2017 Speakers & Guests

2017 Fall Season Speakers

Host of WUSB’s “The Sounds of Film”, Tom Needham, Moderator, Scott Rosenbaum, Director, Tony Grazia, Producer and Former Lead Guitarist and Musical Director of Gregg Allman Band, Scott Sharrard, Musical Performer and Guest Speaker, SIDEMEN: LONG ROAD TO GLORY

Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist, Roy Gutman, guest speaker, and Dean of Stony Brook University’s School of Journalism, Howard Schneider, moderator, CITY OF GHOSTS

Co-Producer and Film Editor, Matthew Hamachek, CITY OF GHOSTS

Wendy Whelan, star of RESTLESS CREATURE: WENDY WHELAN

Antonino D’Ambrosio, Director, FRANK SERPICO

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Sarita Khurana, Co-Director, A SUITABLE GIRL

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Alexandra Dean, Director, BOMBSHELL: THE HEDY LAMARR STORY

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Sandy Chronopoulos (via Skype), Director, HOUSE OF Z

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Julie Cohen, Director, AMERICAN VETERAN

2017 Spring Season Speakers

Reuben Atlas, Director, SOUR GRAPES, Special Summer Event

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Adam Irving (via Skype), Director, OFF THE RAILS

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Lorenzo Pisoni (via Skype), Director, CIRCUS KID

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Brett Berns, Director and Cassie Berns, Producer, BANG! THE BERT BERNS STORY

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Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg, Directors, MARATHON: THE PATRIOTS DAY BOMBING

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Michele Mitchell, Co-Director, THE UNCONDEMNED

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Sean Lyness, Associate Producer; Jill and Vera Sung, Subjects in the Film, ABACUS: SMALL ENOUGH TO JAIL

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Assistant Professor Dr. Zebulon Miletsky, Africana Studies Department, Stony Brook University and Author/Professor Michael Thelwell, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO

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