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Nancy Abraham
Nancy Abraham is Senior Vice President of Documentary Programming for Home Box Office. She is responsible for the development and production of HBO Documentary Films that have garnered numerous awards over the years including Primetime Emmy Awards, News and Documentary ... More...
Lauren Aguirre
Lauren Aguirre has led NOVA’s general audience digital initiatives since the launch of its first web site in 1996. Over the past decade and a half, NOVA’s presence online has continued to expand through the creation of innovative content and ... More...
Jody Arlington
PUBLIC RELATIONS MANAGER
Jody Arlington is a communications strategist specializing in festival, entertainment and public education PR. She is Managing Partner of PR Collaborative and has managed publicity for SILVERDOCS for the last seven years. She has spearheaded in-market and ... 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, where she heads the Fair Use and Free Speech project. She is the author of, among ... More...
Julia Bacha
Julia Bacha is an award-winning filmmaker who has worked on films exhibited at the Sundance, Tribeca, Berlin, Jerusalem, and Dubai International Film Festivals, and broadcast on the BBC, HBO, Sundance, CBC, Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya television channels. Most recently, ... More...
Orlando Bagwell
Orlando Bagwell is Director of Freedom of Expression at the Ford Foundation in the Education, Creativity and Free Expression Program and is responsible for the Foundation’s global program in these fields. In 2004, Orlando Bagwell joined the Ford Foundation as ... More...
Jonathan Band
Jonathan Band helps shape the laws governing intellectual property and the Internet through a combination of legislative and appellate advocacy. He has represented clients with respect to the drafting of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA); database protection legislation; the ... More...
Amir Bar-Lev
THE TILLMAN STORY is Amir Bar-Lev’s third feature film. His directorial debut, Fighter, was released theatrically in the fall of 2001, aired on IFC, and was named one of the top documentaries of the year by Newsweek, Rolling Stone, The ... More...
Ray Barry
Director, AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center
Ray Barry has spearheaded AFI’s initiative for the rehabilitation of the Silver Theatre and creation of the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center—a state-of-the-art center for the moving image arts. For many years, ... More...
April Benavides
April Benavides, Director of Marketing, joined New Video in August 2008. After several years in book publishing, including a stint as Assistant Editor at HarperCollins Publishers, Benavides moved into film and television, working on the marketing and publicity for theatrical ... More...
Kevin Bennett
Discovery Communications veteran Kevin Bennett is Senior Vice President of Programming for Discovery Channel, a key position on the flagship’s senior leadership team. Bennett is responsible for planning, directing, and executing the programming strategy for Discovery and has oversight of ... More...
Mark Berridge
Hailing from a small coastal town in rural Australia, Mark Berridge was more interested in the stuffy confines of a movie theater than the sunny beaches of New South Wales. After graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree at Sydney ... More...
Francene Blythe
Francene J. Blythe has been in film and theater for over 25 years. Blythe is a member of Screen Actors Guild, has served on selection committees for scriptwriting and film with ReNew Media, Sundance Native Initiative Program, Native American Public ... More...
Matthew Boratenski
Matthew Boratenski is the AFI Screen Education Maryland Coordinator and AFI Silver Theatre Education Coordinator. He taught English, computer applications and social studies for 30 years in Montgomery County Public Schools and served as English Resource Teacher/Department Chair at Paint ... More...
Jon Bougher
Jon Bougher was born and raised in Weare, New Hampshire. After graduating from Ithaca College, he served as an AmeriCorps VISTA on the Tohono O'odham Nation, a Native American reservation outside Tucson. While at a tribal community college, he created ... More...
Phill Branch
?A graduate of the American Film Institute (M.F.A., Screenwriting), Mr. Branch is currently an Assistant Professor of English and Cinema Studies at his undergraduate alma mater Hampton University (B.A., Mass Media). He is a recent National Association of Television Program ... More...
Jim Browne
Jim Browne is the founder of Argot Pictures an independent film distribution company specializing in small scale theatrical releases for documentaries. Argot Pictures does not buy films from filmmakers, we work in partnership to create more awareness, press and box ... More...
Stephanie Bruder
Stephanie Bruder, Head of Digital Sales & Marketing, joined New Video in February 2007. Bruder spearheaded the Docurama Films affiliate sales program in 2007, and has been instrumental in the growth of the digital distribution arm of New Video, from ... More...
Clark Bunting
Clark Bunting is the president and general manager of Discovery Channel and president of Science Channel. The network, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary, is the leading non-fiction network in the world. Discovery reaches nearly 99 million subscribers in the ... More...
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