Scorsese worked as co-supervising editor of the documentary Woodstock in 1970 and won critical and popular acclaim for his film Mean Streets in 1973. That project was followed by Taxi Driver in 1976, which won the International Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. He later directed New York, New York in 1977 and Raging Bull in 1980, which won Academy Award Nominations for Best Film and Best Director.

Scorsese directed The Color of Money, The Last Temptation of Christ, Goodfellas, Cape Fear, and The Age of Innocence, among other films. Italianamerican, his first documentary film, was screened at Full Frame (DDFF) in 1999 as part of the curated program, Great Films of the 20th Century.

Il Mio Viaggio In Italia, an epic documentary that affectionately chronicles his love for Italian Cinema, was screened at the 2002 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, as was The Neighborhood, created for the 9/11 Madison Square Garden fundraiser. Full Frame screened a compilation from his documentary series, The Blues in 2003. Scorsese's The Aviator screened to audiences worldwide in 2004 to much acclaim. He joins Full Frame in 2005 to present a tribute to Vittorio De Seta and to participate in An Evening with Martin Scorsese.

Her credits as curator and editor of exhibitions and catalogs include John Ford: An American Master (1994), The Dawn of Sound (1989), Rediscovering French Film (1983), and Jean-Luc Godard: Son+Image (1992), which received the College Art Association's Alfred H. Barr, Jr. Award as the outstanding museum scholarly publication of 1992-93. She has produced tributes to Vincent Minnelli, Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Gregory Peck and Clint Eastwood as well as producing the premiere re-release of Gone with the Wind in 1989.

Ms. Bandy sits on the boards of such groups as the American Federation of Arts, the International Federation of Film Archives, the National Film Preservation Board and is a panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. She is the co-author of The Hidden God, Film and Faith and was the Guest Curator at the 1999 Full Frame (DDFF) Documentary Film Festival and of the 2004 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival.

His experimental documentary films, The Sweetest Sound (2001), Nobody's Business (1996), Intimate Stranger (1991), and The Family Album (1986), have been broadcast all over the world, and have received awards and prizes at many major international film festivals. Berliner was the Guest Curator at the 2001 Full Frame (DDFF) Documentary Film Festival.

A long-time friend of Full Frame, Ted Bogosian has been directing, producing and writing documentaries, network drama and independent films for three decades.  His credits include dozens of long-form programs for PBS, Discovery and other outlets, including The New York Times, as well as hour-long dramas for HBO, Fox and the WB. Bogosian has been recognized with many important prizes, including multiple Emmy nominations and one Emmy award, the Chicago Film Festival Gold Plaque, and the Writer's Guild Award for Achievement in Documentary.

His documentary The Press Secretary opened the 2001 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, and was awarded top honors by Full Frame, the National Press Club and the White House Photographers Association. His hybrid drama/documentary 50/50, executive produced by Barry Levinson and Tom Fontana and presented by Danny DeVito, was shown at Full Frame in 2004 in a controversial "work-in-progress" event.  

Bogosian is a member of the Director's Guild of America and last year was elected to a two-year term on the DGA's Board of Directors.  He was elected in 2006 to the DGA's Eastern Council, chaired by Stephen Soderbergh, serves on the DGA's PAC Leadership Council, co-chaired by Taylor Hackford and Paris Barclay, and chairs a DGA Student Film Awards committee. He is also a member of the Writer's Guild of America, East. He is teaching a master class in directing film and television drama this semester at Duke University's Film/Video/Digital Program.  He also serves on the Full Frame Advisory Board.

Burnett is the renowned independent director of films exploring the everyday life of black families and communities in historical and modern day settings. A native of Vicksburg, Mississippi, Burnett was raised in Los Angeles, California and attended Los Angeles Community College and UCLA Film School. He is currently working on a film about the life of Nat Turner. That film was screened as a work in progress at the 2002 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival.

Burnett's other films include Nightjohn (1996), Killer of Sheep (1977), My Brother's Wedding (1983), Bless Their Little Hearts (1984), To Sleep with Anger (1990), and The Glass Shield (1994). He won the Critic's Award at the 1977 Berlin film festival for Killer of Sheep. Burnett's film, Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property, was shown as a work-in-progress at the 2003 Full Frame Documentary film festival and as a completed work in 2004.

His talents are far-reaching, including writing, producing, editing, and shooting his films, in addition to his directorial duties. Burnett has been called "the most gifted and important Black filmmaker this country ever had." In 1997, his films were showcased by the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival.

After studying film at Hampshire College, Burns began his career as a documentary filmmaker. He is widely acclaimed for directing and producing the landmark television series The Civil War, which was the highest rated series in the history of American Public Television and attracted an audience of 40 million during its premiere in 1990. This series was honored with more than forty major film and television awards, including two Emmy Awards and two Grammy awards.

Burns' numerous contributions to documentary have included films on Huey Long, Brooklyn Bridge, and The Statue of Liberty (the latter two were nominated for Academy Awards.) He was also the director, producer, co-writer, chief cinematographer, and executive producer of the successful Public Television series Baseball.

Most recently, he has begun releasing a series of filmed biographies on noteworthy Americans. The first biography centered on the life of Thomas Jefferson, followed by Lewis and Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery, as well as documentaries focusing on the lives of Frank Lloyd Wright and Susan B. Anthony. In 2001, he completed a critically acclaimed series entitled Jazz and in January 2002, his film on the life of Mark Twain premiered on Public Television.

Frank Lloyd Wright and portions of Jazz were showcased at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, as was his powerful Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson. Ken Burns is the recipient of the 2005 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival Career Award.

A noted documentary filmmaker, Burns graduated from Columbia College (1978), summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa with a BA in English literature. He then went on to receive a BA/MA in English literature at Cambridge University in 1980; and later, was a Ph.D. candidate at Columbia University in English Literature.

Burns made his mark on the documentary film world with the award winning PBS series The Civil War (1990), which he produced with his brother Ken and wrote with Geoffrey C. Ward. The series garnered Burns numerous awards, including Emmys for producing and writing, a Christopher Award, and Producer of the Year Award from the Producer's Guild of America. Subsequently, he directed Coney Island (1991), which was named by Time magazine as one of the top ten television programs of 1991.

In 1992, he wrote and directed The Donner Party, the winner of the Writer's Guild of America Award for Outstanding Achievement of 1993. He also produced a six hour documentary series titled, The Way West, another winner of the Writers Guild of America Award for Outstanding Achievement.

Ric and his partner Lisa Ades produced the highly acclaimed series for American Experience entitled New York: A Documentary Film, which was screened in part at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. In 2002, his latest film, Ansel Adams, premiered at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. Ric Burns is the recipient of the 2005 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival Career Award.

Hodding Carter III, a native of New Orleans who spent half his life in Mississippi and the other half in various political, media and non-profit enterprises along America’s East Coast, was appointed University Professor of Leadership and Public Policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, in January 2006.

Carter came to that post after almost eight years as president and CEO of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation in Miami. Knight is a $2 billion foundation concerned with community and civic development in selected American communities and the furtherance of press freedom and improvement of press performance at home and abroad.

A graduate of Greenville, Mississippi’s E.E. Bass High School, he graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School in 1957, and returned to Greenville and his family’s daily newspaper in 1959 after two years as a United States Marine Corps lieutenant. While there, he won the national professional journalism society’s award for editorial writing in 1961 and a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard for l965-66. He was variously reporter, managing editor and editor/associate publisher during his 17 years at the paper. His father, Hodding Carter Jr., founded the paper in 1936, won a Pulitzer Prize for editorials on racial tolerance in 1946 and wrote over 20 books centered on the South and its history.

Carter became actively engaged with racial and political reform efforts in Mississippi in the mid-l960s. In 1968 he was co-chair of the biracial delegation that ousted the state’s white regular Democratic Party delegation at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. He worked in Lyndon Johnson’s presidential campaign in Washington in 1964 and Jimmy Carter’s campaign in Atlanta in 1976. Following Carter’s victory, he was named assistant secretary of State for Public Affairs and State Department spokesman.

He left that job in l980 and went into news and public affairs television. Working variously as anchor, commentator, production company president and reporter over the next 14 years, he won four national Emmys and the Edward R. Murrow Award for best foreign documentary. During the same period he was a regular panelist on This Week with David Brinkley, an op-ed columnist for the Wall Street Journal and frequent contributor to magazines and newspapers across the country. At one time or another he worked on air for or with PBS, CNN, NBC, ABC, BBC and CBC.

In l994 he was named to the tenured post of Knight Professor of Public Affairs Journalism at the University of Maryland, College Park, which he resigned when named president of Knight Foundation in 1998.

Carter has written two books and contributed to nine others. A trustee of Princeton University over a 15 year period, he is currently on the boards of The Century Foundation, the Center for Public Integrity, the Enterprise Corporation of the Delta, the Foundation for the Mid-South and seven Dreyfus Corporation mutual funds. Past board memberships include Independent Sector, the Japan Society, the American Committee on US-Soviet Relations, the George C. Marshall Foundation, the American Council of Young Political Leaders, the Atlantic Council, the Center for International Journalists, the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and the Action Council for Peace in the Balkans. He has been awarded nine honorary degrees.

He married Patricia Derian---creator of the job of Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights under President Carter –in 1978. They have seven children and 12-grandchildren between them. They spend their summer vacations on Islesboro, Maine. Carter, an active Episcopalian, is a communicant of Chapel of the Cross in Chapel Hill.

While he was attending the University of Florida, Demme began writing film reviews, which resulted in his doing publicity work for various movie companies. In 1969, he moved to London, where he began producing television commercials that later led to his directing debut in 1974.

Demme soon attracted critics' attention for his ingenuity and style in Citizens Band/Handle with Care in 1977, Last Embrace in 1979, and Melvin and Howard in 1980. Demme received wide acclaim for directing Married to the Mob in 1988 and has also directed a variety of accomplished documentaries since 1984, ranging on topics from Haiti to his clergyman cousin, and he frequently works with the same crew. Demme's 1991 Academy-award winning thriller, The Silence of the Lambs, enjoyed both critical and popular acclaim and he has since been involved in producing Amos & Andrew and Philadelphia.

In 1998, he directed the film Beloved. In 2002 he directed and produced The Truth about Charlie, a remake of the classic thriller Charade. He presented the documentary, The Agronomist, as a work-in-progress at the 2003 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, and in 2004, he directed The Manchurian Candidate

Ariel Dorfman, the Chilean author of numerous works of fictions, plays, poems, essays and films in both Spanish and English, has been called a "literary grandmaster" (Time) and "one of the greatest living Latin American novelists" (Newsweek). His books have been translated into over 30 languages and received many international prizes. Among his plays — performed in more than one hundred countries — are Death and the Maiden, which has won dozens of best play awards around the world, including England's Olivier award for Best Play. It was also produced on Broadway, with Glenn Close (Tony award), Richard Dreyfuss and Gene Hackman, directed by Mike Nichols, and made into a feature film by Roman Polanski with Sigourney Weaver and Ben Kingsley (co-written by Dorfman). Other plays are Reader (opened at The Traverse at the Edinburgh Festival) and Widows (written with Tony Kushner, opened at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles), both of which have won Kennedy Center awards, and the upcoming Purgatorio, which opened at the Seattle Rep in 2005.

He is the first foreign author to be commissioned to write a play, The Other Side, for the New National Theatre in Tokyo, which premiered in early 2004 in Japan and then was produced off-Broadway in 2005, starring Rosemary Harris and John Cullum. It will soon be transferred to London's West End by Sir Peter Hall. Among the films he has scripted, with his eldest son Rodrigo, are Deadline (based on his poems, for Channel Four in England, with the voices of Bono and Emma Thompson, and Art Malik in the main role) and Prisoners in Time (for the BBC, with John Hurt) which won best screenplay award in Great Britain for the year 1996, as well as a short film they co-wrote and co-directed, My House is On Fire, shown at the Film Festivals of Toronto, Telluride and Edinburgh.

Dorfman's fiction includes the novels Mascara, Hard Rain, The Last Song of Manuel Sendero, Konfidenz, The Nanny and the Iceberg, as well as Blake's Therapy, which Nobel prize winner José Saramago suggested would be the novel Kafka would write if he were alive today and that is being developed as a film by Salma Hayek. In 2003, he published a novel for young adults, Burning City, co-authored with his youngest son, Joaquin — the basis for a screenplay. His poems, In Case of Fire in a Foreign Land, have inspired cantatas, picture exhibitions and been read publicly by Meryl Streep, Peggy Ashcroft, John Malkovich, Harold Pinter, Kevin Kline and many others. His memoir Heading South, Looking North: A Bilingual Journey, has won significant international recognition and awards. In January 2004, National Geographic will publish his travel book, Desert Memories: Journeys through the Chilean North.

His present projects are an independent film based on a seven-part miniseries he wrote with both his sons, Rodrigo and Joaquin, for HBO and a documentary about his life to be filmed by the award-winning director of Shake Hands with the Devil, Peter Raymont. He has also just completed the libretto for a musical, Dancing with Shadows, with music and lyrics by Eric Woolfson, lead composer of the Alan Parsons Project, and is finishing a new play, In the Dark, commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company for its 2007 season.

Ewing is the co-founder of the creative technology company Red Hat and served as its Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer until December 1999. He is currently committed to the advancement of open source and serves on the board of the Center for the Public Domain. He is an avid mountaineer and a high country film and photography enthusiast.

Chris Hegedus' most recent film for HBO, Elaine Stritch at Liberty, premiered at the 2004 Full Frame Festival, and won two Primetime Emmy Awards. She received the 2002 Directors Guild Award (DGA) for her film Startup.com (co-directed with Jehane Noujaim).

In 1976, Hegedus began her long collaboration with D. A. Pennebaker editing footage of the legendary confrontation between Norman Mailer and leaders of the feminist movement into the feature-length film, Town Bloody Hall. In 1977, they co-directed The Energy War, a five-hour political series for PBS that chronicled one of the fiercest legislative battles in Congress.

Hegedus and Pennebaker's film subjects have ranged from auto-entrepreneur John DeLorean, to Carol Burnett in Moon Over Broadway, to musicians, Depeche Mode, Wilson Pickett, Eliot Carter, Branford Marsalis and most recently Bruce Springsteen. They were nominated for an Academy Award and received the National Board of Review award for The War Room, a behind-the-scenes view of Bill Clinton's 1992 Presidential campaign.

In 2003, their soul music film, Only the Strong Survive, was screened at the Cannes Film festival and distributed by Miramax films. Chris' latest film, Fox vs. Franken, co-directed with Nick Doob, will air on the Sundance Channel in December. Hegedus is also a professor at Yale University.

The Senior Curator of Film Exhibitions for the Department of Film at MOMA in New York, Kardish received his BA in Philosophy from Carleton University, in Canada, in 1966. He then went on to earn his MA in Fine Arts from the Columbia University School of the Arts, Film, Radio, and Television Program in 1968. The same year, he was hired as the Curatorial Assistant to create "Cineprobe," a forum for the independent and avant-garde filmmakers at MOMA. He was promoted to Associate Curator in 1977, and then became Curator in 1984. In 1990, Kardish was named Curator and Coordinator of Film Exhibitions, with responsibility for the public presentation of all films at MOMA.

His most recent exhibition is Rainer Werner Fassbinder, for which he also edited the book of the exhibit. He wrote, directed, and produced Slow Run (1968), a feature-length independent pseudo-narrative. In 1995, he was bestowed the honor of Ordre des Arts et des Lettres — Deade de Chevalier from the Government of France. Kardish was the Guest Curator at the inaugural Full Frame (DDFF) Documentary Film Festival in 1998.

Philanthropist Betty Kenan's interest in and support of the arts has had a major impact on North Carolina. Full Frame is one of several organizations in this area that benefit from her experience, wisdom and generosity. As a fan of Full Frame, she has attended both the festival and year-round events. She joins the Festival Board representing the interests of a vibrant North Carolina arts community.

After graduating from Northeastern University with a degree in psychology, Kopple began using film as a medium for clinical studies. She assisted documentary filmmakers as an editor, sound recordist, and camerawoman.

She later spent four years in the coal fields of Harlan County, Kentucky, using film to vividly record the evolving struggle of unionized miners against wage cuts. This effort resulted in a provocative, openly militant film, Harlan County, USA, which went on to win the Academy Award as Best Feature-Length Documentary in 1976. This experience later inspired Kopple's only fiction film, Keeping On, and she has also directed American Dream, No Nukes, Winter Soldier, and Richard 111.

Kopple has received numerous awards for her documentary work, including two Academy Awards for Best Feature Documentary, the Critics Choice Award at the Cannes Film Festival, as well as fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship and the National Endowment for the Arts. She is the director of Woodstock '94, A Conversation with Gregory Peck, My Generation, In the Boom Boom Room and The Hamptons Project.

In 2001, Kopple received the Full Frame (DDFF) Career Award. Kopple co-directed Bearing Witness, the 2005 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival Opening night film.

A native of North Carolina, McElwee is one of the pre-eminent documentary filmmakers of our time. He graduated from Brown University and later received an MS in filmmaking from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

McElwee began his career as a studio cameraman for the local evening news, housewife helper shows, and "gospel hour" programs in his hometown of Charlotte, NC. He began making his own films in 1976 and early works include Charleen and Backyard. His most noted work, also his first full-length documentary, Sherman's March, established McElwee's innovative first person narrative style and won him the "Best Documentary" award at the Sundance Film Festival in 1987. Sherman's March was also selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry.

McElwee's other films include Something to Do with the Wall (1991), which he co-directed with his wife Marilyn Levine, Time Indefinite (1993), Six O'Clock News (1996), and Bright Leaves (2003), which was shown at a work-in-progress at Full Frame and premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.

He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Guggenheim Foundation. McElwee teaches a film production course at Harvard University, where he is Professor of Filmmaking in the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies.

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After studying drama at Northwestern University, Neal made her Broadway debut in The Voice of the Turtle. Her success in Another Part of the Forest in 1946 initiated her film career and, after signing with Warner Brothers, she proceeded to make 13 movies in the next four years, including John Loves Mary, The Hasty Heart, The Fountainhead, Brightleaf, Diplomatic Courier, and Operation Pacific.

After marrying British writer Roald Dahl in 1953, Neal acted in A Face in the Crowd and later won an Oscar for Best Actress in 1964 for her performance in Hud. Neal then suffered a series of strokes that left her partially paralyzed, and began a successful struggle and years of rehabilitation. Neal returned to her film career and received an Academy Award nomination for her role in The Subject Was Roses and was also awarded the Heart of the Year Award by President Johnson in 1968. She appeared in the 1999 Robert Altman film, Cookie's Fortune, to much acclaim.

Today, Neal continues to act, has become a champion of the rehabilitation field, and has also published her autobiography, As I Am.

Nevins is President, Original Programming for Home Box Office. She is responsible for overseeing the development and production of all documentaries and family programming for HBO and Cinemax and their multiplex channels.

During her tenure, HBO's critically acclaimed documentary and family programs have won numerous awards including 26 Emmy Awards, 13 George Foster Peabody Awards and seven Academy Awards. In 1998 she garnered two career achievement awards: the IDA Career Achievement Award and the New York Women in Television & Film Muse Award for Outstanding Vision & Achievement.

Nevins joined HBO in 1979 and worked for four years as HBO's director of documentary programming. A trustee of the International Documentary Association, she is a member of the Writers Guild of America and is on the Board of the National Cable and Television Academy. She holds a BA from Barnard College and an MFA from Yale University School of Drama. Nevins was awarded the first Industry Award at the 2000 Full Frame.

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Since 2004, Rafael Pastor has been Chairman & CEO of Vistage International (formerly TEC), the world’s largest for-profit CEO membership organization.  Headquartered in San Diego, Vistage helps 14,000 senior executives in 16 countries to become better leaders, making better decisions and achieving better results. 

Previously, Mr. Pastor lived in New York City and had an extensive background in both leading and advising business enterprises.  He held senior executive positions at global media companies, including CEO of Hoyts Cinemas Corporation; President of USA Networks International; Executive Vice President, International, of News Corporation and Fox Television International; and President of CBS/Fox Video International.  He dealt with all aspects of the film, television and publishing businesses in the United States and throughout the world.  Subsequently, he and his partners founded the Sonenshine Pastor investment banking and private equity firm.

Mr. Pastor started his career as an attorney, first at the Wall Street law firm of Hawkins, Delafield and Wood and then as Associate General Counsel at CBS Inc.  He has a BA from Columbia University and a JD from NYU School of Law, serves on the boards of several not-for-profit organizations, and speaks several languages.

After attending Yale and MIT, Pennebaker joined the Navy before starting his own engineering firm. Seeking a more creative outlet, he made his filmmaking debut in 1953 with Daybreak Express, and later joined Drew Associates in 1959, a group of filmmakers dedicated to furthering the use of film in journalism. Working with other documentarians,

Pennebaker has produced several landmark films, including Jane, documenting the Broadway debut of Jane Fonda, You're Nobody Til Somebody Loves You, and Don't Look Back, a progenitor of music videos that is based on Bob Dylan. Pennebaker's 1993 feature documentary The War Room, which follows Bill Clinton's 1992 Presidential campaign, received the prestigious D.W. Griffith Award for Best Documentary by the National Board of Review, as well as an Academy Award nomination. Pennebaker received acclaim for his documentary featuring 11 musicians performing Jimi Hendrix songs in their own styles in Searching for Jimi Hendrix.

Together with his wife Chris Hegedus, Pennebaker directed and produced one of the most popular documentaries of 2001, Down From the Mountain, featuring musicians and the music from the Coen brothers' film, O Brother, Where Art Thou?. It premiered at Full Frame (DDFF.) Together, they were awarded the Full Frame (DDFF) 2001 Career Award, and Pennebaker served as the festival's Guest Curator in 2002. The World Premiere of Elaine Stritch at Liberty was the 2004 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival Opening Night film.

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After graduating from Williams College with a degree in psychology, Sayles supported himself with a variety of odd jobs, including writing short stories.

The first story he sold earned him an O. Henry Award and he soon began writing novels, including Pride of the Bimbos in 1975, and Union Dues in 1977, which was nominated for the National Book and National Book Critics Circle Awards. Sayles then began writing screenplays and made a name for himself by directing The Return of the Secaucus Seven in 1980, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for screenwriting. He was nominated again in 1992 for his screenplay for the film Passion Fish, which he also directed.

He has used film as a medium to explore social and /political concerns and produced Lianna in 1982, The Brother From Another Planet in 1984, Matewan in 1987, Eight Men Out in 1988, and City of Hope in 1991. Other films include The Secret of Roan Innish (1994), Lone Star (1996), Men With Guns (1997), Limbo (1999), and Sunshine State (2001).

Immediately after high school, Sheen moved to New York and began his acting career at the off-off-Broadway Living Theater. His big break came with the lead in the Broadway production of The Subject was Roses, a role he later reprised in the 1968 movie version.

Sheen has starred in several acclaimed television movies, notably, The Execution of Private Slovik, The Missiles of October, Kennedy, and The Long Road Home, for which he won an Emmy award. His feature film career began with his performance in Badlands (1973), for which he was named Best Actor by the San Sebastian Film Festival and continued to flourish with such films as Catch-22 (1970), Apocalypse Now (1979), That Championship Season (1982), Wall Street (1987), and Gettysburg (1993).

Sheen made his directing debut in the 1990 film Cadence. He is well known for his commitment to various social causes, and he has lent his narrative voice to a number of documentary films.

Solt has spent most of his 30 years in the entertainment industry as a writer, producer and director of countless specials and features for television and the movies.

His first writing and producing credits came in the early 1970s on the ABC adventure series The Explorers. In 1977, he was nominated for his first Emmy Award for producing Oasis in Space — a series of six Jacques Cousteau environmental specials — and a two-part Atlantis special. The following year Solt co-produced and co-directed Heroes of Rock 'N Roll, a highly-acclaimed two-hour special. Solt continued to pursue his interest in rock music with This Is Elvis (1980) and Imagine: John Lennon (1988), working with David Wolper on both projects; 25 x 5: The Continuing Adventures of the Rolling Stones (1989), Elvis: The Great Performances (1990), which won a Gold Medal at the New York Film Festival; and History of Rock 'N Roll (1995), an Emmy-nominated 10-hour documentary series for Warner Bros. and Time/Life Video.

Since 1990, Solt and his production company, SOFA Entertainment, have produced over 75 hours of new programming from the 1000-hour library archives of The Ed Sullivan Show. In addition to acquiring the rights to The Jerry Garcia Story, Solt also has a number of feature films, series and specials in development for various studios, networks and cable channels.

He received both his BA and his Master's Degree in Journalism from UCLA. In 1999, he completed work on a documentary entitled, Gimme Some Truth: The Making of John Lennon's Imagine Album, which screened at the 2001 DoubleTake Documentary Film Festival. He recently was the Co-Executive Producer of NBC's 75th Anniversary Special.

An advocate of women's issues for more than 30 years, Marie C. Wilson is founder and President of The White House Project, co-creator of Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work ® Day and author of Closing the Leadership Gap: Why Women Can and Must Help Run the World (Viking 2004).

In 1998 while President of the Ms. Foundation for Women, Wilson founded The White House Project in recognition of the need to build a truly representative democracy — one where women lead alongside men in all spheres. She left the Ms. Foundation in 2004 after two decades, to devote her full energy to The White House Project. In honor of her work, the Ms. Foundation created The Marie C. Wilson Leadership Fund, which will be under her sole advisement. She is also an honorary founding mother of the Ms. Foundation for Women.

Since its inception, The White House Project has been a leading advocate and voice on women's leadership. Under her stewardship, innovative research and initiatives have been hallmarks of the organization. Highlights of the last seven years include groundbreaking research on young women's political participation, an analysis of women's appearances as guests on the influential Sunday political talk shows, the convening of women CEOs and executives for two national leadership summits, a bi-coastal conference of international women leaders, a partnership with Girl Scouts to launch the Ms. President patch and initiatives to influence popular culture.

Over the last thirty years, Wilson's accomplishments span becoming the first woman elected to the Des Moines City Council as a member-at-large in 1983, co-authoring the critically acclaimed Mother Daughter Revolution (1993, Bantam Books), and serving as an official government delegate to the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women held in Beijing, China in 1995. And in 2000, in conjunction with Mattel, Wilson brought the world President Barbie.

Wilson has been profiled in The New York Times "Public Lives" column, has appeared on The Today Show, CNN, National Public Radio and other national programs and is quoted widely for her expertise. Wilson co-curated the 2003 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival's curated program, Leadership Through a Gender Lens.