MUMBAI: Martin Scorsese will present the first John Huston Award for outstanding achievement in cinema to Darren Aronofksy at the First Time Fest scheduled to take place in New York from 1 to 4 March.

The festival will screen a dozen films competing and the jury and the audience will together select a grand-prize winner who will be offered theatrical distribution and full international sales representation from the American film distributor Cinema Libre Studio.

The fest will also present a series of first films from filmmakers who went on to become big names like Aronofsky‘s Pi, John Huston‘s The Maltese Falcon and Stanley Kubrick‘s Killer‘s Kiss.

The festival, which celebrates first-time filmmakers, was co-founded by Johanna Bennett and Mandy Ward and will be hosted by The Players, the club founded by actor Edwin Booth, author Mark Twain and artist John Singer Sargent in 1847 and located at Gramercy Park.