Morelia International Film Festival

Caroline Baron

Caroline Baron recently produced Sony Pictures Classics' Capote, nominated for five Academy Awards including Best Picture. Baron produced the cross­cultural hit Monsoon Wedding, winner of numerous awards worldwide. She be­ gan her career in 1983 working on the cult classic film, The Toxic Avenger. Caroline has served as the associate producer for the hit television series The Wonder Years and co­pro­ duced such films as Center Stage, Flawless, Addicted to Love, The Santa Clause, and Mira Nair's Kama Sutra. Caroline produced Witness to the Mob for Tribeca Produc­ tions with Robert DeNiro and Jane Rosenthal.

Caroline founded the non­profit organization FilmAid International in 1999. FilmAid's programs provide life­saving information on hiv/aids, landmine­awareness, health and hygiene, women's rights and conflict resolution. The programs ease psychological suffering, foster understanding, engage the mind and spark the imagination.

In 2005, Caroline and her husband and producing partner Anthony Weintraub established A­Line Pictures. A­Line's projects include film adaptations of two non­fiction books: Black­ water, an alarming look into the country's largest private military contractor, and Dangerous Doses an expose of counterfeit medicine in the United States. The team is also producing film adaptations of two books by the best­selling novelist Ann Patchett, Bel Canto and The Magician's Assistant. Caroline lives in New York with Anthony and their two sons, Asher and Emmanuel.

Alex Rivera

Alex Rivera is a digital media artist and filmmaker. His fil­ mography includes four films: three shorts, Papapapá (1995), Why Cybraceros? (1997) and The Sixth Section (2003), and one feature, Sleep Dealer (2007), which premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival and won two awards, including the Waldo Salt Award for best screenplay. He is also a Sun­ dance and a Rockefeller Fellow. His work, which addresses the concerns of the Latino community using humor, satire, and metaphor, has been screened at the Berlin International Film Festival, the Telluride Film Festival, and the Guggenheim Mu­ seum, among other international venues.

Steve Seid

Steve Seid is the Video Curator at the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley, California. During the last two decades, he has or­ ganized over 700 programs of video art, film, and new media. These programs typically circulate around cultural and aesthetic ideas with experimental media being the prevalent form showcased. Seid also oversees an on­going video preservation project and conducts workshops on visual literacy for high school teachers. He has taught video aesthetics and history courses at the University of California, Berkeley, San Francisco State University, the California College of Arts, and the San Francisco Art Institute. His large­scale program, "Whose Side Are You On?: The Border," toured Brazil under the sponsorship of Itau Cultural. He co­curated the first museum retrospective of Ant Farm, the '60s/'70s art collective and creators of Cadillac Ranch and Media Burn, which toured through 2006. Seid also curated the 52nd Robert Flaherty Film Seminar which took place at Vassar College in spring, 2006. In progress is a fifty­ year history of moving image art from the San Francisco Bay Area, a co­edited book and exhibition scheduled for 2009.