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Barry Jenkins' adaptation of 'If Beale Street Could Talk' to premiere at Harlem’s Apollo Theater during New York Film Festival

'If Beale Street Could Talk' will be premiering in the same neighborhood that James Baldwin, who wrote the novel on which the film is based, grew up in and where the story is set

Barry Jenkins, best known for winning the Academy Award for Best Picture for directing 'Moonlight,' is set to premiere his feature film adaptation of James Baldwin's 1974 novel 'If Beale Street Could Talk' at Harlem's world famous Apollo Theater. The film will have a red carpet premiere on Tuesday, October 9 as part of the 56th New York Film Festival that is being presented by the Film Society of Lincoln Center. 

Poetically, the film will be premiering in the same neighborhood that Baldwin grew up in and where the story is set. Furthermore, to make the occasion even more special, the feature will mark the first time in the 56-year history of the Film Society of Lincoln Center presenting the NY Film Festival that there will be a main-slate screening outside the confines of the Lincoln Center campus.