2023 Fall Guest Speakers

2023 Fall Season Speakers

Left to Right: Sarah Baxter, Director
of the Marie Colvin Center
for International Reporting at SBU
Taylor Wildenhaus,
Co-Producer of
RATHER &
Moderator Tom Needham
Host of
The Sounds of Film on WUSB Radio

Waad Al-Kateab, Director of
WE DARE TO DREAM via Zoom

The WE DARE TO DREAM film
was preceded by a piano concert
featuring virtuoso pianist
Jacqueline Schwab, who played piano
on Ken Burns’ soundtracks.
She shared selections
from her new album,
I Lift My Lamp,
reflecting the
immigrant experience in America.

 

Left to Right:
Brian Becker & Marley McDonald, Co-Directors
of TIME BOMB Y2K
&
Moderator Tom Needham,
Host of The Sounds of Film on WUSB Radio

Andrew H. Brown, Co-Director
of BETWEEN THE RAINS via Zoom

Dr. Dino Martins (L),
CEO of the Turkana Basin Institute &
Tom Needham (R),
Moderator for BETWEEN THE RAINS
(Virtual Background:
Kolei, Subject of Film BETWEEN THE RAINS)

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Jeremy Newberger, Co-Director of
ISRAEL SWINGS FOR GOLD with
Lyn Boland, Co-Director of the
Port Jefferson Documentary Series

EXTRA-ORDINARY Event
A unique opportunity to meet
former NBA star and
former Senator Bill Bradley
and see his new documentary!

Senator Bill Bradley,
Screenwriter and Subject
of Film ROLLING ALONG
w/Co-Directors Barbara Sverd (L)
and Wendy Feinberg (R)

 

Senator Bradley During Q&A &
During the “Meet and Greet”

Maggie Contreras, Director
of MAESTRA via Zoom

Concert Conductor
Mélisse Brunet,
Subject in Film MAESTRA

Till Schauder & Sara Nodjoumi
Co-Directors
For A REVOLUTION ON CANVAS