Recent Guest Speakers

STEVEN SPIELBERG, Director
Jaws, E.T., Jurassic Park,
Saving Private Ryan,
Schindler's List,
Munich,Indiana Jones,
Catch Me If You Can,
The Terminal, Minority Report

KEVIN SPACEY, Actor
American Beauty,
L.A. Confidential,
The Usual Suspects

RON HOWARD, Director
Apollo 13, A Beautiful Mind,
The Da Vinci Code

JULIETTE LEWIS, Actress
Natural Born Killers,
Cape Fear, Due Date

ROBERT TOWNE, Screenwriter
Chinatown, Mission: Impossible,
Mission: Impossible II

SEAN YOUNG, Actress
Blade Runner, No Way Out,
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

JOHN CARPENTER, Director
Halloween, Escape from L.A.,
Escape from New York, They Live

AL RUDDY, Producer
The Godfather, The Longest Yard,
Million Dollar Baby

HENRY WINKLER, Director
Memories of me, Click,
The Waterboy, Night Shift

KEVIN KLINE, Actor
Fish Called Wanda, Dave,
The Ice Storm, In & Out

GLENN CLOSE, Actress
Dangerous Liaisons,
Fatal Attraction

DOUG LIMAN, Director
Bourne Identity,
Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Swingers

PAUL SCHRADER,
Screenwriter
Raging Bull, Taxi Driver,
The Last Temptation of Christ

MIKE FENTON,
Casting Director
Chinatown, American Graffiti,
The Godfather Part II,
ET, Blade Runner & 200 others

BARBARA DE FINA,
Producer
Goodfellas, Cape Fear,
The Last Temptation of Christ,
The Age of Innocence

BRETT RATNER, Director
Rush Hour 1,2 & 3,
Family Man, X-men 3

JOEL SCHUMACHER, Director
Flatliners, Batman Forever,
A Time to Kill, The Client

PAUL HAGGIS, Writer/Director
Crash, Million Dollar Baby,
Flags of Our Fathers

BEN STILLER, Actor
Meet the Parents, Zoolander,
Night at the Museum

THELMA SCHOONMAKER,
Editor
The Departed, Goodfellas,
Raging Bull

DENNIS HOPPER, Actor
Easy Rider, Hoosiers,
Blue Velvet

GARRY MARSHALL,
Producer/Director/Writer/Actor
Pretty Woman, Georgia Rule,
Princess Diaries, Happy Days

PAUL ZAENTZ, Producer
The English Patient,
The Talented Mr. Ripley,
Goya's Ghost

MIRA NAIR, Director
Monsoon Wedding,
Mississippi Masala

LOU DIAMOND PHILLIPS,
Director/Actor
La Bamba, Stand and Deliver,
Courage Under Fire,
Young Guns

TED HOPE, Producer
The Ice Storm, In the Bedroom,
21 Grams, American Splendor,
The Savages

JON VOIGHT, Actor
Midnight Cowboy,
Runaway Train, The Rainmaker

LASZLO KOVAKS,
Cinematographer
Easy Rider, Ghostbusters,
Five Easy Pieces

JAMES SIGNORELLI, Director
Saturday Night Live,
Easy Money

JANEANE GAROFALO,
Actress
Reality Bites,
Truth About Cats & Dogs

MATTHEW MODINE, Actor
Full Metal Jacket,
Married to the Mob, Birdy

MARY KAY PLACE, Actress
Being John Malkovich,
The Big Chill, Big Love

GABRIEL BYRNE, Actor
Usual Suspects,
Miller's Crossing,
Enemy of the State

STEPHEN RIVELE, Writer
Copying Beethoven

GEORGE GALLO, Writer
Local Color, Midnight Run,
The Whole Ten Yards,
Bad Boys, Wise Guys

TOM DICILLO, Director
Living in Oblivion,
Jonny Suede

MICHAEL BESMAN, Producer
About Schmidt, Bounce,
Seven Years in Tibet

DYLAN BAKER, Actor
Spiderman 2, Spiderman 3,
Happiness

JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT,
Actor
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra,
(500) Days of Summer,
3rd Rock from the Sun

BOB FISHER, Screenwriter
Wedding Crasher,
Married with Children

MEG LIBERMAN,
Casting Director
Band of Brothers, The X Files,
The King of Queens

BILL FRANKER, Cinematographer
Tombstone, WarGames,
Rosemary's baby

MARK HARRIS, Producer
Crash, Gods and Monsters

ANTHONY QUINN (1915-2001)
Lawrence of Arabia, Lust for Life,
La Strada

JAMES AVERY, Actor
Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,
The Closer, Dr. Dolittle 2

DIANE NEAL, Actress
Law & Order

KENNETH LONERGAN,
Director/Screenwriter
You Can Count on Me,
Analyze This, Gangs of New York

A.C. LYLES,
Consulting Producer
Deadwood, Rawhide,
And 66 other film & TV Shows

GLEN HANSARD, Irish Singer
Academy Award Winner
Once

STEVEN RAPHAEL,
Industry Executive
Ballast, La Vie En Rose,
The Visitor, Pan's Labyrinth,
Maria Full of Grace

EVA KOLODNER, Producer
Boys Don't Cry

PAUL RACHMAN, Director
American Hardcore, Memories,
Drive Baby Drive, Home,
Bang Bang, Zoe XO

TOM QUINN,
Writer, Director ...
The New Year Parade

MATT WOLF, Director
Wild Combination:
A Portrait of Arthur Russell

H. H. COOPER,
Assistant Director
My Blueberry Nights

DAVID PATERSON,
Screenwriter
Bridge to Terabithia

NANETTE BURSTEIN,
Director/Producer
American Teen

JOHN FAVREAU, Actor
Four Christmases, Iron Man,
The Replacements

ROGER GUENVEUR SMITH,
Writer/Actor
Do the Right Thing,
Malcolm X, School Daze

MAUREEN RYAN,
Producer
Man On Wire