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Nancy Abraham
Nancy Abraham is Senior Vice President of Documentary Programming for HBO, responsible for the development and production of HBO Documentary Films which have garnered numerous awards over the years. Prior to 1995, Abraham was director of film acquisition for HBO’s ... More...
Rick Allen
Rick Allen has run successful companies in nearly every form of media, and helped to develop or extend some of the country’s most prestigious brands. Rick is the CEO of SnagFilms, which he helped to found with Ted Leonsis. The ... More...
Voleine Amilcar
Voleine Amilcar is Associate Director of Communications for ITVS—Independent Television Service. She leads the publicity and marketing communications efforts for PBS’s Emmy Award-winning series Independent Lens, the World Channel’s Global Voices series, and numerous online projects, including the hit online ... More...
Sarah Archambault
Sara Archambault is the Program Director at the LEF Foundation, and a Programmer and Co-Founder of the award-winning nonfiction film series The DocYard. Sara has an extensive professional history in production, programming, and foundation work. She was the Executive Director ... More...
Jody Arlington
PUBLIC RELATIONS MANAGER
Jody Arlington is a communications strategist specializing in festival, entertainment and public education PR. She is Owner of Arlington + Co PR and has managed publicity for SILVERDOCS for the last nine years. She has spearheaded in-market ... More...
Patricia Aufderheide
Patricia Aufderheide is University Professor in the School of Communication at American University in Washington, D.C. and director of the Center for Social Media there. She is the co-author with Peter Jaszi of Reclaiming Fair Use: How to Put Balance ... More...
Allison Beers
Allison Beers has been teaching English and Language Arts in Prince George's County Public Schools for the past 10 years. She has spent the last seven years at Eleanor Roosevelt High School, which has posted the highest pass rates on ... More...
Kim Bender
Kim Bender is the Director of Development at BAVC, responsible for the strategic planning and implementation of BAVC’s long- and short-term development and fundraising goals. Kim joined the BAVC team in 2011, bringing extensive leadership and development experience in the ... More...
Gabriel Benn
Gabriel "Asheru" Benn, M.Ed, is the Director of Arts Integration at Ballou HS. He is a Peabody award winning artist, educator, and founder of Guerilla Arts Ink, LLC, a local arts organization driven to provide innovative curriculum design, dynamic cultural/arts ... More...
Debbie Blum
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Steven Bognar
Steven Bognar first documentary feature, PERSONAL BELONGINGS, premiered at Sundance and was broadcast on the PBS series P.O.V. His short documentary WAITING FOR MARTY screened on the Independent Film Channel. His short films PICTURE DAY and GRAVEL both premiered at ... More...
Josh Braun
Josh Braun, born and raised in Manhattan, runs Submarine Entertainment, a hybrid sales and production company. Mr. Braun is dedicated to creating and producing innovative entertainment as well as representing feature films, documentaries and television properties as a producer’s rep ... More...
Stephanie Bruder
Stephanie Bruder oversees all marketing for New Video’s platform distribution businesses, including physical, digital, cable VOD and theatrical. Recent and upcoming releases include Oscar®-nominated documentary Hell and Back Again, Brazilian blockbuster Elite Squad: The Enemy Within, Being Elmo, Urbanized and ... More...
James Burns
James Burns is Co-founder and Chief Creative Technologist at Zeega, a non-profit inventing new forms of interactive storytelling, and a founder of metalab (at) Harvard, a research and teach unit dedicated to exploring and expanding the frontiers of networked culture ... More...
Tia Lessin & Carl Deal
TIA LESSIN & CARL DEAL (directors and producers) are Academy Award® nominated filmmakers who produced and directed Trouble the Water, winner of the Gotham Independent Film Award and the Sundance Film Festival’s Grand Jury Prize, and which was named one ... More...
Christina Carroll
Christina Carroll is originally from Baltimore and now resides in Philadelphia. She decided to reengage in the educational process by attending the Youth Employment Project in the fall of 2010. Following her experiences with the production and making of “Life: ... More...
Katy Chevigny
Katy Chevigny, Arts Engine’s co-founder and senior director, is a documentary filmmaker, entrepreneur and nonprofit manager. For fifteen years, Chevigny has advocated for a diverse media culture, one that illuminates important stories and amplifies voices not often heard in the ... More...
Leah Clapman
As Managing Editor-Education, Leah Clapman created NewsHour Extra, which provides articles, lesson plans, daily video activities, student-generated news stories and other tools to incorporate current events into social studies, science, and language arts curriculums. The site has won numerous awards, ... More...
Felix Contreras
Felix Contreras is a reporter and producer for NPR's Arts Information Unit, and he specializes in coverage of jazz, world music, and Latino arts and culture. Some recent stories include a profile of New York City based Colombian musicians rediscovering ... More...
Harry Costner
Harry Costner is the director of Network 21, a student-run TV studio and new media lab at Gunston Middle School in Arlington, VA. He has been involved with youth development through digital media for fifteen years. He has given successful ... More...
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