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Jamie Sisley is an Emmy-nominated filmmaker for his feature documentary, FAREWELL, FERRIS WHEEL. The film won the Creative Promise Award from the Tribeca Film Institute, received an Imagen nomination for the positive portrayal of Latinos in entertainment, and was nationally broadcast on PBS and Netflix. He also wrote and directed the short film Stay Awake, which premiered at the 2015 Berlin International Film Festival, and won both the National Board of Review Film Prize and the Slamdance Grand Jury Prize. Jamie earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Virginia and an M.F.A. in Film from Columbia University. STAY AWAKE is Jamie’s first narrative feature.

Wyatt Oleff has established himself with memorable roles in blockbuster franchise films such as Young Peter Quill in GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY and GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 2, and as Stanley Uris in Stephen King’s IT and IT: CHAPTER 2. In 2020, he starred in the Netflix show, I Am Not OK with This. Wyatt will star in the Apple TV+ series City on Fire, which premieres on May 12, and the feature, IN MY LIFE, opposite Kevin Pollak. His co-directing debut, the short film Writer’s Block (filmed in one day) is available on Amazon Prime Video.

Annette Insdorf is Professor of Film at Columbia University's School of the Arts, and Moderator of the popular "Reel Pieces" series at Manhattan's 92Y, where she has interviewed almost 300 film celebrities. She is the author of the landmark study, Indelible Shadows: Film and the Holocaust (with a foreword by Elie Wiesel); Double Lives, Second Chances: The Cinema of Krzysztof Kieslowski; Francois Truffaut, a study of the French director's work; Philip Kaufman, and Intimations: The Cinema of Wojciech Has. Her latest book is Cinematic Overtures: How to Read Opening Scenes, currently in its fourth printing.

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