Adeline Monzier, a Harlem resident, is currently a guest programmer at Metrograph in downtown Manhattan and the founder of Uptown Flicks, a screening series dedicated to cinema in Harlem. She also organizes year-round educational screenings for Film at Lincoln Center and collaborates with Rosalie Varda and Ciné-Tamaris on an educational project centered around Agnès Varda’s film The Gleaners and I. After earning a Master’s degree in Cultural and Media Management from Sciences Po Paris and a Master’s in Contemporary German Studies from the École normale supérieure in Paris (Ulm), Monzier joined DIRE, the French union of independent distributors, in 2005. In 2007, she founded Europa Distribution, a network of 130 independent distributors from 26 European countries, which she led until 2013. She also launched and directed the US-in-Progress program from 2011 to 2016, connecting American independent films in post-production with European buyers and post-production funds. From 2013 to 2024, she served as Unifrance’s representative in the United States, promoting French cinema abroad, and directed the Rendez-Vous with French Cinema festival in partnership with Film at Lincoln Center. In 2024, Monzier co-founded the Upper West Side Cinema Center, a nonprofit organization working to transform the historic Metro Theater into a cultural and educational hub for cinema, with five screening rooms. As a producer, through her company Black Rabbit Film, she produced her first short film, L’Héritage by Michaël Terraz, which was selected for 40 international festivals and won 10 awards. She has also worked as a script reader for several French companies, including Mars Distribution and CNC. In 2018–2019, she collaborated with Serge Toubiana on his book about Helen Scott, L’Amie américaine.