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DAVID ZEIGER:
Director, SIR! NO SIR!
David Zeiger's films follow the journeys of everyday people during times of dramatic change. His twoyears as an organizer for the GI Movement during the height of the Vietnam War formed the basis for Sir! No Sir!, which won the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the 2005 Los Angeles Film Festival and was in theaters this past Spring. In 2001 he created, produced and directed the landmark PBS series Senior Year, which followed 15 teenagers through their tumultuous last year at the most diverse school in Los Angeles, Fairfax High. 2003's Funny Old Guys for HBO recounted the last months in the life of TV and film writer Frank Tarloff. In 1996, Zeiger made his most personal film, The Band, for the PBS series P.O.V. It tells his own story of coming to terms with his son's growth from child to adult, and the tragic death - several years earlier - of his other son.
Panelists:
The current list of 2006 Filmmaker Forum speakers:
- Stephanie Allain (producer, Hustle & Flow)
- Aric Avelino (director, American Gun)
- Peter Broderick (Paradigm Consulting)
- Effie T. Brown (producer, Real Women Have Curves)
- Caldecott Chubb (ChubbCo) [Indie Community Lunch Hour host]
- Howard Cohen (Roadside Attractions)
- Patrick Creadon (director, Wordplay)
- Eric d'Arbeloff (Roadside Attractions)
- Mark Damon (Foresight Unlimited)
- Neill dela Llana (co-writer/co-director, Cavite)
- Kirby Dick (director, This Film is Not Yet Rated)
- Michael Donaldson (lawyer and author, Negotiating for Dummies) [Indie Community Lunch Hour host]
- Lindsay Doran (producer, Stranger Than Fiction)
- Dan Dubiecki (director, Thank You For Smoking)
- Udy Epstein (Seventh Art Releasing) [Indie Community Lunch Hour host]
- Mesh Flinders (lonelygirl15)
- Ian Gamazon (co-writer/co-Director, Cavite)
- Richard Gladstein (FilmColony)
- Micah Green (CAA)
- Rebecca Green (Linda Obst Productions) [Indie Community Lunch Hour host]
- Callum Greene (co-producer, Marie Antoinette)
- Matthew Greenfield (Fox Searchlight)
- Robert Greenwald (Director, Iraq for Sale )
- Greg Harrison (director, November) [Indie Community Lunch Hour host]
- Preston Holmes (producer, Waist Deep)
- Craig Kestel (William Morris Agency) [Indie Community Lunch Hour host]
- Sam Kitt (executive producer, Sucker Free City)
- Richard Klubeck (UTA)
- Ted Kroeber (producer, American Gun)
- Linda Lichter (Lichter, Grossman, Nichols, Adler, and Goodman)
- David Magdael (TC:DM & Associates)
- Gail Mutrux (producer, Kinsey)
- Christine O'Malley (producer, Wordplay)
- Joe Pichirallo (Overbrook Entertainment) [Indie Community Lunch Hour host]
- John Pierson (keynote speaker)
- Mark and Michael Polish (The Astronaut Farmer)
- Rich Raddon (director, Los Angeles Film Festival)
- Peggy Rajski (executive producer, Bee Season)
- Ben Rekhi (producer/director, Waterborne)
- Danielle Renfrew (producer, November)
- Kendall Morgan Rhodes (producer, Southland Tales)
- Rena Ronson (William Morris Independent)
- Ted Sarandos (Netflix)
- Jeff Schenck (Regent Studios)
- John Sloss (Cinetic Media)
- Victoria Thomas (casting director)
- Nancy Utley (Fox Searchlight)
- Cameron Watson (writer/director, Our Very Own)
- Eric Watson (producer, The Fountain)
- Lance Weiler (producer/writer/director, Head Trauma)
- Wash Westmoreland (co-writer/co-director, Quinceañera)
- Greg Whiteley (New York Doll)
- Caveh Zahedi (director, I Am a Sex Addict)
- Amotz Zakai (Echo Lake Entertainment) [Indie Community Lunch Hour host]
- David Zeiger (producer/director, Sir! No Sir!)
