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Christine Vachon is an Independent Spirit Award and Gotham Award winner who co-founded powerhouse Killer Films with partner Pamela Koffler in 1995. Over three decades, they have produced more than 100 films, including some of the most celebrated and important American independent features: KIDS, I SHOT ANDY WARHOL, HAPPINESS, BOYS DON’T CRY, HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH, FAR FROM HEAVEN, ONE HOUR PHOTO, STILL ALICE, CAROL, BEATRIZ AT DINNER, and DARK WATERS. In television, Vachon executive-produced the Emmy and Golden Globe-awarded miniseries MILDRED PIERCE for HBO as well as the Emmy Award-winning limited series HALSTON for Netflix. Recent releases include Todd Haynes’ MAY DECEMBER (Netflix), starring Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore, and Celine Song’s PAST LIVES (A24), which earned Vachon her first Oscar nomination in the Best Picture category this year.

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Jun Oshima is a New York City based film director and cinematographer. Jun worked in advertising for 6 years at Tokyo Advertising and JWT before coming to New York City. Then he studied film production and theory at New School MA in Media Studies and Film program. He worked as a cinematographer on the 2009 Adobe Achievement Award and 2010 Student Academy Award winning project, SURFACE FILM. As a professional filmmaker, Jun’s projects have included corporate commercials, documentaries, independent fiction, TV shows, Music Videos and more. Jun’s extensive client list includes Google Creative Lab, Facebook, Vanity Fair Magazine, MoMA Design Store, and Conde Nast, where he has had the distinct pleasure to work with and shoot international icons such as Keith Richards, Busta Ryhmes, and DJ Spooky. Jun shot TV feature documentary for NHK (Japanese National Public Broadcasting) on the 14 time Grammy nominee Jazz pianist/composer Toshiko Akiyoshi in 2016.

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Tal S. Shamir has directed, produced, written, and edited dozens of short films that have been presented at a wide range of film festivals, galleries, and museums; he has won many awards, including a Gold Medal in the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences’ 2011 Student Oscars, for his film The Vermeers.

While serving in the Israeli navy for six years, Tal created and commanded the Special-Ops Video Team, demonstrating the possibility of analyzing the navy’s special forces training through video.

As part of his MA in film studies, Tal also created and produced the RUFF CUTS and FINE CUTS film showcases, which allowed film students to share, discuss, and improve their films. This platform has become the central ongoing film-screening event of The New School’s media studies department.

Tal holds a PhD in philosophy, film, and media from the European Graduate School, and his first book on cinema, titled Cinematic Philosophy, published by Palgrave Macmillan/Springer, came out in 2016 to rave reviews.

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