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Ina Archer, who served as consultant to the festival, is a filmmaker, visual artist, programmer and writer whose multimedia works and films have been shown nationally. She is the former co-chair of New York Women in Film and Television’s Women’s Film Preservation Fund and former faculty at Parsons School of Design at The New School. Ina earned a BFA in Film/Video from RISD and a Master’s in Cinema Studies at NYU focusing on race, preservation, technology, and early sound film. Ms. Archer presented a compilation of vaudeville shorts featuring African American artists at Film Forum in 2019.

Gillian Bowser, PhD. Received her training first in the arts at Laguardia High School of the Arts (then Music and Art) followed by degrees from Northwestern University (biology, minor in art), University of Vermont (Masters in zoology) and University of Missouri St Louis (PhD in Biology).  She spent most of her career in the National Park Service working as a wildlife ecologist at wild places like Yellowstone, Grand Tetons, Badlands, Joshua Tree and Wrangel St. Elias National Parks.  She is currently an associate faculty at Colorado State University with honors including American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Senior Fellow.  She follows her mother’s footsteps in trying to communicate social issues and science through art using her own lens from growing up in an urban area like Brooklyn while working in some of the wildest places in the country in North Central Alaska.

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