Lynn Ahrens - Broadway lyricist/librettist.

Peggy Ahwesh - Media artist and Associate Professor of Film and Electronic Arts at Bard College.

Karen Allen - Actress with over 50 films and TV movie credits, including starring roles in Animal House, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and Starman.

Shari Springer Berman - Co-director and co-writer of American Splendor and director of The Young and the Dead.

Peter Biskind - Author of several books including the best sellers, Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Films, and Riders, Raging Bulls. He is also a contributing editor at Vanity Fair.

Scott Cohen - Actor in theater, film, and television.

Bob Eisenhardt - Film editor, director, producer, and a three-time Emmy Award winner and Oscar nominee.

Bob Giraldi - Producer and director of more than 2500 television commercial campaigns, music videos and films including Dinner Rush and Hiding Out.

Patti Greaney - Commercial film and new media producer for Giraldi Media.

David Grubin - Award-winning film producer.

Judy Grunberg - Former Artistic Director of the original Columbia County Council on the Arts, and Performance Space PS 21.

John Hart - Founding partner of Hart Sharp Entertainment.

Peter Hutton - Filmmaker and the Chairman of Bard College Film and Electronic Arts Program.

David Irving - Film director, writer, producer, Associate Professor in film production at New York University, and Chairman of the Undergraduate Film and Television Department at NYU.

Amanda Mackey Johnson - Co-founder of ScreenBridge, LLC and a partner in Mackey/Sandrich Casting.

Richard E. Johnson - Co-founder of ScreenBridge, LLC.

Laurence Kardish - film curator, Museum of Modern Art.

Regge Life - Independent film and television producer.

Robert Ian Mackenzie - Actor in theater, films and TV.

Branda Miller - Media artist and Professor in the Arts Department at the iEAR Studios of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Frank and Caroline Ahlfors Mouris - Academy Award-winning independent filmmakers.

Robert Pulcini - Co-director, co-writer, and editor of American Splendor and director of The Young and the Dead.

Bingham Ray - 25-year veteran of independent film business. Currently President of Kimmel Distribution, a division of Sidney Kimmel Entertainment.

Alan and Susan Raymond - Academy Award and Emmy-winning documentary filmmakers.

Jack Rollins - Personal manager and producer for personalities such as Woody Allen, Nichols and May, Robin Williams, and Billy Crystal.

Bud Rosenthal - Marketing consultant, Chair of Academyof Motion Picture Arts and Science's NY Events Committee

James Schamus - CEO of Focus Features, producer, and screenwriter.

Deborah Shaffer - Documentary filmmaker.

George Sheanshang - entertainment attorney

John Sloss - Producer, entertainment attorney, and partner in InDigEnt, a digital filmmaking company.

Fisher Stevens - Actor, co-founder of Naked Angels, the NYC based theater company, and founding partner and creative director of GreeneStreet Films in NYC.

Anastasia Traina - Playwright and screenplay writer.