GRAFTON NUNES has been Founding Dean of the Emerson College School of the Arts in Boston, Massachusetts since January of 1998, offering undergraduate and graduate programs in performing arts, film, television, creative writing and publishing. Previous to Emerson, he directed the Columbia University Program in Theatre Management and Producing. He also administered Columbia’s Film Division under Milos Forman and Stefan Sharff and served as the Associate Dean of the School of the Arts. He worked with Paul Schrader at Paramount Pictures on American Gigolo and Light of Day and co-produced The Loveless, a feature film directed by Kathryn Bigelow and Monty Montgomery, starring Willem Dafoe. He has written extensively on the film and broadcast industries for Millimeter, American Cinematographer, The Independent and VideoPro. He is a member of the International Council of Fine Arts Deans and the European League of Institutes of the Arts. He serves on the Board of Ploughshares, the literary journal, and is on the selection committee of the Liguria Study Center of the Bogliosco Foundation.

Cartoonist, playwright, screenwriter and children’s book author & illustrator JULES FEIFFER has been turning contemporary urban anxiety into witty and revealing commentary for over fifty years. From his Village Voice cartoons (see Explainers: The Complete Village Voice Strips, 1956-1966) to his plays and screenplays including Little Murders and Carnal Knowledge, Feiffer’s satirical outlook has helped define us politically, sexually and socially. Other plays: Knock Knock, Grown Ups, A Bad Friend and Elliot Loves (featuring David Hyde Pierce). He teaches a writing class at Stony Brook Southampton, and this summer will be in residence at Dartmouth College teaching Graphic Humor in the 20th Century. Most recently he illustrated his daughter Kate Feiffer’s children’s book Which Puppy? about choosing a dog for the Obamas. He has won a Pulitzer Prize and a George Polk Memorial Award for his cartoons; an Obie for his plays; an Academy Award for the animation of his cartoon satire, Munro. He has been honored with major retrospectives at the New York Historical Society, the Library of Congress and The School of Visual Arts.

JOEL RAPHAELSON grew up in west Los Angeles and New York City, in accordance with his father’s work in the theater and in movies. Mr Raphaelson retired in 1995 after thirty-seven years of working for Ogilvy & Mather, a worldwide advertising firm, in New York, Toronto, Paris and Chicago. He ended up with the preposterous title of Senior Vice-President, International Creative Services. Joel is the co-author (with Ken Roman, former chairman of Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide) of Writing That Works, a popular book on business writing published in 1981. (Expanded, updated version published in 1992 by Harper-Collins, third edition 2001. Total sales over 100,000. Called "the Strunk & White of business writing.") He also compiled and edited The Unpublished David Ogilvy.

JAMES HARVEY is a playwright, essayist and critic. He is the author of Romantic Comedy In Hollywood: From Lubitsch to Sturges, and of Movie Love in the Fifties. His work has appeared in The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review, Film Comment, the Threepenny Review, Opera News and Variety. He is a Professor Emeritus in English at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He has taught film at the New School and at UC Berkeley, curated film series at the Museum of Modern Art and at the LA County Museum of Art, and he appears in the recent Turner Classic Movies documentary film, “Cary Grant: A Class Apart”. He lives in Brooklyn and is currently writing a book on personality in the movies, to be published by Farrar Straus/Faber and Faber.