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Nights is an experimental documentary feature movie, over 10 years in production. A contemporary 1001 Nights, including stories from the Levant from the 9th - 20th centuries, Nights explores the power and voice of the narrative in stories believable and unbelievable.

Grahame Weinbren is the editor of the Millennium Film Journal, a journal of avant-garde film, video and works in other image technologies. Since 1990 he has been a visiting professor for photography und computer arts at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Weinbren is a pioneer of interactivity; he has been making films since the early 1970s, and has edited features, documentaries, music videos, and commercials. He has published widely on interactivity and cinema, and has lectured on interactivity and cinema throughout the world.

Since the mid 1970s, Anthony Forma has collaborated as Director of Photography with many documentary filmmakers and artists. Before moving to Budapest, Hungary in 1989, Forma had been the DP for the Indie filmmaker Ross Spears on his feature documentaries, The Electric Valley, Long Shadows and Agee (Academy Award Nominee Best Documentary). Last year, Forma was principal DP for two feature Dirty Business: Clean Coal and Rediscovering Alexander Hamilton.

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.