For the time twenty-five years, Chaz Ebert and the Faculty of Media on the College of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have hosted the Ebertfest Movie Competition on the Virginia Theatre in Champaign, Illinois. Roger Ebert was once the primary Movie Critic to win a Pulitzer Prize for movie grievance. He held his colleagues in commendation. Since his loss of life, Chaz Ebert and Competition Director Nate Kohn have persevered a custom of inviting acclaimed movie critics and students to take part at Ebertfest. This 12 months’s competition is devoted to the reminiscence of Roger Ebert and David Bordwell.
Beneath, in alphabetical layout (following the names of Nate Kohn and Chaz Ebert), is an inventory of one of the movie critics and students who’re attending as Presenters:
NATE KOHN
Dr. Nathaniel (“Nate”) Kohn is coach within the Grady Faculty of Journalism and Cluster Conversation on the College of Georgia, competition director of Roger Ebert’s Movie Competition, director of the College of Georgia MFA program in screenwriting, director of the College of Georgia Cannes Movie Competition and Cannes Lions Find out about In a foreign country Methods, and an award-winning manufacturer.
Dr. Kohn produced Zulu Daybreak starring Burt Lancaster and Peter O’Toole; the detached function Somebodieswhich premiered at Sundance (2006); Downpourthe Bahamas’ first indigenous function which premiered at Toronto (2007) and on Showtime (2010); the function movie Bottleworld (2010); the feature-length documentary Bayou Maharajah which premiered at SXSW (2013); he was once Govt Manufacturer at the BET tv sequence Somebodies (2008); he produced the Emmy Award-winning shorten documentary Ebertfest 2012; and he was once Govt Manufacturer on The 73rd, 74th and seventy fifth Annual Peabody Awards Specials for PivotTV/Player Media (2014, 2015 and 2016).
He has served on juries and mentored screenwriters on the Atlanta, Hawaii, Kerala, Sizzling Springs and Bahamas World Movie Gala’s. He’s the creator of various scholarly articles and of the keep Pursuing Hollywood: Seduction, Obsession, Dread (AltaMira Press, 2006). And he’s a manufacturer at the detached function movie No person Needs To Be Right here, No person Needs To Release recently in manufacturing in Georgia and France.
CHAZ EBERT
Chaz Ebert is the Co-founder, Producerand Host of Ebertfest. Please revel in this interview with Chaz previewing the twenty fifth annualannually of Ebertfest, courtesy of Prairie Hearth.
BRENDA BUTLER
Brenda Butler’s skilled journalism profession spans from the ancient Johnson Publishing’s Jet Book to the Chicago Tribune, preserving positions as a reporter, novel essayist, division essayist, newsroom supervisor, and senior options essayist.
As a eyewitness to and player within the sectionalizing of American newspapers within the Nineteen Nineties, she held various enhancing positions on the Tribuneturning into the primary African American on the paper to store the placement of assistant managing essayist, the place she was once concerned within the thought and building of award-winning newspaper categories and magazines, and co-managed a workforce of greater than 100 journalists, editors, and help workforce.
Pace on the Tribune, she received enjoy in TV broadcasting when she wrote, produced, and moderated a 13-week sequence for Chicago cable TV titled “Playback: Views from an African American Perspective.”
As an teacher, she was once the chief director of Columbia Hyperlinks, a journalism, information literacy, and management building program for underserved adolescence in Chicago population top colleges, which was once later housed at Columbia Faculty Chicago.
Due to a three-year serve from the Ebert Foot, her program graduated the primary prepared of highschool Ebert Fellows, who discovered see and critique movies. The stellar paintings of those teenagers was once therefore revealed on Information stop.com.
Butler served a few years as a board member for the Nationwide Affiliation of Cloudy Newshounds-Chicago Bankruptcy, together with a three-term presidency. Underneath her management, the group was once named the nationwide NABJ Bankruptcy of the Day, any other first.
Butler earned a bachelor’s level in English literature and artistic writing from Knox Faculty in Galesburg, Sick., and graduated from the Maynard Institute for Journalism Training control program at Kellogg’s Graduate College of Control at Northwestern College, Evanston, Sick.
She is an avid and lifetime movie lover, bicyclist, traveler, and theatergoer.
NELL MINOW
Nell Minow is venerated to be the Contributing Essayist at News block.com. She additionally writes opinions at Moviemom.com and looks at the radio every while to discuss unutilized releases. Her books come with The Film Mother’s Information to Public Films and 101 Should-See Film Moments. Her husband shall we her have 20 films on her all-time lead 10 checklist, and in her additional past, she is a legal professional.
MICHAEL PHILLIPS
Michael Phillips is the movie critic of the Chicago Tribune, appointed in 2006 later serving because the Tribune theater critic since 2002. Up to now, he labored as a theater critic for the Los Angeles Instances, the San Diego Union-Tribune, the St. Paul Pioneer Press, and the Dallas Instances-Usher in. He began out as arts essayist and movie critic for the Dual Towns weekly Town Pages, year serving as movie critic for Minnesota Society Radio. Since 2015, Phillips has been the guide/educator for the U of I Faculty of Media Roger Ebert Fellowship and had the distinction to co-host the nationally syndicated TV sequence “At the Movies,” first reverse Richard Roeper and, next, A.O. Scott. He additionally presented 100+ movies, from “Citizen Kane” to “Total Recall,” at the common benevolence gadget referred to as Turner Vintage Films.
ERIC PIERSON
Eric Pierson is a coach of Conversation on the College of San Diego. He has been a part of the school at USD for twenty-four years. As a student, he has written on quite a lot of subjects that come with movie distribution within the Seventies, dislike staff recruiting by way of the Web, movie competition pedagogy, minority pictures in media, and tv historical past. His paintings has seemed in each the scholarly and customery press.
His purpose is to develop scholarship that engages in conversations with those that are each outside and inside of the academy. He’s interested in conversations that specialize in the tactics during which the industry practices of the movie and tv industries atmosphere and provide content material hooked up to problems with race, magnificence, gender, and marginalized teams.”
He may also be distinguishable within the documentaries Infiltrating Hollywood: The Stand and Fall of the Spook Who Sat by means of The Door and Guard Tale: The Press Your Success Scandal. In 2018, he collaborated with Academy Award winner Ruth E. Carter on Heroes and Sheroes: The Artwork and Affect of Ruth E. Carter in Cloudy Cinemaa touring exhibition of her dress designs; his movie histories accompanied the designs.
Eric holds two levels from the College of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a BFA in Positive Arts, and a Ph.D. from the Institute of Communications Analysis.
CARLA RENATA
Carla Renata, aka The Curvy Critic, is delighted to go back to Ebertfest. Her opinions and/or op-eds had been revealed in Selection, The Wrap, The Cherry Selections, Sundance.org, Sotheby’s, and RogerEbert.com.
She is a extremely sought-after host/moderator who had the privilege to host a night of The Cloudy Revel in on Movie for Turner Classic Movies subsidized by means of AAFCA, in addition to a pervasive Visitor Movie Knowledgeable contributor for Fox 11 LA, Just right Date LA, NBC Information, REELZ Channel, The Wave Staff, ITV, BBC, Reside Now on Fox and Fox Soul’s The Cloudy Record.
A graduate of Howard College, Carla is a proud member of AAFCA (African American Movie Critics Affiliation), (OAFFC), The On-line Affiliation of Feminine Movie Critics, Tomato-meter licensed critic on Rotten Tomatoes and (CCA) Critics Selection Affiliation, the place she serves as a member in their Board of Administrators and Co-President in their Documentary Area.
Her award-winning podcast, The Curvy Critic with Carla Renata, has garnered over 13 million perspectives and streams are living weekly. It options opinions, information, and interviews with skill in entrance and at the back of the digicam.
TODD RENDLEMAN
Todd Rendleman is the Director of Movie Research and Trainer of Conversation at Seattle Pacific College the place he teaches movie artwork, historical past, and grievance. He’s the creator of Rule of Thumb: Ebert on the Films (Bloomsbury, 2012) and an alumnus of the College of Illinois. He deposited his dissertation the morning of the primary occasion of the primary Ebertfest in April 1999. He lives in Seattle, Washington.
MATT SINGER
Matt Singer is the essayist and movie critic of ScreenCrush and a member of the Unused York Movie Critics Circle. He’s additionally the creator of a number of books, together with Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Modified Films Endlessly and Wonder’s Spider-Guy: From Wonderful to Impressive. He lives in Brooklyn together with his spouse and daughters.
DANA STEVENS
Dana Stevens is the movie critic at Slate and a co-host of the Slate Tradition Gabfest, the brochure’s weekly tradition podcast. She has additionally written for the Unused York Instances, the Washington Submit, the Atlantic and Bookforum. Her first keep, Digicam Guy: Buster Keatonthe Daybreak of Cinema and the Invention of the 20th Century, got here out in 2022 and is now out in paperback.
BRIAN TALLERICO
Brian Tallerico, the Essayist of RogerEbert.com, has coated tv, movie, video video games, Blu-ray/DVD, interviews, and leisure information for 20 years on-line, on radio, and in print.
As well as, he’s a TV/streaming editor for Vulture.com & The Playlist, and freelancer for more than one shops, together with The Unused York Instances. He additionally serves as President of the Chicago Movie Critics Affiliation, co-produces the Chicago Critics Movie Competition each and every Might, and is a usual visitor on radio stations and podcasts.
You’ll be able to apply him on Twitter @Brian_Tallerico. Learn his solutions to our Film Love Questionnaire right here.