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Board of Advisors
George W. Perkins
George W. Perkins is a two time Golden Globe winning and multiple Emmy award nominated producer with over 20 years of experience in film and television. He won the Producers' Guild of America award for Producer of the Year in Longform 2003 for Live from Baghdad. Currently he is working as Executive Producer on the hit series Desperate Housewives on ABC. Charles Skouras
Charles Skouras has won two awards for Outstanding Directorial Achievement from the Directors Guild of America as Unit Production Manager on the Director's team: Movies for Television - Live From Baghdad in 2003, and Dramatic Specials - Don King: Only in America in 1998. He has over 20 years of experience in film and television and is currently working as Producer on the hit series Desperate Housewives on ABC. Mark Snyder
Mark Snyder is a member of the faculty in psychology at the University of Minnesota, where he holds the McKnight Presidential Chair in Psychology and is the founding Director of the Center for the Study of the Individual and Society. He received his B. A. from McGill University in 1968 and his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1972. His research interests include theoretical and empirical issues associated with the motivational foundations of individual and collective behavior, and the applications of basic theory and research in personality and social psychology to addressing practical problems confronting society. Among Dr. Snyder's honors and awards are the Society for Personality and Social Psychology’s Donald T. Campbell Award for Distinguished Contributions in Social Psychology (2004), the Gordon Allport Intergroup Relations Prize of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (2006), and the Lifetime Career Award of the International Society for Self and Identity (2007). Dr. Snyder is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (since 1978) and the American Psychological Society (since 1988).He has served as President of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, on the Board of Directors of the American Psychological Society, and the Council of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues. He is also the author of the book, Public Appearances/Private Realities: The Psychology of Self-Monitoring and co-editor of the volumes Cooperation in Modern Society: Promoting the Welfare of Communities, States, and Organizations and Cooperation in Society: Fostering Community Action and Civic Participation, and Cooperation: The Political Psychology of Effective Human Interaction. 
Janet Walker
Janet Walker is Professor and former chair of the Department of Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she is
also affiliated with the Women's Studies Program. Her research has been supported by the American Council of Learned Societies and the National
Endowment for the Humanities, and she is the recipient of a Distinguished Teaching Award from UCSB. Walker's essays have been published as book
chapters and in journals including SCREEN, SIGNS, WIDE ANGLE, and CAMERA OBSCURA, and she is the author or editor of COUCHING RESISTANCE: WOMEN, FILM, AND PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHIATRY (Minnesota University Press, 1993), FEMINISM AND DOCUMENTARY (co-edited with Diane Waldman; Minnesota University Press, 1999), and WESTERNS: FILMS THROUGH HISTORY (Routledge, 2001). Documentary film is a primary area of specialization for Walker and her most recent book, TRAUMA CINEMA: DOCUMENTING INCEST AND THE HOLOCAUST (University of California Press, 2005), concerns the nonfiction filmic representation of catastrophic past events. She is currently Project Director of Video Portraits of Survival, a series of expressive documentary shorts about residents of Santa Barbara who are survivors and refugees of the Holocaust. |
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