Barbara Kopple is a two-time Academy Award winning filmmaker, whose documentaries include the legendary Harlan County USA, about the 1974 Kentucky mine workers strike and the critically acclaimed Shut up and Sing about the Dixie Chicks and the political fallout from their criticism of the President Bush. Barbara has been awarded the Human Rights Watch Film Festival Lifetime Achievement Award, Los Angeles Film Critics Award, National Society of Film Critics Award, the SilverDocs/Charles Guggenheim Award, New York Women in Film & Television Muse Award, and the Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize.
Howard Zinn Howard Zinn is a historian, playwright, and social activist, best known for his book A People’s History of the United States. He was a shipyard worker and Air Force bombardier before he went to college under the GI Bill and received his Ph.D. from Columbia University. In 1956, he became a professor at Spelman College in Atlanta, a school for black women, where he soon became involved in the Civil rights movement, which he participated in as an adviser to the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and chronicled, in his book SNCC: The New Abolitionists. Zinn collaborated with historian Staughton Lynd and mentored a young student named Alice Walker. When he was fired in 1963 for insubordination related to his protest work, he moved to Boston University, where he became a leading critic of the Vietnam War. Zinn’s plays include Emma, and Rebel Voices.
Matt O’Neill is an Emmy-Award winning documentary filmmaker who works at DCTV and has made films for HBO, PBS, the Discovery Channels and others. O’Neill won a Columbia DuPont Award and three Primetime Emmy Awards for the 2006 documentary he produced and directed with Jon Alpert for HBO – Baghdad ER. Other programs he has produced and directed include James GAndolfini’s Alive Day Memories, Bolivia: Coca and the Congressman, To Have and Have Not: The Changing Face of China and Turkey’s Tigers for the PBS series Wide Angle; Siberian Adoption Story for the Discovery Health Channel and Venezuela: Revolution in Progress for the Discovery Times Channel.
Wendy Cohen is the Manager of Community and Alliances at Participant Productions, whose films include Syriana, Good Night and Good Luck, An Inconvenient Truth, and the Kite Runner. Wendy is the co-founder and National Director of Screening Liberally, which brings free, advance screenings of socially conscious films and filmmakers, directors and industry insiders to lead post-screening discussions. Before joining the Participant family, Wendy was the Community Manager at the Huffington Post. Born and raised in Montreal, Wendy came to New York to be the Outreach Coordinator for Arts Engine and the Media That Matters film festival. She was research and creative assistant for The Art of the Documentary (New Riders Press, 2005), part of the DocuClub screening committee and is a guest curator for festivals and screening series around New York. Wendy is currently a co-chair on the Urban Pathways Young Professional Board and associate producing a documentary film.
Chesa Boudin is a Camp Kinderland alumn, jouranlist, activist and the author of Letters From Young Activists: Today’s Young Rebels Speak Out, (Nation Books, 2005), and a co-author of The Venezuelan Revolution: 100 Questions – 100 Answers (Thunder’s Mouth Press). Chesa has been profiled in the New York Times, CNN and his writing has appeared in The Nation, Salon, and Topic Magazine. He lived in Venezuela while researching Latin American public policy as part of his master’s degree from Oxford University and is currently writing a book about the shift to the left in Latin America through his own first hand experiences traveling through the region.
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Olivia Greer is a producer at Culture Project, overseeing Women Center Stage, an annual multi-disciplinary arts festival, and directs EMANCIPATE, a project that connects women musicians who are activists in their communities. Olivia is an experienced consultant in development, strategy and communications in arts, foundation and social justice organizations. She has worked as an activist in labor, civil rights and other struggles, and as a writer and journalist – co-authoring Actions Speak Louder Than Bumper Stickers, released by Nation Books in fall 2006, and contributing articles to Alternet and openDemocracy. She is also a singer and songwriter, the recipient of 2 ASCAPlus awards for emerging songwriters. She has released two records to date, 4 Songs (2004) and The Park Slope Sessions (2005), and is currently at work on her first full-length record
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