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Jane Weinstock graduated from Princeton University and attended graduate programs at the Slade, NYU and the Paris Film Program. She has taught and written about film and about contemporary art at various institutions including NYU, the University of California Los Angeles and Cal Arts. She has written about such artists as Sally Potter, John Cassavetes, Martha Rosler, Barbara Kruger, and Christian Boltanski. She was also the film and video curator of Difference: On Representation and Sexuality at the New Museum in New York and at the ICA in London. Weinstock began filmmaking with Sigmund Freud's Dora and went on to make Voices of Silence (for German Television) and The Clean Up. Weinstock participated in the Sundance Directors Lab and then went on to write and direct feature films. Her first feature Easy, premiered at the Toronto Film Festival and was in Dramatic Competition at the Sundance Film Festival. She will be presenting her latest film, The Moment, which she co-wrote.  She currently lives and works in Los Angeles.

This film-screening series, sponsored by the Film Institute at Montclair State, is a weekly program for MSU students and the public. The program features contemporary filmmakers who come to speak about their work and profession in an open forum that invites audience members to ask questions and hear personalized inside stories. Admission is free.