Selection Panel

Gretjen Clausing

Since 1989, Gretjen Clausing has been an active member of the Philadelphia media arts community as a programmer, videomaker and activist. At present she is the program director for Film at the Prince. Prior to that, she worked at the Neighborhood Film/Video Project at International House from 1989 to 1998, where she was one of the original staff members for the Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema and coordinator of the Philadelphia Independent/ Film Video Association (PIFVA). She is an advocate for the field of media arts and has been a juror, panelist, guest curator and consultant for many local and national festivals and cultural organizations.

Rich Goldberg

A little-known loner/shut-in, Rich (a.k.a. G. Rich) has produced film, television, music and theater through G. Rich Entertainment, an arts facilitation organization dedicated to film and the arts in Philadelphia. He has also served with such arts organizations as PIFVA, 1812 Productions and the Philadelphia Fringe Festival. The son of a dancer and a physicist, he is pretty much a confused scientist, raised by a pack of dancers. Send $9.95 to G. Rich Bio for your copy today! In his own words, "I don’t do anything, but I get things done."

Mike Lemon, C.S.A.

Mike Lemon has been a casting director in Philadelphia for 18 years and is honored to be the only local member of the Casting Society of America, the professional association for casting directors. He cast principal roles locally for Philadelphia, The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, Beloved, Twelve Monkeys, Up Close and Personal and Fallen. He and his crew at MikeLemonCasting have cast over 8,500 projects including feature films, commercials, industrials and voiceovers. Mike was also an actor for over 12 years and was a member of SAG and AFTRA with experience on stage, on camera and in the sound studio. Bringing his performance experience to casting, he has earned a reputation as an "actor’s director" who brings out the best in auditioning talent. He is a co-founder and host of The LAB, a filmmakers workshop which has inspired and facilitated the production of seven independent films in the last seven years. He is on the advisory board of the Theatre Alliance of Greater Philadelphia and has close ties with the Philadelphia Film Office, PIFVA, the Festival of World Cinema and the Sharon Pinkenson Film Project. Mike is dedicated to his work, his community and his seven children, and is widely known for wearing Pink Panther and Bugs Bunny slippers whenever possible.

Eugene Martin

Eugene Martin is an award-winning writer/director whose work has been screened internationally. His new feature film, Diary of a City Priest, starring David Morse, screened at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival. His second feature, Edge City (1998), won the Grand Jury Prize at the 1998 Hamptons International Film Festival. The film had its American premiere at the San Francisco International Film Festival and has screened in over 15 international film festivals and at the Directors Guild of America in New York. Martin’s shorts and documentary works have been screened at the American Film Institute, the National Gallery of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, on PBS and on the Sundance Film Channel. Martin graduated with an MFA in film production from Temple University in 1990. Among his short films are Invisible Cities (1991), Open Distance (1992), for which Martin was nominated for an Emmy Award and Cynthia’s Window (1988). Martin’s first dramatic feature film, Two Plus One, premiered at the Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema in 1994. In January 1995, Martin was a part of the first Slamdance Film Festival, where Two Plus One premiered nationally and was acquired for distribution by Phaedra Cinema.

Nadine Patterson

Nadine Patterson has been making independent documentary films for over 12 years. Anna Russell Jones: Praisesong for a Pioneering Spirit is about the life and multiple careers of artist/designer/war veteran and nurse Mrs. Jones, who accomplished things unimaginable for a black woman in the first half of the 20th century. Nadine received the 1997 Prized Pieces Award from the National Black Programming Consortium for Moving with the Dreaming, a look at cross-cultural collaboration through modern dance between African Americans and the Aboriginal and Islander people of Australia. She is developing a more impressionistic visual style in work such as Scribe Video Center’s Youth Project Todo El Mundo Dance, which looks at social dance in the African-American and Latino communities in Philadelphia. Her experimental documentary LoqueeshaAshleyFranklinJoseBrown with poetry by Ursula Rucker debuts on WYBE TV 35 in 2001. A graduate of Franklin and Marshall College (BA Theater Arts) and West Chester University (MS Instructional Media Technology), she received a 1998 Media Arts Fellowship from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and her award-winning videos have aired on public television in Philadelphia, Washington, D.C. and Tucson, Arizona. Nadine is a co-founder of ImageWeavers, a black women’s media arts collective that was based in Philadelphia from 1994-1998. She currently teaches video production at Drexel University. She worked as associate producer on the 35mm feature Black Ninja in January 2001 and plans to work at home and abroad on narrative films and documentaries.