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• Michael Camoin People

  Mike Camoin is an Albany-based filmmaker whose documentaries Inside the Blue Line and How to Make an Adirondack Packbasket focus on diminishing Adirondack culture; Inside the Blue Line won Best Short Documentary at the 1996 NYS Capital Film Slam and a Certificate of Merit at the 38th Rochester International Amateur Film Festival. Each program aired on PBS-TV stations across the northeast and was self-distributed. Camoin founded Upstate Independents and the Albany-AIVF Salon (1995), was voted Best Local Filmmaker by Metroland (1999), and his company Videos For Change, LLC was selected by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Incubator in Troy, NY where projects including streaming media work are in development; he holds a Masters in Social Work from the State University of New York at Albany.

• Jem Cohen People

  Jem Cohen is a Brooklyn-based director and cameraman whose 17-year practice is built from an archive of street footage, portraits and sound; he shoots in many locations and blends documentary, narrative and experimental approaches. BENJAMIN SMOKE (co-directed with Peter Sillen) premiered at the Berlin Film Festival and won 1st prize at the DoubleTake Documentary Fest, and LOST BOOK FOUND won prizes at Locarno. His work has been broadcast by BBC, PBS, Planete and The Sundance Channel, is held by MoMA and the Whitney, and he is a Rockefeller and Guggenheim fellow.

• Paul Devlin People

  Paul Devlin is a director, producer, editor and camera and a five-time Emmy winner for work on NBC's Olympics and CBS's Tour de France. His documentary Power Trip screened in 60 countries, received US theatrical distribution and aired on PBS's Independent Lens; it was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award and won 10 festival awards including top prizes at Berlin, Hot Docs (Toronto) and Florida. He directed SlamNation about the National Poetry Slam (theatrical; HBO/Cinemax and Encore/Starz), lists BLAST and Through the Storm as current projects, and served as producing editor on FREESTYLE: The Art of Rhyme (VH1; Special Jury Award, Florida Film Festival); his editing credits include sports broadcasts such as CBS's Super Bowls and ABC/ESPN's World Cup Soccer.

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• David Sampliner People

  David Sampliner is a filmmaker; his first feature, Dirty Work, was co-directed with Tim Nackashi and screened at Sundance. He directed and shot Turning Points, an award-winning film on LGBT ordination in the Presbyterian Church, and co-directed Art, Architecture, and Innovation, a documentary about the Guggenheim Museum airing on Channel 13 in New York. His latest feature, My Own Man, is a personal film on manhood that he is directing, editing, writing, and shooting on super-16mm film; he grew up in Shaker Heights, Ohio, and now lives in Manhattan.

• Matthew Schlanger People

  Matthew Schlanger exhibited in the 1987 Whitney Biennial and at PS1, The Kitchen and Monte Video; his work is in the collections of Monte Video, Donnell Media Center (New York Public Library) and The Kitchen. He taught video production and art at the School of Visual Arts (Film Department, MFA Computer Art) and lectured at SUNY, Rutgers, Ithaca College and AFI Los Angeles. He built synthesizers for the Experimental Television Center and Design Lab; since 1995 he leads Black Hammer Productions, producing interactive media and games including the GBA title I Spy Challenger.