AIFF Annouces a New Director of Programming

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The Ashland Independent Film Festival has selected Richard Herskowitz, an experienced programmer of festivals in Texas, Virginia, and Oregon, to succeed Joanne Feinberg as the film festival’s new Director of Programming. Feinberg resigned recently after eleven years as the film festival’s Director of Programming.

Herskowitz has been the artistic director of the Houston Cinema Arts Festival since its inception in 2009, and will continue in this role, programming from his home base in Oregon. He taught cinema studies and programmed film festivals at the University of Oregon from 2009-15, and continues to curate media art exhibitions for UO’s Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art.From 1994 to 2008, Mr. Herskowitz was director of the Virginia Film Festival in Charlottesville and was named Tourism Person of the Year in 2007 by the Charlottesville Albemarle Convention and Visitors Bureau. Prior to this, he directed the Cornell Cinema media arts center, where he presented over 500 films annually from 1982-94. In Ithaca, N.Y. he also served as the film and video curator at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art and received the Human Rights Award in 1988 from the Tompkins County Human Rights Commission for “innovative programming of films addressing human rights issues.” He has been a programmer multiple times and president of the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar and chair of its 50th Anniversary Committee…more

– from Ashland Independent Film Festival Page

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