SUNDAY, April 10

About the Festival Guests

Maribeth Brewster was the film reviewer for Style Weekly from 1985-2004 and currently reviews for WWBT-Channel 12 where she also produces the news.

Diane Bonder is a graphic designer by day and filmmaker by night. To date she has completed 12 films. Shooting Super 8 and 16mm in documentary, poetic, and semi-narrative styles, she explores issues of belonging, identity, memory, and loss. She is a 2003 recipient of a NY Foundation for the Arts Fellowship and NY State Council of the Arts Award. Her work has screened internationally at festivals including Ann Arbor, Images, European Media Arts Festival, and the James River Film Festival (2004), and at Pacific Film Archive, Museum of Modern Art, Brooklyn Museum of Art, and The New Museum, as well as at numerous microcinemas.

Dr. Duane Byrge covers the Sundance and Cannes Film Festivals for The Hollywood Reporter and teaches communications and journalism at Virginia State University in Petersburg.

Nathaniel Dorsky has been making and exhibiting films within the avant-garde tradition since 1964. He now lives in San Francisco where he makes a living as a film editor. His works have been shown internationally in museums and theaters and are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Pacific Film Archive, Image Forum in Tokyo, and Les Archives du film expérimental d'Avignon and Le Centre Pompidou in Paris, as well as many universities.

David Durston began his career as an actor on Broadway, where he worked under theater legend Moss Hart. He soon turned to writing for television and motion pictures and later directing—"The Love Statue" ('66), "The Blue Sextet" ('70), "I Drink Your Blood" ('71), and "Stigma" ('72) are among his credits.

Lynn Lowry began acting in grade school, later appearing in director David Durston's cult-fave "I Drink Your Blood" ('71), Jonathan Demme's "Fighting Mad" ('72) and George Romero's "Crazies" ('74), as well as off-Broadway and TV soaps. She also sings in an LA-based jazz trio.

Dan Neman began his career as a movie reviewer for the Bryan-College Station Eagle in Texas before joining the Richmond News-Leader in 1986. He currently is the film reviewer for the Richmond Times-Dispatch.

Pere Ubu, the formerly Cleveland-based avant-garage/post-punk band, has cultivated a distinct sound around driving rhythms, synthesized effects and the idiosyncratic delivery of front man David Thomas. Their albums The Modern Dance, Dub Housing, and Pennsylvania are considered classics, and they recently toured the UK doing live "underscoring" to the sci-fi film "It Came from Outer Space" and a summer show in New York with "X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes."