HOLLIS GILLESPIE

Hollis Gillespie is a regular commentator on NPR's All Things Considered and the award-winning writer of "Mood Swing," a column published in Creative Loafing, Atlanta's major alternative weekly.  Gillespie has been a guest on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and is the author of Bleachy-Haired Honky Bitch, which was chosen as a breakout book by Amazon.com in 2004. She lives in Atlanta with her three-year-old daughter.

 

Lawrence Inglee

Lawrence Inglee is Vice President of the Mark Gordon Company (Saving Private Ryan, The Day After Tomorrow).

 

MARK KITCHELL

Mark Kitchell is a veteran documentary filmmaker best known for Berkeley in the Sixties -- which was nominated for an Oscar, won other major awards, and has become a well-loved classic.  Kitchell grew up in San Francisco in the '60s. While at NYU film school, Kitchell made his first doc, about the making of The Godfather Part II and its impact on his Lower East Side neighbors, which garnered a student Academy Award nod. After seven years toiling in Hollywood, he returned to his first love, documentary, and came back to the Bay Area where he made Berkeley. The film took ten years, a host of volunteers, and a huge grassroots fundraising effort, so Kitchell knows firsthand the struggles of distribution. He’s also worked in television and independent productions and is currently working on a six-hour series that promises to be the first major history of the environmental movement.

DAVID KOPPLE

David Kopple received his B.A. in Literature from the University of California San Diego in 1991 and his M.A. in English from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1995. He began his film career as a production assistant and assistant director at Roger Corman’s Concorde/New Horizons. After stints at Cinergi Productions, Jerry Bruckheimer Films and Live Entertainment,  Kopple came to The Gersh Agency in 1997. Currently, he is a motion picture literary agent at the agency, representing screenwriters and directors. Kopple is also the Co-Chair of The Jewish Federation’s Entertainment Division Steering Committee and a member of the Los Angeles Conservancy. He and his wife Robin live in Los Angeles with their three cats.

 

Jérôme Rota (aka "Gej")

The original designer of DivX technology, Gej is a brilliant Compositing Infographist and has extensive knowledge of video technologies. He has been involved in computing, graphics and digital video since the age of six, and was formerly Technical Director and Chief Infographist for a commercial design firm. Internationally known as a leading video technology enthusiast and developer of cutting edge video technology, Gej has extensive academic training both in technical electronics and cinema.

HOLLY WILLIS

Holly Willis is the author of New Digital Cinema: Reinventing the Moving Image (Wallflower Press) and former editor of RES Magazine, a bimonthly publication devoted to experiments in film, video and new media. She co-curated RESFEST, a traveling festival of digital media, for four years, and currently teaches classes on film, video and new media at the University of Southern California while writing for various publications on a freelance basis and co-curating USC’s “Blur and Sharpen” screening series.