Regional and National Media Profile

Bio | Media Profile

(Partial list 1979-2006)

Employment

• President, Film Arts Foundation 2005
• Executive Director, Film Arts Foundation 1995-2004
• Co-director, Film Arts Foundation 1979-1995

Boards of Directors

• Board Member, Shadowlight Productions, (2006-present) San Francisco
• Board President, California Newsreel (1993-present), San Francisco
• Board Member, Foundation for Independent Video and Film (FIVF) (2002-2004).
• Board Member, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (1997- 2000)
• Board of Directors and Co-President, NAMAC, 1984-1991
• Board Member, Cine Accion, Latino independent producer organization, San Francisco (1981-1993)

Advisory Boards

• National Advisory Committee, Sundance Film Festival (1990-2002)
• Advisory Committee, Art Programming at The Exploratorium
• Advisory Committee, Frameline
• Advisory Committee, House of Docs, Sundance Film Festival. (2001-2003)
• Advisor, New York City media organizations on joint ownership of buildings south of Canal Street 2003-2004

Funding Panels

• Funding Panelist, National Latino Public Broadcasting
• Funding Panelist, Native American Public Broadcasting
• Funding Panelist, National Asian American Telecommunications Association
• Panelist, National Endowment for the Arts, 2000
• Panelist, National Endowment for the Humanities (multiple)
• Panelist, Rockefeller Foundation, Media Arts Fellowships, 1988
• Nominator, Rockefeller Foundation, Media Arts Fellowships ’89,’94,’02, ’03
• Resource person, media donor circle; Horizons Foundation, San Francisco 2004
• Marin Arts Council, juror, film and video fellowships, 2006

Film Festival Selection and Juries

• Mendocino International Film Festival, juror, documentary competition, 2006
• Silverdocs, juror for Feature Doc competition 2005 and panel moderator, 2005
• Resource Advisor and Participant, Squaw Valley Screenwriters Program 2000-2006
• Sonoma Valley Cinema Epicura Festival, juror, feature narratives, 2004-2006
• Narrative pre-selection, San Francisco International Film Festival, 2002-2004, 2006
• Frameline Festival, juror, documentary competition, 2002
• Nashville International Film Festival, juror, documentary competition 2002

Curator

• Curator, TRUE STORIES, monthly sneak preview series of new documentaries, Film Arts Foundation (2001-2006)
• Co-Founder, selection committee, Film Arts Festival of Independent Cinema 1984-2005

Interview Subject

• Why Fund Media? (Council on Foundations), chapter on development grants for film and video projects, published 2002
• The Urban Institute, Washington, DC, study on funding for media artists, 2003
• From Celluloid to Cyberspace: The Media Arts in the Changing Arts World, National Study of Artists Organizations, Rand Corporation, funded by the Rockefeller Foundation and Pew Charitable Trusts

Public Service and Advocacy

• Member, National Coalition of Independent Public Broadcasting Producers, to seat original Board of Directors of ITVS
• Member, National Coalition of Independent Public Broadcasting Producers (Oversight and Board Selection, ITVS) 1997- 2006.
• Member, Bay Area Committee for INPUT 2005.
• Member, Bay Area New Technologies and the Independent Producer, The Independent Initiative with KQED, BAVC, NAATA, ITVS, and NAMAC, “Deep Focus: A Report of the Future of Independent Media”
• Member, national committee, Public Media 2005
• Member and testimony for “Orphan Works,” a coalition to protect the rights of independent producers and copyright issues 2005
• Mentor, PBS Online. 2002-2004

Honors

• Directors Award, California Arts Council, one of five state arts leaders chosen, 2002
• Graduate, summer program, Stanford University School of Business, Institute for Social Innovation (2002)
• San Francisco Bay Guardian, “Local Hero,” 1996
• Wallace Alexander Gerbode Fellowship 1994

Numerous other panels, committees, boards in independent media 1979-2005)