- Ross McElwee People
Filmmaker Ross McElwee’s films have screened at festivals in Berlin, London, Vienna, Rotterdam, Florence, Sydney and Wellington; retrospectives have been held at the Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the American Museum of the Moving Image (New York) and …tats généraux du film documentaire. He has received fellowships and grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the American Film Institute, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Massachusetts Arts Council. Since 1986 he has taught filmmaking at Harvard University, where he is a professor in the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies.
- New York State Council on the Arts Annual Report 1969-70 Groups
The report documents NYSCA-supported film and media activities including a Young Filmmakers Albany South End workshop sponsored by Upper Hudson Library Federation, Aldo Tambellini working with elementary students at a television studio, and high school students screening films in Yorktown. It records Elaine Summers’ Electric Kinetic Gymnasium at C.W. Post College on Long Island planned to use twenty-four projectors. The Young Filmmakers Foundation and the Film Club on Rivington Street were chosen for pilot financial assistance; the report includes quotations from Howard Taubman and W. McNeil Lowry.
- Peter Hutton People
Peter Hutton, B.F.A., M.F.A. from the San Francisco Art Institute, taught at Hampshire College, Harvard University and SUNY Purchase; since 1984 he has been Professor of Film at Bard College. He is a filmmaker who has produced more than 20 films, mostly portraits of cities and landscapes worldwide; his work has been shown in major museums and festivals in the United States and Europe, including the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Biennial (1985, 1991, 1995, 2004). Since 1986 he has continued a series of landscape portraits of the Hudson River Valley and is developing projects in Bangladesh and Iceland; his grants include the National Endowment for the Arts, DAAD Berliner, Rockefeller Foundation, Dutch Film Critics Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship.
- Dave Ryan People
Ryan received a BA in Communication Arts from Taylor University and a Master of Fine Arts in Film from Ohio University. He has taught at Pittsburgh Filmmakers, Thiel College, Taylor University and Ohio University. He has been film editor for commercial television, and Director of Operations at Pitts…
- Penny Lane and Brian Frye People
Penny Lane is an independent filmmaker living in western Massachusetts; her collaborative and solo experimental, narrative and documentary videos have screened at AFI FEST, Int'l Film Festival Rotterdam, San Francisco and Seattle Int'l Film Festivals, Women in the Director's Chair, Santa Fe Art Institute, MOMA, and DUMBO Art Under the Bridge. She earned an MFA in Integrated Electronic Arts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a BA in American Culture at Vassar College; from 2003–5 she was a core producer of the Hudson-Mohawk Independent Media Center and worked with youth at Children's Media Project and The Ark, Inc. She is a visiting assistant professor of video at Hampshire College and received a 2007 Finishing Funds award from the Experimental Television Center.
- Bob Harris People
Bob Harris holds a BA from Colgate University and an MFA from the University of California, San Diego; he served as Artistic Director of the NY State Education Department's Summer School of the Media Arts and taught at Ithaca College, UCSD, and Palomar College. He helped found the Video Department at Anthology Film Archives, was Video Curator at Anthology and PS #1 in Queens, NY from 1979 to 1986, and founded at Anthology the first video preservation project in the nation; as a film and video maker his work, including COYOTE, has won festival awards and been shown at institutions such as the Whitney Museum of American Art, Museo Laboratorio di Arte Contemporanea in Rome, Exit Art, Anthology Film Archives, and Palais de Beux Arts in Brussels.