Film Forum

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Born and raised in Los Angeles, Lisa Hurwitz grew up in the storied Laurel Canyon neighborhood. She received a liberal arts degree from The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington and went on to work at arts organizations in Washington including The Olympia Film Society, where she directed The Olympia Film Festival, having started her affiliation there by volunteering as a 35 mm projectionist.  Lisa helped oversee The Arts + Ideas Stage at The Stroum Jewish Community Center of Greater Seattle and The Seattle Jewish Film Festival.  She later moved to New York City where she worked as a publicist at an Italian public relations firm.  Her first feature film THE AUTOMAT premiered at The 2021 Telluride Film Festival.  Her next project, a narrative romantic comedy film set in Italy, is currently in development.  She resides in Manhattan's Upper West Side.

Peter Miller is an Emmy and Peabody-award winning filmmaker whose documentaries include A.K.A. DOC POMUS, SACCO AND VANZETTI, JEWS AND BASEBALL: AN AMERICAN LOVE STORY, A CLASS APART, BEDLAM, THE INTERNATIONALE, and EGG CREAM, among many others. He has also been a producer on numerous documentaries by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, including the PBS series THE WAR and JAZZ.

Dr. Sarah M. Henry is the Robert A. and Elizabeth Rohn Jeffe Chief Curator and Deputy Director at the Museum of the City of New York, where she has served since 2001. Dr. Henry oversees all Museum exhibitions (over 200 to date), including the award-winning three-gallery signature exhibition, New York at Its Core (2016), and an exhibition on the Automat (2002) . She received her Ph.D. in U.S. History from Columbia and a B.A. from Yale. She is the recipient of the Manhattan Borough President’s “History Visionary Award,” is a member of the New York Academy of History, and serves on the board of the International Council of Museums’ Committee on the Collections and Activities of Museums of Cities.