Ms. Films Festival

Amanda Larson (Stop-Motion on the Fly (intensive) and Flash Animation for websites)
Amanda is a producer and editor based in Seattle, WA who teaches a wonderful series of editing and animation classes. We met Amanda on the Ms. Films West Coast tour in October and had the pleasure of attending one of her stop motion animation classes and were impressed by the class, the range of her projects, and her passion for teaching and empowering people to try out various mediamaking.

Pat Doyen (Cut & Paste as Resistance: Creating Recycled Media)
Pat holds degrees in film and media studies from the State University of New York at Buffalo and is currently in the L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation program at George Eastman House in Rochester , NY . Her films have been screened at festivals around the world. She is a contributor to the Ms. Films DIY Guide to Film & Video, a curator for Trailer Park Fest, and this is her third year facilitating workshops at the Ms. Films Festival.

Betsy Greer (Craftivism: A New Approach to do-it-yourself activism)
Betsy is an artist and activist currently living in North Carolina . While her interests vary widely, her work always comes back to a developing a sense of self complete with ideosyncracies and the importance of community dialogue. Recently she has been working on promoting the idea of ethical wool production and researching the cultural importance of all things handmade.

Nayeli Garci-Crespo (Moviemaking 101: An Overview of the Basics)
Nayeli is THRILLED to have finally finished her Ph.D. in Duke Literature's Film/Video/Digital program. She has taught film and video production courses and workshops at Duke and in the area, and has also been a teaching assistant for local animator Fred Burns' courses for several years. Nayeli has worked as a freelance editor and director of photography on several films and videos. In 2002 she directed and edited the nationally-broadcasted Duke ACC institutional spot. She is a member of Freewater Productions, a filmmaking collective that she headed for two years. Her titles include Blue Skies, Vanishing Point, and Grace. This is her fourth year presenting workshops at the Ms. Films Festival.

Shambhavi Kaul (Editing with Final Cut Pro)
Shambhavi has worked both nationally and internationally as a freelance editor and film-maker. She recently finished her first feature length documentary on country music legend, David Allan Coe. She currently resides in Durham , where she runs Hard Light , a film, video and web production company.

Anne Cremieux (Ladyfesto media panel)
Anne Anne Crémieux is an independent French filmmaker. She has been making short films and documentaries for 6 years. Her previous works include The Making of the Black Ninja (Phila Stories 3), Crystal (Phila Stories 4), Ride Me Up, Ride Me Down (2004 Fringe Festival, Bike in Film Festival). Since Ladyfesto, she has completed Colors of America, a one-hour documentary. Website: www.excuzemyfrench.com

Sarah Mosbacher (Living Room panel)
Sarah is a native New Yorker who now manages Internationalist Books, a cooperative bookstore and community center in Chapel Hill . After graduating from Bard College (NY) she worked on a series of political campaigns including a state representative race in Massachusettes and for the Democratic Party in New Hampshire leading up to the 2004 presidential election.

Niku Arbabi (Zinemaking for Activism; director of Ms. Films) has facilitated zine workshops independently and for events and organizations including Rock Camp for Girls, SEEDS, and the Chapel Hill Book Fair. Her zines include Radical South, Polaroid-Celluloid, and the Ms. Films DIY Guide to Film & Video. Niku is also the director of Ms. Films, a crafter, and an advocate for doing it yourself.

Taylor Ball (Zinemaking for Activism) lives in Fredericksburg, Virginia and has published his zine Cultor-Sore for almost ten years and has been running the zine distro Parcell Press for a little over two years. Parcell Press is the umbrella project for not only wholesale/retail zine distribution, but for zine and book publishing as well. Supporting his own self-published works to the works of other zinesters and artists, Parcell Press is devoted to bringing zines into as many eager hands as possible and increasing the legitimacy of independent publishing in a corporate publishing world.