Howard Besser is Director of NYU's Moving Image Archiving and Preservation Program. He directed music for The Word Orgy (Classical Studio NYU), as well as for That Beautiful Laugh. He has most recently appeared in That Beautiful Laugh (La Mama, etc.), and as the title character in Shakespeare's Cymbeline (Classical Studio NYU). Beck is an actor and music director, graduating from New York University with a BFA in drama and a minor in music this May. She received her BFA at the School of Art Institute of Chicago and her MFA in experimental animation at CalArts in 2008. Now based in New York, Ash is currently teaching and working in animation and title design. In 2010, she was awarded the Stellar Animation Award at the Black Maria Film Festival for her thesis film, Pickles for Nickels. Her stop-motion animations made of cardboard, clay, wire, tape, and a wide array of found objects have screened in festivals from Vienna to Los Angeles. She is currently learning to make bread.ĭanielle Ash is a multimedia animator, and 2010 recipient of the Orphan Film Symposium's Helen Hill Award. She also studied acting in New York and in 2004 received a Rockefeller Grant for Media Artists. His 'silent cine tip o da day,' a daily Twitter feed about online early film resources can be followed García Ascot is a filmmaker who studied directing at Universidad Autónoma Nacional de México and its Center for Cinematographic Studies. Michael Aronson is Director of Cinema Studies at the University of Oregon.

He is author of Projecting Illusion (1995), Hitchcock's Romantic Irony (2007), coauthor of Islamicate Cultures of Bombay Cinema (2009), and coeditor of the Hitchcock Annual, the journal of Hitchcock Studies, and six books in the fields of film theory and aesthetics.

Richard Allen is Professor and Chair of Cinema Studies at New York University. While earning her MFA at UCLA, she developed a community-based documentary workshop for teenagers through California State, Los Angeles. She also created a writers' workshop at Southwestern Community College. She acted in Bernard Nicolas's film Daydream Therapy (1977). Gay Abel-Bey is Executive Director of Production Studies for NYU Tisch School of the Arts' Undergraduate Division of Film & Television.

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