Peter Biskind: Executive Director and Co-Programmer
Peter Biskind is the executive director and co-programmer of FilmColumbia. He also selects the nightly programs at the Crandell, and the every-other-Sunday indie matinees. He is a contributing editor to Vanity Fair and the author of several books, including Easy Riders, Raging Bulls; Down and Dirty Pictures; and Star: How Warren Beatty Seduced America. He is currently working on a book called The Eve of Destruction: Adventures in Extreme Culture and several other projects. Visit his website. Click here to watch an interview with Peter Biskind about FilmColumbia and independent film. (Courtesy of CCScoop)
Calliope Nicholas: Director
Photo Credit: Patrick Harbron
Calliope Nicholas has been with FilmColumbia Festival since it’s inception in 1999 and as its Director since 2002, making sure the five-day film festival runs smoothly for the thousands of visitors descending on Chatham, NY. Calliope is also the Residency Director at Millay Colony for Arts, an international artist colony in Austerlitz, NY, since 2005. She was also a panelist for New York State Council on the Arts for several years, and way, way back, worked at Studio 54, so knows what it takes to create a fabulous event. She is currently working on a book of wild times in the 70′s.
Click here to watch an interview with Calliope Nicholas about the film festival. (Courtesy of CCScoop)
Laurence Kardish: Co-Programmer
Larry is Senior Curator, Department of Film, The Museum of Modern Art where he has organized hundreds of exhibitions that cover not only the whole history and culture of cinema but newly expanded digital expressions of the art of the moving image. He has served on the Selection Committee of the MoMA and Lincoln Center collaborative annual festival “New Directors/New Films” since its inception in 1972, and has also served on the juries of many international and American festivals such as Cannes, Sundance, Adelaide, and Edinburgh. He has written several books and catalogs including one devoted to the Dutch installation artist Aernout Mik, and more recently, “Weimar Cinema: Daydreams and Nightmares, 1919 – 1933″, to accompany a comprehensive exhibition devoted to a golden and influential age of German filmmaking.
Click here to watch Laurence interviewed on the Charlie Rose Show about the work of Alfred Hitchcock.
