DEAN OTTO
Dean Otto (Walker Art Center Film/Video Associate Curator) has been
active in film and video programming for 22 years. Over the past 13
years at Walker he has programmed the 19-part Rainer Werner Fassbinder
film series, managed the international tour of the series Magnetic
North at 17 sites, and coordinated the residencies of Arthur Dong,
Cheryl Dunye, Christian Marclay and Craig Baldwin. He curates the
annual Queer Takes program at Walker after serving as the programmer
for the Minneapolis/St. Paul LGBT Film Festival for several years for
Minnesota Film Arts. He also served as President of the Board of
Midwest Media Artists' Access Center in St. Paul during his two-year
term.  Otto is co-curator of the MNTV series on Twin Cities Public
Television and co-directed the short Minnesota Mean with Marjie Thieman that premiered at the Flaming Film Festival in May 2001.


MARY TRIMARCO
Mary Trimarco is the Managing Director of the Washington State Film
Office where she promotes the state for filmmaking and helps make
Washington a great place to shoot a movie. Mary recently moved to
Seattle from Asheville, NC, where she was the director of the Western
NC Film Commission since 2004. Prior to NC, Mary worked in television
commercial production as a producer in Baltimore/D.C and before that in
New York. Before her film career, Mary worked in commercial banking in
New York.  She is from Illinois and went to University of Illinois
where she graduated with a B.S. in Finance. Mary lives in Seattle with
her husband, Neal Thompson, and her two sons, Sean and Leo.

 
ROB MOSS
Robb Moss's recent film, The Same River Twice, premiered at the 2003
Sundance Film Festival, was nominated for a 2004 Independent Spirit
award, and played theatrically in more than eighty cities across North
America. Other films have shown at the Telluride Film Festival,
screened at Lincoln Center and the Museum of Modern Art in New York
City, and at numerous venues around the world, including in Amsterdam,
Paris, Munich, Sydney, Ankara, and Rio de Janeiro. As a cinematographer
he has shot films in Ethiopia, Hungary, Japan, Liberia, Mexico,
Turkey—on such subjects as famine, genocide and the large-scale
structure of the universe—many of these pieces were shown on Public
Television. He was on the 2004 documentary jury at the Sundance Film
Festival and has thrice served as a creative advisor for the Sundance
Institute documentary labs. He is the past board chair and president of
the Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers and has taught
filmmaking at Harvard University for the past twenty years.
Rob is also the director of Secrecy, which will play NWFF October 10-16.

 

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