Discussion Panels
Norman Denzin, director 
(UI Institute for Communications Research)

all panels are free

Thursday 27 April, 10-12:00; Union, General Lounge

Chair: 
Roger Ebert

Participants: 
Donna Cox (Associate Director, Electrical Imaging Lab, Art & Design); Dave Harvey; Larry Smarr (director, National Center for Supercomputing Applications); Brand Fortner (founder of Spyglass and Fortner Research); Henry Jaglom (director, co-writer, actor "Deja Vu"); Larry Meistrich (CEO The Shooting Gallery); Richard J. Leskosky (UI Cinema Studies)

Panel Two: 
"Documentary Film"

Thursday 27 April, 1-3:00; Union, General Lounge

Chair: 
Nate Kohn (Univ. of Georgia/Ebertfest Director)

Participants: 
Ramona Curry (UI Cinema Studies/English); Chris Smith (director "American Movie"); Tod S. Lending (director, producer "Legacy"); Sarah Price (producer "American Movie"); Jay Rosenstein (director "In Whose Honor"/UI Journalism); Frances Gateward (Teaching Associate, Unit for Cinema Studies)

Panel Three: 
"Looking at Looking in Overlooked Films"

Friday 28 April, 9-10:45; Union, General Lounge

hosted/sponsored by the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities

Chair: 
Michael Bérubé (Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities/UI English)

Participants: 
Christine Catanzarite (Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities); Charles Lane (director, writer, star "Sidewalk Stories"); Rob Sitch (director "The Castle"); Paul Cox (director, writer, producer "A Woman's Tale"); David Desser (UI Cinema Studies)

Panel Four: 
"Women and Films"

Friday, April 28th, ll-1:45; Union, General Lounge

Chair: 
Andrea Press (UI Communications Research)

Participants: 
Ayesha Dharkar (actress "The Terrorist"); Rita Nachtmann (actress, screenwriter, playwright); Pat Gill (UI Institute for Communications Research/Women's Studies); Victoria Foyt (star, co-writer "Daja Vu")

Panel Five:
"Tim Zinnemann Introduces a 45min. Documentary on his Father's Career, Edited by Walter Murch"

Friday, April 28th, 10:30 to 11:45, English 160 Multimedia Classroom
A class-room visit to George Lebron's English 104: Introduction to Film
(with room for 30 guests)

Chair: 
Joel Super (Newman Foundation; whose UIUC dissertation explored Fred Zinnemann's film style and career)

All panel discussions will take place at the Illini Union, 1401 W. Green, Urbana, in the General Lounge, 2^nd Floor North.

For more information, see the website at www.ebertfest.com or contact: Assistant Director Melissa McKillip at mmckilli@uiuc.edu, (217)244-0552, Festival Manager Nickie Dalton at  n-dalton@uiuc.edu; (217)-333-2350; Fax: (217)-333-9882; or Festival Director Nate Kohn at n-kohn@uiuc.edu. or (706) 542-4972.