2018 Speakers & Guests

2018 Fall Season Speakers

(From Left to Right) Chuck Garelick, Head of Security; Gerard Renny, VIP Doorman, Scottie Taylor, Bartender; Myra Scheer, Executive Assistant and Tom Needham, Host of WUSB’s The Sounds of Film, Moderator, for STUDIO 54

(From Left to Right) Chuck Garelick, Head of Security; Gerard Renny, VIP Doorman, Scottie Taylor, Bartender; Myra Scheer, Executive Assistant and Tom Needham, Host of WUSB’s The Sounds of Film, Moderator, for STUDIO 54

Dr. Marnie Kula (2nd from the left), Director of the InStar Science Research Program at Ward Melville High School for SCIENCE FAIR

Mark Hayes, Director and Gabrielle Hayes, producer of SKID ROW MARATHON

director mark hayes and producer gabrielle hayes of documentary SKID ROW MARATHON

Daniel A. Miller, Director of HEADING HOME: THE TALE OF TEAM ISRAEL

Daniel Miller, Director of the documentary HEADING HOME: THE TALE OF TEAM ISRAEL

Nancy Schwartzman (via Skype), Director of ROLL RED ROLL

Jon Kasbe, Director of WHEN LAMBS BECOME LIONS

Bronwyn Berry, Producer and Carolyn Hepburn, Executive Producer, LOVE, GILDA

Bronwyn Berry, Producer and Carolyn Hepburn, Executive Producer, LOVE, GILDA

2018 Spring Season Speakers

Tom Needham, Host of WUSB’s “The Sounds of Film,” Moderator and Julie Cohen, Co-Director of RBG

RBG documentary director julie cohen and q&a moderator tom needham

Guy Fiorita, Director, MOLE MAN

Lisa Immordino Vreeland, Director, LOVE, CECIL

Alison Chernick, Director, ITZHAK

alison chernick itzhak director pjds documentary screening

Dr. Shimelis Gulema, Africana Studies, SBU, Moderator and Daniel McCabe, Director, THIS IS CONGO

Erika Cohn, Director, THE JUDGE

Tom Needham, Host of WUSB’s “The Sounds of Film”, Moderator, and Laurence Maslon, Screenwriter and Co-Producer, SAMMY DAVIS, JR.: I’VE GOTTA BE ME

Jed Rothstein (via Skype) Director, THE CHINA HUSTLE

Dr. Juan Carlos Canesa, Chair of the Dept. of Economics, Stony Brook University, THE CHINA HUSTLE