Kelly Spivey has been making experimental films since 1998. Her films explore themes of class, gender, women's roles and more recently, anxiety, especially in relationship to our increasingly frenetic urban lifestyles, and information overload capabilities. Spivey's work has screened nationally and internationally and has won awards. Several of her film projects have received support from The New York State Council on the Arts, and she was a New York Foundation on the Arts Fellow in 2005. Spivey works in New York City in post-production sound and picture editing and video preservation at Mercer Media.

Screening: Make Them Jump (2009), Poor White Trash Girl (2003), Why You Were Born (2001) & others

Make Them Jump (2009)

Richard Kegler is the founder and designer at P22 type foundry bsed in Buffalo, NY. Before his involvement in type design, Kegler was a bookbinder, designer, postgraduate, and artist seeking a respectable self-sustaining life as a hand-craftsman. Kegler recently starteda non-profit Book Arts Center in Buffalo and has returned to hand setting and printing metal and wood type along with digital font research at P22. He recently completed a documentary about Jim Rimmer, possibly the only person who designed and fabricated fonts in both digital and metal formats.

Screening: Making Faces: Metal Type in the 21st Century, A Documentary (2010)

Making Faces: Metal Type in the 21st Century, A Documentary (2010)

Gossa Tsegaye is a documentary filmmaker who focuses on people who inhabit the social margins of our region. Tsegaye's subjects have included migrant workers in King Ferry, immigrants in nearby Lansing, and the residents of Buffalo Hill (in Ithaca). He will be screening his most recent film called The Jungle' s Edge, which documents an area along the railroad tracks on Ithaca's west side where homeless people gather.

Screening: The Jungle' s Edge (2009)

The Jungle' s Edge (2009)

Meg Knowles has produced more than 40 short documentary films. She is an Assistant Professor of Media Production in the Communication Department at Buffalo State College. Her award winning films have been screened at festivals, galleries and museums including the Museum of Modern Art, Anthology Film Archives, Portland PDX Film Festival, and the Athens International Film & Video Festival. Knowles has a BA in
Art History from Vassar College, an MA in Media Study from the University at Buffalo and an MFA in Film Media Arts from Temple University.

Screening: Walk (2006), Crush (2001), Christmas Past (2000), Elephant Talk (2000), Cure by Pill (1997)

Walk (2006)

Geoffrey Alan Rhodes' experimental films and video installations have screened and exhibited internationally and combine the media of cinema, music, photography, video art, and new media. His first educational documentary Made Over In America (2008) is distributed by Icarus Films, and won the Bronze Award at the 2008 Health and Science Communications Association Media Festival. Buried Land is Rhodes' first feature fiction film. Rhodes lives in Rochester, NY.

SCREENING: Buried Land (2010)

Buried Land (2010)