The Silver Lake Film Festival is co-directed and co-founded by Evangeline Griego and Greg Ptacek.

                                Mr. Ptacek is a former film executive with New Line Cinema, Gramercy Pictures and The Walt Disney Studio. An award-winning nonfiction author, he is also the former film industry reporter for The Hollywood Reporter. Currently, he consults in marketing and publishing tie-ins for a diverse entertainment-industry clientele.            
Greg Ptacek
email: greg@silverlakefilmfestival.org
phone: 323.660.1935

            

                               Ms. Griego was the Festival Manager for two consecutive seasons for the annual Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Film Festival OUTFEST. She is an independent award-winning documentary filmmaker and was the in-house producer for the J. Paul Getty Trust. She also has worked with the Walt Disney Studio, Morgan Creek Productions and MGM. She is currently producing a documentary for the Environmental Protection Agency.

Evangeline Griego
email: vangie@silverlakefilmfestival.org
phone/fax: 323.221.1763



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                             P. DAVID EBERSOLE is an award-winning filmmaker (Straight Right, Death In Venice CA), and he was recently singled out by Filmmaker Magazine as one of 25 New Indie Faces to Watch. A veteran of the independent circuit with credits as a writer, director and producer, his films have played around the world at over 100 festivals. He is on the annual judging committee that chooses directing fellows for the American Film Instutute, and he teaches film and video production at both USC's School of Cinema-TV and Pitzer College in Claremont. A Silver Lake resident for more than ten years, he is also the founding editor-in-chief of the notorious Silver Lake 2000 webzine (www.silverlake-2000.com).

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                 For the past 8 years, Bartok has been in charge of programming for the American Cinemateque in Los Angeles, organizing retrospectives, festivals, and premieres of restored film classics at the restored Egyptian Theatre. He's also a regular commentator on Hollywood history for American Movie Classics' BEHIND THE SCREEN program, discussing films like Rebel Without a Cause and the Manchurian Candidate. He's moderated live interviews with guests including actors Charlton Heston, Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh Laura Dern, Dennis Hopper and Gena Rowlands; comedians Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle and Terry Jones (from Monty Python) and Richard Pryor; directors, James Cameron, Wim Wenders, Peter Greenway, Werner Herzog, Bernardo Bertolucci and Ang Lee. He's been profiled and interviewed for the L.A. Weekly, Daily Variety and MS-NBC's "Edgewise" series.

                 Jesse Lerner is a documentary film and video maker based in Los Angeles. His work has screened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the National Anthropology Museum in Mexico City, the Reina Sofâa Museum in Madrid, New York's Guggenheim Museum, the Sydney Biennale, the Los Angles International Film Festival, the Film Society of Lincoln Center, and other festivals and museums internationally. His short film Natives (1991, with Scott Sterling) and the feature-length experimental documentaries Frontierland/Fronterilandia (1995, with RubÚn Ortiz-Torres) and Ruins (1999) have won numerous prizes at film festivals in the United States, Latin America and Japan. He has received grants and fellowships including the Western States Regional Media Arts Fellowship (N.E.A.), the California Arts Council fellowship, the Brody Family Fund, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Fideicomiso para la cultura MÚxico-EE.UU (three time recipient) and a Fulbright. In addition to his work as a filmmaker, his critical essays on photography, film, and video have appeared in Afterimage, History of Photography, The Independent, Visual Anthropology Review, The Spectator, La Pusmoderna, Blimp Film Magazine, Coil, Wide Angle, Poliester, El Nacional and other media arts journals. He has taught at the University of California San Diego, Bennington College, California Institute of the Arts, the Centro de la Imagen in Mexico City and is currently the MacArthur Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the Claremont Colleges.

                 Rita Gonzalez is a video artist, writer and independent curator working in Los Angeles. Her videos have been screened at l.a. freewaves (at the Geffen Contemporary Center, Self-Help Graphics and the Santa Monica Museum), the Armand Hammer Museum, the Center of Contemporary Art, Seattle, MIX New York and MIX Mexico, as well as other international festivals. Gonzalez and co-curator Jesse Lerner have been traveling with Mexperimental Cinema, a survey of avant-garde and marginal media arts from Mexico. The program has traveled to Pacific Film Archives, Guggenheim Museums in New York and Bilbao, Film Forum Los Angeles, and the Harvard Film Archives. Currently, Gonzalez is pursuing a Ph.D. in the Critical Studies Program in the Department of Film and Television at UCLA. Her writings about contemporary art and experimental media have appeared in Wide Angle, Poliester, ifilm and COIL.