Join us for a conversation with New York Times film critic Alissa Wilkinson, who grew up in the Capital Region, presenting her new book about Joan Didion’s adventures in Hollywood, We Tell Ourselves Stories: Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine (March 2025), at the Albany Film Festival on Saturday, March 29th.

A Star is Born features Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson. This rock musical written by the unlikely, but prolific screenwriting team of Joan Didion and her husband John Gregory Dunne— two of the best-known literary nonfiction writers and “New Journalists” of the 1960s and ‘70s— A Star Is Born earned four Oscar nominations, winning “Best Song” for “Evergreen.”

Event is free and open to the public. 

Hosted by: NYS Writers Institute