2025 Panelists
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| Name |
Genre |
Year | Details* |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cheryl Dunye | Film/Video | 2000 |
filmmaker and educator
Pasadena, CA |
| Stephen Gong | Film/Video | 1999 |
associate director, Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archives
Berkeley, CA |
| Ralph McKay | Film/Video | 2012 |
independent programmer, and program advisor, Rotterdam Film Festival
Marfa, TX |
| Beatriz Santiago Muñoz | Film/Video | 2022 |
artist, Herb Alpert Award Winner
San Juan, PR |
| Ariella Ben-Dov | Film/Video | 2010 |
artistic and festival director, Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival, American Museum of Natural History Curator, MadCat Women's International Film Festival
New York, NY |
| Richard Peña | Film/Video | 2023 |
Professor of Professional Practice (Film), Columbia University and Director Emeritus of the New York Film Festival
New York, NY |
| Bill Morrison | Film/Video | 2013 |
Filmmaker
New York, NY |
| Steve Anker | Film/Video | 2001 |
director, San Francisco Cinemathèque, professor, San Francisco Art Institute
San Francisco, CA |
| Bruce Jenkins | Film/Video | 2011 |
professor of film, video, new media and animation, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, IL |
| Roya Rastegar | Film/Video | 2020 |
filmmaker and curator, PhD. History of Consciousness
Los Angeles, CA |
| Richard Herskowitz | Film/Video | 2000 |
director, Virginia Film Festival
Charlottesville, VA |
| Wendy Hui Kyong Chun | Film/Video | 2009 |
associate professor, Modern Culture and Media, Brown University
Providence, RI |
| Almudena Escobar López | Film/Video | 2021 |
independent curator, scholar, archivist, and researcher, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester
Rochester, NY |
| Leslie Thornton | Film/Video | 1999 |
film and video artist, and associate professor of modern culture and media, Brown University
Providence, RI, and Brooklyn, NY |
| Esther Robinson | Film/Video | 2012 |
film director and producer, founder, ArtHome
Brooklyn, NY |
| Deborah Stratman | Film/Video | 2022 |
filmmaker/artist, professor of Art, University of Illinois at Chicago, Herb Alpert Award Winner
Chicago, IL |
| Philip Mallory Jones | Film/Video | 2010 |
film and media maker
Athens, OH |
| Anne Bray | Film/Video | 2002 |
artist, teacher and executive director, L.A. Freewaves
Los Angeles, CA |
| Astria Suparak | Film/Video | 2013 |
Director and Curator, Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA |
| Matthew Drutt | Film/Video | 2001 |
curator, Guggenheim Museum
New York, NY |
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