Perry Miller Adato

Perry Miller Adato is a major figure in the art of biographical and historical filmmaking. Her 1970 documentary, Gertrude Stein: When This You See, Remember Me is one of the key pioneering works of the historical documentary genre. Using revolutionary techniques that have been widely imitated, her film makes use of old photographs, letters, readings, art objects, songs, newsreel footage, and interviews to bring its subject to life. In 1977 Adato became the first woman to receive the prestigious Directors Guild of America Award for her film Georgia O’Keeffe. Adato went on to receive that same award three more times for Eugene O’Neill: A Glory Of Ghosts (1986), Carl Sandburg: Echoes And Silences (1982), and Picasso: A Painter's Diary (1980).

Ernesto Santalla

Ernesto Santalla is one of the architects featured in the film The Green House: Design It, Build It, Live It. Santalla was born in Cuba and received a degree in Architecture from Cornell University in 1984, when he moved to Washington, DC, and became a registered architect. Since then, he has contributed to the changing skyline of DC and worked on projects in the United States, Puerto Rico and Europe. His work has been widely published and garnered numerous awards.

Joseph Burns

Joseph Burns will speak on a panel after the film Division Street. Burns grew up in the Mississippi River floodplain near St. Louis, MO.  At age 7, he found highway survey stakes cutting through the heart of the bottomland forest behind his home.  This alarming discovery led him on a lifelong journey to study and protect natural areas.  This journey has lead him to work across the western United States as a wildlife ecologist working on issues related to endangered species and forest ecology.  Burns is a Certified Wildlife Biologist and member of The Wildlife Society, Society of American Forestry, and the Society of Conservation Biology.   He currently serves as the National Transportation Ecology Program Leader with the U.S. Forest Service in Washington D.C.