LIFE OF PI New York Film Festival Press Conference Live Stream with Ang Lee
September 28 2012
Academy Award-winning director Ang Lee and author Yann Martel will sit down with Film Society of Lincoln Center Program Director Richard Peña for a discussion of the film adaptation of Martel's Man Booker Prize-winning book LIFE OF PI on Friday, September 28 at 9:00am (PT).
Watch live video of the press conference in the player below! LIFE OF PI is the Opening Night film of the 50th New York Film Festival.
Based on the best-selling novel by Yann Martel, is a magical adventure story centering on Pi Patel, the precocious son of a zookeeper. Dwellers in Pondicherry, India, the family decides to move to Canada, hitching a ride on a huge freighter. After a shipwreck, Pi is found adrift in the Pacific Ocean on a 26-foot lifeboat with a zebra, a hyena, an orangutan and a 450-pound Bengal tiger named Richard Parker, all fighting for survival.
