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Panelist Biographies
Clarence Gilyard
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Actor, producer, and teacher Clarence Gilyard, recent winner of the NAACP Image Award for outstanding actor in a drama, has been a CBS network co-star for the last dozen years, eight seasons on "Walker, Texas Ranger" and four years before that on "Matlock." He was also a series regular on "Duck Factory" with Jim Carrey and on the sixth season of "Chips." His film credits include roles in "Left Behind," "Die Hard," "Karate Kid," and "Top Gun." An honors graduate of California State University, he is a Master of Arts candidate at the University of Arkansas and has taught at the University of Texas at Arlington, Southern Methodist University, and Mississippi State University. Gilyard Productions' first low-budget theatrical release was the comedy-drama, "Boondooggle." Mr. Gilyard is active in many charitable causes and is a convert to Catholicism.
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Gina Guerrieri
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Gina Guerrieri teaches screenwriting at the Lincoln Center campus of Fordham University in New York City. She has a Master of Fine Arts degree in film from Columbia University. Her thesis-film, "Make Room for Mario," has been screened at dozens of domestic and international film festivals, earning 12 awards and citations. Prior to attending graduate school, Ms. Guerrieri was a television commercial producer at WWL-TV, the New Orleans CBS affiliate, and a copywriter at The Times Picayune, a New Orleans daily. She is currently working on a feature-length screenplay.
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Henry Herx
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A Chicago native, Henry Herx holds an advanced degree in history from Loyola University. He began working for the Legion of Decency in 1964 and reviewed movies and TV programming for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in a career spanning over 30 years. Mr. Herx served as Director of the USCCB's Office for Film and Broadcasting from 1989 through 1999 when he retired. He has taught at DePaul University and Fordham University and edited "Our Sunday Visitor's Family Guide to Movies and Videos,'' which offers capsule reviews with moral observations on more than 8,000 movies.
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Fr. Robert E. Lauder
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Father Bob Lauder has a bachelor's degree in theology and a master's in philosophy from Catholic University as well as a doctorate in philosophy from Marquette University. He has taught at Brooklyn College, Queens College, St. Joseph's College, Princeton Theological Seminary, and is currently a full professor of philosophy at St. John's University where he has taught since 1985. He has 10 published books to his credit. A columnist for The Tablet and The Long Island Catholic, Father Lauder has written for The New York Times, Newsday, America, Commonweal, and Cross Currents among others. On Friday nights, he runs a popular film festival series at the Immaculate Conception Center in Douglaston, Queens in New York City. He also does the introduction for a Saturday night movie series on the Telecare cable channel.
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Msgr. James Lisante
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Pastor of St. Thomas the Apostle Church in West Hempstead, Long Island and former director of The Christophers, Monsignor Jim Lisante is the author of "Personally Speaking, Celebrating Our Catholic Values and Ideals." A frequent spokesperson for the Church, he has appeared on “Nightline,” “The Phil Donohue Show,” MSNBC, ABC, and NBC News, and hosted the syndicated cable TV series, "Personally Speaking."
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Lou Lumenick
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Lou Lumenick is Chief Movie Critic of the New York Post. He has worked in a variety of editing and writing positions, including metropolitan editor of the Post, as well as a lengthy stint at the Bergen Record in Hackensack, NJ, where he wrote on topics as diverse as politics, fashion, and home video. Raised a Catholic in Astoria, Queens, Mr. Lumenick attended the City College of New York and studied filmmaking at the New School. He has attended many film festivals, including the Cannes, Sundance, and Toronto festivals. A Manhattan resident, he has appeared on numerous television programs, including "Entertainment Tonight," "Access Hollywood," and "Biography" and has lectured on film at the State University of New York.
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Bahman Maghsoudlou, Ph.D.
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An active participant on the world cinema scene, film scholar and critic Bahman Maghsoudlou has served as a panelist, lecturer, and juror at many film festivals such as San Francisco, Nantes, France, and the Margaret Mead Festival in Manhattan. His books include "Iranian Cinema" (1987) used around the world as a resource on the history of Persian films. He has lectured at numerous universities, including Harvard, Yale, and Columbia. Mr. Maghsoudlou wrote and directed the short documentary film, "Ardeshir Mohasses" and "His Caricatures," which was shown at the Leipzig Film Festival in 1996. As a producer, his films have been selected for more than 100 festivals worldwide. They include "The Suitors" (Cannes, 1988), "Manhattan by Numbers" (Venice, 1993), "Seven Servants" (Berlin, 1996) and "Life in Fog" (1998), the single most awarded short/documentary film in the history of Iranian cinema. Mr. Maghsoudlou is currently developing a film about Leo Tolstoy.
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Fr. Jim Martin
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As associate editor of America Magazine, Father James Martin contributes film critiques to this national Catholic weekly. He graduated from the Wharton School of Business in 1982 and after working six years in the corporate world entered the Society of Jesus in 1988 and was ordained in 1999. He received his master's degree in divinity in 1998 and in theology in 1999 from Weston Jesuit School of Theology in Cambridge, MA. Father Martin has authored several books, including "In Good Company: The Fast Track from the Corporate World to Poverty, Chastity and Obedience,'' from Sheed & Ward Books.
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Eleanor O'Sullivan
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A New Jersey native, Eleanor O'Sullivan graduated from Monmouth College in 1978 with a Bachelor of Arts in English. In addition to her 16-year career as a film critic for Gannett Newspapers' Asbury Park Press, Ms. O’Sullivan has produced reviews for radio broadcast and for television as part of the "Wake Up New Jersey" show on New Jersey Comcast and Cablevision networks. Ms. O'Sullivan has explored cinema art in a lecture series, and interviewed scores of directors and major motion picture actors including Steven Soderbergh, Ang Lee, Ron Howard, Michelle Pfeiffer, Paul Newman, and Brad Pitt.
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M.Z. Ribalow
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M.Z. Ribalow is Artist-in-Residence at Fordham University, where he has taught film courses for the last decade. Four of his screenplays have been optioned; he is the film columnist for The Sciences Magazine, and he has appeared on The Discovery Channel discussing film. His 20 plays have received more than 150 productions worldwide, winning awards in London, New York, Chicago, and regionally. His new play, "The Nature of the Universe," was recently presented on Broadway with Blythe Danner and Brian Dennehy. Mr. Ribalow has won national awards for fiction, poetry, and musical lyrics; and he has co-written books on sports and chess.
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Scott Siegel
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Film and theater critic Scott Siegel's reviews appear in print and on the Internet, and are heard on the radio. He has authored, and with his wife Barbara, co-authored, a total of 46 books, including "The Encyclopedia of Hollywood," and" American Film Comedy." His reviews are broadcast weekly on more than 100 radio stations, and his reviews, articles, and celebrity interviews have run in such diverse publications as The Bergen Record and The International Film Journal.
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Eva Stadler, Ph. D.
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Professor Eva Stadler is Director of the Literary Studies Program at Fordham University where she teaches Film Studies, English, and Comparative Literature. She holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University. Her published articles include studies on the relationship between film and literature, African film, the films of Robert Bresson, and Marcel Proust.
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William Wolf
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A Rutgers University graduate, critic, author, and educator, William Wolf served as film critic for Cue Magazine, New York Magazine, and was a syndicated film critic and columnist for the Gannett chain. His articles have appeared throughout the U.S. and abroad and his "New York Calling" theater column appeared in the Asbury Park Press from 1960-98. Mr. Wolf has served as Chairman of the New York Film Critics Circle, and has interviewed such cinema greats as Charlie Chaplin and Ingmar Bergman. He has been affiliated with New York University since the early 1970s, and is the author of "The Marx Brothers, and Landmark Films: The Cinema and Our Century," written in collaboration with his wife, Lillian Kramer Wolf. His reviews can be found on www.wolfentertainmentguide.com.
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