatever Means Necessary.” He is adapting his critically acclaimed memoir “Panther Baby” into a feature film.
Joseph was a leader of the Harlem Chapter of the Black Panther Party and spent nine years in prison. He began writing and directing plays in prison and founded a groundbreaking multiracial theater ensemble while incarcerated at Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary. He has since written, directed and produced plays and theatrical events at National Black Theater, New Heritage Theatre, Riverside Theater, St. James Theater, The Apollo, Theater at Madison Square Garden, Miller Theater and Carnegie Hall.
Joseph is the co-founder of the Oscar® and Grammy®-nominated Impact Youth Theatre. He is the Executive Artistic Director of New Heritage Theatre, the oldest Black non-profit theater in New York State.
Joseph has been a member of Columbia University’s film faculty for 25 years. He is a full professor of professional practice in film and was the first African American to serve as the head of the screen and television writing program and as Chair of the Graduate Film Division. He is the author of Tupac Legacy, an interactive biography of Tupac Shakur published by Atria Books.
Joseph’s awards include an NAACP leadership award, Black Filmmakers’ Hall of Fame Award, Paul Robeson Award from Actor’s Equity Association, AUDELCO Leadership Award and Sundance Directing Fellowship. He is a three-time winner of the National Black Program Consortium Prized Pieces Award, a Cine Golden Eagle, a Purpose Prize from Encore.org and a 2008 Best Song Oscar nomination.

Leadership

Norma Levy

Norma Levy

Norma Levy, Executive Committee Chairman and New Plaza President

After receiving a law degree from Yale, Norma worked in private law firms, in government, and in the corporate sector. She served as Chair of the Antitrust Section of the NYS Bar Assoc. and the Energy Cmte. of the NYC Bar Assoc., the General Counsel to the Greater NY Regulatory Assoc., and was Executive Editor of its Monthly Update.

Gary Palmucci

Gary Palmucci

Film Curator and General Manager

After a 30+ year career in independent film acquisition and distribution, Gary segued into a new role as film curator and general manager of New Plaza Cinema’s various locations on the upper west side, and now its “virtual cinema.” Gary’s keen eye for film curation has been a significant contributor to the success and growth of NPC.

Shawn Moore

Shawn Moore

Head of Marketing

Shawn Moore has almost two decades of experience working across several industries including financial services health care and other technology delivery businesses. Shawn has had multiple roles in her career, from Product Manager, Senior Product Director, Business Development Director, Sales Manager, Head of Product Management & Product Strategy and as Vice-President of Solutions Management. 

Max Alvarez

Max Alvarez

Film Historian & Guest Speaker

Max is a film historian and author who has been delivering multimedia talks on cinema history for over two decades. Max’s books include The Cinéphile’s Guide to the Great Age of Cinema, The Crime Films of Anthony Mann, and a major contribution to Thornton Wilder/New Perspectives.

Marianne Tesler

Marianne Tesler

Head of Development

Marianne has held leadership roles in several international arts and fashion companies including being CEO of Art Partner and CEO and President of Rachel Roy. A native of France, she served as CEO of Givenchy and CEO of Nike France. She is a Board Member of the International House and a consultant for the fashion and entertainment industry.

Advisory Board

Paul Auster

Bob Balaban

Fabiano Canosa

Robert Caro

Phillip Lopate

Joel Coen

Nicole Flender

Gara LaMarche

Robert Jay Lifton

Frances McDormand

Bill Moyers

Mandy Patinkin

Isabella Rossellini

Susan Sarandon

Toby Talbot

Cora Weiss

Press