Film Lit, a new series that invites noted authors to present and discuss a movie in conversation with their own work, launches with a special screening of THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR (1975, Sydney Pollack) presented by Jeremy Scahill on Wednesday, May 29 at 8:00pm at IFC Center. Organized by Jessica Loudis of Bookforum and Gabriel Winslow-Yost of The New York Review of Books, “Film Lit” invites a writer to present a personal selection of a movie whose theme or style echoes with the writer’s own work, followed by an in-depth conversation. Future “Film Lit” programs will be announced for the summer and fall.

On May 29 at 8:00pm, journalist Jeremy Scahill (Dirty Wars) presents Sydney Pollack’s THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR, a conspiracy thriller starring Robert Redford and Faye Dunaway in the tale of CIA agent investigating his colleagues’ murder. The post-screening discussion will be moderate by Betsy Reed, executive edior of The Nation.

Jeremy Scahill is National Security Correspondent for The Nation magazine and author of the international bestseller Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army. He has reported from Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Yemen, the former Yugoslavia and elsewhere across the globe; his work has sparked several Congressional investigations and won some of journalism’s highest honors. He was twice awarded the prestigious George Polk Award, in 1998 for foreign reporting and in 2008 for his book Blackwater. In 2013, Scahill was named one of nine recipients of the Donald Windham Sandy M. Campbell literature prizes at Yale University. His latest book is Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield, which premiered at #5 on the New York Times bestseller list. He is also a producer and writer of the film Dirty Wars, which premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival; Dirty Wars opens at IFC Center and other theaters June 7, from Sundance Selects.

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