Member |
Additional Information |
| Nelson Page, Chairman |
Chairman of the Fort Lee Film Commission, Mr. Page is a movie theater owner, President of the American Theater Organ Society, and Chairman of the Lake Placid Film Festival. Term expires: 2008. |
Tom Meyers,
Executive Director |
Executive Director of the FLFC, Tom Meyers is a former Fort Lee Councilman, founder of the Fort Lee Film Commission, founder of the Fort Lee Historic Committee, and a member of the Fort Lee Historical Society. |
| Kay Nest |
Vice-Chairwoman of the FLFC, Mrs. Nest is also Chairwoman of the Fort Lee Parking Authority and a member of the Fort Lee Historic Committee and Fort Lee Historical Society. |
| Councilman Armand Pohan |
Borough Council Liaison Armand Pohan has an appreciation for the value of Fort Lee’s film history and its importance to the economic vitality of the Borough. Councilman Pohan has been a successful proponent of film and other cultural programming at the recently completed Fort Lee Community Center. He continues to spearhead an effort on the Council to bring a three-screen theater to Fort Lee to show art films, independent films, and retrospectives. Term expires: 2009 |
Richard Koszarski,
Secretary |
A Rutgers University professor, Mr. Koszarski is a film scholar and author. Among his works is Von: The Life and Films of Erich von Stroheim (Limelight, 2001). In October 2001, Mr. Koszarski represented the Commission at the Pordenone Film Festival in Italy, which screened a number of D.W. Griffith’s films shot in Fort Lee in 1911, including his civil war epic The Battle. Term expires: 2008. |
| Donna Brennan |
Ms. Brennan is also a member of the Fort Lee Historical Society. She is a freelance photographer and her work appears in North Jersey and New York City newspapers. Ms. Brennan has been an FLFC volunteer for two years and in that time has become the official photographer of the Commission. She also collects early silent films shot in Fort Lee, her latest acquisition being The Italian Barber shot in Fort Lee by D.W. Griffith in 1910. Term expires: 2006. |
| Marc Perez |
Mr. Perez’s company, Inside Reel Productions, L.L.C., operates a web site on digital filmmaking, The Inside Reel, and is currently producing a series of PBS documentaries on digital filmmaking and the history of film. Inside Reel’s office is located in the Coytesville section of Fort Lee–just around the block from the old Champion/IMP/Universal Studio building, and across the street from where D.W. Griffith shot The New York Hat starring Mary Pickford, Lionel Barrymore, and Lillian Gish. Term expires: 2006. |
| Associate Members |
Additional Information |
| Eric Nelsen |
Palisades Interstate Park curator, Mr. Nelsen is the PIP’s liaison to the FLFC. Representing the PIP as co-sponsor of the Cliffhanger Film Festivals, he assists the Commission in its program development and film subject selection. In 2001, Mr. Nelsen produced a documentary entitled New Deal for the Palisades, which includes archival footage showing the birth, construction, and growth of the PIP from 1900 through World War II. |
| Joe Franklin |
An associate member of the FLFC, Mr. Franklin is a film historian and New York area television and radio personality. |
| Christina Kotlar |
Christina Kotlar is the Jersey Filmmakers of Tomorrow Festival Director. She is an independent writer / director / producer in the New York / Washington DC area. With a background in photography and art direction, she began writing and producing projects for local cable TV, nonprofit organizations and corporate communications. Currently, she founded and produces weekly podcasts "Film Festival Reviews", looking at film festivals and the independent film industry worldwide. Christina is also representing the Fort Lee Film Commission with New York Women in Film and TV in our effort to gain entry into the Director's Guild of America for the first woman film director and studio owner, Alice Guy Blache. Alice Guy Blache owned and operated Solax Studio in Fort Lee from 1912 through World War I. |
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