GEOFFREY GILMORE is the Director of the Sundance Film Festival. He has been responsible for film selection and the overall direction of programming since 1990. In addition, Gilmore has been a consultant for the Sundance Film Channel since 1996 and also serves as consultant to the Sundance Cinemas. He has directed the Sundance Institute's Annual Independent Producers Conference for the last 16 years and worked with the Institute on numerous international and national projects and symposia. For 14 years, he served as head of the UCLA Film Television Archive's programming. Currently, he teaches a course in the UCLA Department of Film and Television on independent production and has also lectured in Paris, Germany, Japan, and China. He served on the board of the Independent Feature Project/West and the advisory board of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, and he has served on the council for the National Endowment for the Arts, the California Arts Council, the Rockefeller Foundation, and other organizations and committees. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and did his post-graduate work at UCLA.