- The Passing of an Era: Boston Film/Video Foundation Bibliography
Anne-Marie Stein, former executive director of the Boston Film/Video Foundation (1988–2001), reviews BF/VF programs and operations and attributes the organization's closure to chronic undercapitalization, loss of major funders including MacArthur, constrained public support, limited fundraising capacity and short-term cash-flow pressures. She describes BF/VF's continuing education, exhibition (including the New England Film & Video Festival and Meet the Director), artists' resources and the Intervisions newsletter, and emphasizes lessons about organizational size, strategic planning, staff professional development and selective governance; she earned an MBA from Simmons and joined Northern Light Productions in April 2001.
- Ann Bennett People
Ann Bennett is an award winning filmmaker, journalist, and educator who studied American History and Documentary Production at Harvard College and began her film career at Blackside Productions in Boston; she has worked on historical documentaries for public television, cable networks, museums, and non-profit organizations. Her production credits include WGBH, HBO, WNET, History Channel, National Civil Rights Museum, and the Apollo Theater Foundation; she has received fellowships from CPB/PBS Producers Academy, America Film Institute Digital-Content Lab, Independent Feature Project Documentary Lab, and the Institute for Justice and Journalism at University of Southern California. She recently received a Master of Arts degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and now focuses on the nexus of history, culture, and technology within multi-cultural communities.
- Ellen Spiro People
Ellen Spiro is an internationally recognized documentary filmmaker whose work has been broadcast worldwide; her awards include two Rockefeller Fellowships, a National Endowment for the Arts grant and a Whitney Museum Independent Study Fellowship. Her films include Roam Sweet Home (1996), an international co-production of Channel Four UK and ITVS; DiAna's Hair Ego (1990), produced for $564 while at the Whitney Independent Study Program and the first 8mm consumer-video documentary shown on U.S. television, later screened at the Whitney Biennial and MoMA; and Greetings From Out Here (1993), which won first prize at the USA Film Festival and was invited to Sundance.
- Margarita De la Vega-Hurtado People
Margarita De la Vega-Hurtado is Executive Director of International Film Seminars, organizers of the Flaherty Film Seminar; she holds a Doctorate in American Culture with a focus on Film Studies from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where she was an Adjunct Professor. She has taught at the University of California in Santa Cruz (Merrill College) and has programmed, curated, and presented film programs in Latin American and Latino cinema, independent American cinema, and documentary cinema; she has published papers on those subjects as well as on Colombian cinema, Louis Malle, and Luis Bunuel.
- Andrea Polli People
Andrea Polli is a digital media artist addressing science and technology whose projects bring together artists and scientists; she has exhibited, performed and lectured internationally and is Associate Professor of Film and Media at Hunter College, New York City. She is a member of the Steering Committee for New York 2050, working with city planners, environmental scientists and historians on climate impacts; her Intuitive Ocusonics, a system for performing sound using eye movements, has been shown at V2 (Rotterdam) and SIGGRAPH '01 (Los Angeles).
- New York Foundation for the Arts Chronology
New York Foundation for the Arts announced video fellowships to Richard Bloes, Maxi Cohen, Dee Dee Halleck, Kathy High, Warrington Hudlin, Jull Kroesen, Shigeko Kubota, Michael Marton, Tony Oursler, Alex Roshuk, Martha Rosler, Tomiyo Sasaki and Matt Schlanger. Panelists were Dena Crane, Davidson Gigliotti, Ralph Hocking, Ardele Lister and Lynn Blumenthal.