A screening of renowned local filmmaker John Korty’s work will be held at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York City next week. Co-presented by the Cinema Conservancy, the program, called “Fog City Maverick: The Films of John Korty,” represents a retrospective of Mr. Korty’s filmography, which has spanned over six decades and garnered him Academy and Emmy Awards. His style encompasses a broad range of mediums, from eccentric animation to gritty documentary to heavily narrated character portraits. A total of nine films—four feature-length and five shorts—will be shown on four different screens as part of BAMcinématik, a program put on annually by the academy that showcases the works of distinguished, independent filmmakers outside Hollywood. “I think it’s great what they’re doing,” said Mr. Korty, who lives in Point Reyes Station. “Our society tends to move fast, and an awful lot of people get lost in the shuffle. I feel bad for some of the people I know who don’t get this treatment.” The screening marks the first time in 20 years that Mr. Korty has visited New York, where he lived in the 1960s in Brooklyn Heights. It was there Mr. Korty first resisted courting from Hollywood agents. “I knew that if I signed with the agents and they got me a job at Warner Brothers, I would be back to square one in the sense of power,” he told the Light in 2011. Mr. Korty decided to stick with low-budget, independent films that gave him more directorial control. The move paid off with films like “Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids?,” a documentary about an American couple that won an Academy Award in 1977. While In New York, Mr. Korty often found himself gazing out across the East River, dreaming of an idyllic existence of living and walking along West Coast beaches. In 1961, he drove an old Volkswagen “micro” bus across the country, landed in Stinson Beach and rented a beachfront property for $125. After a brief stint in Mill Valley, he settled in Point Reyes. Lately, Mr. Korty has begun work on a new documentary about active senior citizens. “Basically, I want to make it a film about any senior citizen, not just famous seniors, so they can say, ‘Gee, I can do that,’” said Mr. Korty, who turned 78 in June. “Some people need to be encouraged to be active when they’re that age. It’s too easy to sit around and do nothing.” Mr. Korty is also finishing a documentary on the life and work of Bolinas painter Arthur Okamura, who died in 2009. “Fog City Maverick: The Films of John Korty” runs February 24-26 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Anyone interested in donating to the post-production of the “Arthur Okamura Project” may do so through Bolinas-based Commonweal at https://donatenow.networkforgood.org/Commonweal. On March 4, the Nicasio Historical Society will screen Mr. Korty’s 1972 science fiction flick, “The People,” filmed in town and starring William Shatner and produced by Francis Ford Coppola. Details are in our calendar.