Lise Raven is an award-winning filmmaker who enjoys making both narrative and documentary films. Raven’s first feature film, LOW, screened in over 30 international film festivals. In 1995 she helped to found the SLAMDANCE FILM FESTIVAL, after which she wrote and directed three films for the SHOWTIME Cable network. In 2000 Raven moved to Berlin, Germany after being awarded the DAAD Berliner Künstlerprogramm Artist Residency in Film. While in Europe, Raven’s feature film project, Snipe, was funded by the Irish Film Board. In 2011 she worked with the Philadelphia Museum of Art to create a short video which screened in the ROBERTO CAPUCCI: ART INTO FASHION exhibition. KINDERWALD is the second part of THE KINDERWALD TRILOGY, a trilogy of films that are inspired by fairy tales about children lost in the woods. The first film, KINDERWALD: Neighbors, was shot in 2011. Raven is an Assistant Professor at Drexel University, in the Department of Cinema and Television.
Her indiegogo project is at this link: www.indiegogo.com/kinderwald-film

Director Paul Lovelace and Jessica Wolfson present their film Radio Unnameable.  Legendary radio personality Bob Fass revolutionized late night FM radio by serving as a cultural hub for music, politics and audience participation for nearly 50 years. Long before today’s innovations in social media, Fass utilized the airwaves for mobilization encouraging luminaries and ordinary listeners to talk openly and take the program in surprising directions. Radio Unnameable is a visual and aural collage that pulls from Bob Fass’s immense archive of audio from his program, film, photographs, and video that has been sitting dormant until now.  The Film Directors and Bob Fass will be in attendance.
www.radiounnameablemovie.com/
Co-sponsored by the Montclair Film Festival and the Film Program.

Hartley’s most recent film, Meanwhile, featured at the 2012 Viennale, was released worldwide in 2012 through his own online sales and distribution channel, www.possiblefilms.com and, simultaneously, on iTunes. 

His other films include: Simple Men (Official Selection at Cannes in 1992), Flirt (which opened Sundance in 1997), The Book of Life (1998), and No Such Thing (also, premiered at Cannes in 2001). 

He has won awards at the Sundance Film Festival for his film Trust in 1991, the Tokyo International Film Festival for Amateur in 1994, the Cannes International Film Festival for Henry Fool in 1998, and the “Premi Noves Visions” award at the Sitges International Film Festival in Spain for The Girl from Monday in 2005.

There have been retrospectives of his work in Rotterdam, New York, Spain, Norway, Korea, Argentina, and Poland. 

Pola Rapaport has been involved in the film industry as a writer, sound editor, director and producer for over 20 years. Her work includes these films: Hair: Let the Sun Shine In (2007), a celebration of the revolutionary hippie musical Hair, Rapaport’s work spans the boundaries between fiction and documentary,  Writer of O, a docudrama about the secretive author of the erotic novel Story of O (2005); Family Secret, the story of the discovery of her long-lost secret Romanian brother (2000), have been screened at world-wide festivals.

Meet Jonas Thaler SVP of Post Production for Walden Media  Ben Baker, Executive Producer, Sixteen19, a post production facility New York ~ London ~ Los Angeles ~ New Orleans

Filmmakers: Till Schauder, and Sara Nodjoumi Co-sponsored with Global Education and THE IRAN JOB follows American basketball player Kevin Sheppard as he accepts a job to play in one of the world’s most feared countries: Iran.
With tensions running high between Iran and the West, Kevin tries to separate sports from politics only to find that politics is impossible to escape in Iran.
Along the way he forms an unlikely alliance with three outspoken Iranian women. Thanks to these women, his apartment turns into an oasis of free speech, where they discuss everything from politics to religion to gender roles.
Kevin’s season in Iran culminates in something much bigger than basketball: the uprising and subsequent suppression of Iran’s reformist Green Movement – a powerful prelude to the sweeping changes across the Middle East in the wake of the Arab Spring. will attend. Co-sponsored by the Film Program and Global Education.
See the trailer here: www.theiranjob.com