TEAM
Isiah Babilonia
Anastasia Cipolla
Israel Ehrisman
Cameron Haffner
Robert Hawk
Matt Hoffman
Cíara Kain
Kirsten Larvick
Patrick Merentie
Oskar Miarka
Bella Racklin
Sandra Schulberg
Cheryl Williams
Eva Yuma
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Mike Mashon
Longtime head of the motion picture and recorded sound division of the Library of Congress where he was responsible for savings thousands of films.
Chaz Ebert
CEO of RogerEbert.com, head of Roger & Chaz Ebert Foundation, journalist, author, attorney and advocate.
Warrington Hudlin
Founder and head of Black Filmmaker Foundation; former co-chair of Museum of the Moving Image, film producer / director whose credits include Street Corner Stories, House Party, etc.
Terry Lawler
Former head of New York Women in Film & Television and its Women’s Film Preservation Fund, former head of The Film Fund, longtime indie film and LGBTQ+ advocate and activist.
Jill Godmilow
American filmmaker and advocate for Post-Realism in documentary whose credits include Waiting for the Moon (Sundance Grand Prize), What Farocki Taught, Far From Poland; Emeritus Professor of Film at the University of Notre Dame; founder, Laboratory for Icon & Idiom, Inc.
Peter Conheim
Archivist, film collector, restoration expert, and head of non-profit Cinema Preservation Alliance.
Gregory Nava
Director of groundbreaking movies El Norte, Selena, Mi Familia, etc., and member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; LatinX advocate and activist.
John Ptak
Board Member of National Film Preservation Board and Foundation, UCLA Film & Television Archive, and American Archive of Public Broadcasting Advisory Council; former co-chair of the American Film Institute Center and a longtime industry professional with stints at William Morris, ICM, and CAA; executive producer of Be Natural and the driving force behind numerous film restorations including James Blue’s Olive Trees of Justice.
Gerald Herman
Queer Cinema Index founding sponsor; founder, Hanoi Cinematheque; independent film producer whose credits include Be Natural, Circus of Books, Finding Phong, Making Montgomery Clift, After Louie, etc.
Ann Hu
Chinese American writer/producer/director, whose credits include Shadow Magic, Beauty Remains, Confetti; and former member of the Film at Lincoln Center Board of Directors.
David Leitner
SMPTE Motion Picture Chair/NYC, developer with Irwin Young of DuArt Lab’s 35mm blow-up technology; independent producer, director & DP whose credits include For All Mankind, Tree Man, Memories of Development, The Technical Writer, Vienna is Different: 50 Years After the Anschluss, and many more as DP.
Sandra Schulberg
IndieCollect President; IFP Founding Director; First Run Features co-founder; Adjunct Associate Professor, Columbia University graduate film division; former Sr. VP American Playhouse; indie producer whose credits include Exposed, Quills, Waiting for the Moon, Wildrose, Northern Lights, etc.
Michael Hausman
Filmhaus Foundation, independent and studio film producer whose credits include Brokeback Mountain, Amadeus, The Firm, Silkwood, Ragtime, Hair, Gangs of New York, Things Change, House of Games, Alambrista, etc.
Ted Hope
Former head of movie production at Amazon Studios, independent film producer whose credits include American Splendor, In the Bedroom, 21 Grams, The Laramie Project, Lovely & Amazing, Ride with the Devil, Happiness, The Ice Storm, Safe, Amateur, The Wedding Banquet, Simple Men, etc.
Lyda Kuth
Executive Director of the LEF Foundation whose mission is to fund documentary films; Board Member, Creative Capital Foundation; former member of Impact Partners; independent film director & producer whose credits include Love and Other Anxieties, Secundaria.
Amalie R. Rothschild
American documentary filmmaker who co-founded New Day Films, whose credits include Nana, Mom and Me, Woo Who? May Wilson, It happens To Us, Conversations with Willard Van Dyke, Painting The Town; also a world-renowned rock music photographer.
Catherine Wyler
Wyler / Rymland Productions; former program officer of the National Endowment for the Arts and Public Broadcasting System; and an independent and studio producer whose credits include Memphis Belle, Directed by William Wyler, etc.