Joe Biden has appointed 14 members to the President’s Advisory Committee on The Arts, in which they will serve as representatives for the Kennedy Center.
Eugene William Stetson III, senior fellow at The Atlantic Council and a film producer, will serve as chair.
Other members include Andi Bernstein, partner at venture capital firm The 98; Christopher Carrera, president of Carrera-Willowbridge, LLC; arts advocates Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel and Barbara Gamson; philanthropist Melissa Hedden; Lorna Johnson, chair and CEO of Lmj Global Enterprises; busineswoman and author Bonnie Lautenberg; P.R. and public affairs strategist Allison Putala; Sunil Puri, CEO and founder of First Midwest Group; Charles Pohlad, director at Pohlad Investment Management, LLC; Diane Robertson, documentary producer and proprietor of a horticultural design firm; residential and commercial developer Thomas Safran; and Andrew Tavakoli, principal and CEO of Tavaco Properties.
The President’s Advisory Committee on the Arts was established in 1958 by President Dwight Eisenhower.
Eugene William Stetson III, senior fellow at The Atlantic Council and a film producer, will serve as chair.
Other members include Andi Bernstein, partner at venture capital firm The 98; Christopher Carrera, president of Carrera-Willowbridge, LLC; arts advocates Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel and Barbara Gamson; philanthropist Melissa Hedden; Lorna Johnson, chair and CEO of Lmj Global Enterprises; busineswoman and author Bonnie Lautenberg; P.R. and public affairs strategist Allison Putala; Sunil Puri, CEO and founder of First Midwest Group; Charles Pohlad, director at Pohlad Investment Management, LLC; Diane Robertson, documentary producer and proprietor of a horticultural design firm; residential and commercial developer Thomas Safran; and Andrew Tavakoli, principal and CEO of Tavaco Properties.
The President’s Advisory Committee on the Arts was established in 1958 by President Dwight Eisenhower.
- 3/11/2022
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
(In Part One of this interview, we discussed the making of Charles Pinion’s first feature film on video, the skater punk rock splatter movie Twisted Issues. In Part Two below, the Underground Film Journal attempted to discuss his second feature video, Red Spirit Lake, but get diverted into Pinion’s brief foray into film.)
Underground Film Journal: It seems like you had a really good reaction to Twisted Issues that I’m sure helped inspire you to make another video feature. How did the release of Red Spirit Lake compare to the release of your first film?
Charles Pinion: Funny, it’s only through retrospect and in reading the comments of others that I had any notion that Twisted Issues was a “seminal work of the shot-on-video movement” (a pull-quote I used for some time from Timothy Thompsen, who did a zine called Lunatic Fringe). My goals, then and now,...
Underground Film Journal: It seems like you had a really good reaction to Twisted Issues that I’m sure helped inspire you to make another video feature. How did the release of Red Spirit Lake compare to the release of your first film?
Charles Pinion: Funny, it’s only through retrospect and in reading the comments of others that I had any notion that Twisted Issues was a “seminal work of the shot-on-video movement” (a pull-quote I used for some time from Timothy Thompsen, who did a zine called Lunatic Fringe). My goals, then and now,...
- 5/5/2014
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
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