Margarita De la Vega-Hurtado is the Executive Director of International Film Seminars, organizers of the Flaherty Film Seminar. She holds a Doctorate in American Culture, focusing on Film Studies, from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where she was an Adjunct Professor. She has also taught at the University of California in Santa Cruz, Merrill College. She has programmed, curated, and presented film programs in Latin American and Latino Cinema, Independent American Cinema and Documentary Cinema, as well as published papers on those subjects, plus Colombian cinema, Louis Malle, and Luis Bunuel. http://www.flahertyseminar.org/