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Vee Bravo / Education Programs Director
Vee Bravo is a New York-bred filmmaker and activist who has documented youth culture and politics over the past thirteen years. Most recently he completed his first feature length documentary, Estilo Hip Hop, for PBS. Bravo is also responsible for creating the Cell Block Project, a community media initiative that produced live hip hop events and film screenings at the Rikers Island Correctional Facility. Bravo's media and activist work has been recognized and supported by the Ford Foundation, the Open Society Institute, and the Union Square Awards.
veebravo@mayslesinstitute.org
212-582-6050, ext 208
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Jessica Ann Peavy / Educator - Summer 2010
Jessica Ann Peavy was born in Columbus, Ohio and now currently lives and works in New York City. She received her BFA from Tisch School of the Arts at New York University and completed a MFA in Photography, Video, and Related Media at the School of Visual Arts. Peavy has exhibited in galleries, museums, and festivals across the country including Rush Arts Gallery, Brooklyn Arts Council, The Contemporary Art Museum Houston, as well as the International Black Media Festival in London. Peavy has spoken at the CUNY Graduate Center and Cinewomen NY on women and the moving image and Columbia University’s Conversations Across Cultures public art Conference. Peavy was recently granted Residencies at Smack Mellon and Harvestworks and has received grants from the Jerome Foundation and the New York State Council of the Arts.
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Delmira Valladares / Educator - Summer 2010
Delmira Valladares is an artist and videomaker. Her work, which includes documentary, experimental video, multi-channel narrative, and performance, has included screenings and solo shows at the Center for Book Arts, Jersey City Museum, Vertexlist, Black Maria Film Festival, and Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation. She worked as assistant editor on 8 BIT: A Documentary about Art and Videogames and the award-winning War Against the Weak. She is currently editing a film about her parent's bodega, and a portrait of a Buddhist temple in Arunachal Pradesh, India. Delmira has a BA from NJCU and an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania.
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Jessica Green / Cinema Co-Director
Jessica Green is currently associate producing an adaptation of Henry James' The Beast In the Jungle and producing a documentary on Graffiti titled Anything You Can Get Away With. Green also serves as a consultant on various media and Internet projects, including a television pilot. She got her new media sea legs as the executive editor of BET.com from 2000-2006. She is also a former founder, owner and editor-In-chief of the New York based, independent Hip-Hop magazine Stress (1994-2001). Green has an undergraduate degree from Lang College at the New School for Social Research and was born and raised in New York City.
jessica@mayslesinstitute.org
212-582-6050, ext 221
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Philip Maysles / Cinema Co-Director
Philip Maysles earned his MFA in Art from the California Institute of Art (CalArts) in 2005 and his BA with honors from Brown University in 2002. He has taught documentary film and graffiti arts to youth and was an adjunct lecturer in Art at Rice University and the University of Houston (2005-2007). His work in painting and drawing has been exhibited at PS1 (NY), Artist Space (NY) and Monte Vista Projects (Los Angeles). Philip is a recipient of an Inner City Arts Council Purchase Prize, (Milwaukee, WI) and the Marie Helen Hicks Prize from Bell Gallery, Brown University (Providence, RI). He has contributed essays to Small Axe: A Journal of Caribbean Thought, Indiana University Press and the CORE Journal, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Press.
philip@mayslesinstitute.org
212-582-6050, ext 221
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Jason Fox / Operations Director
Jason is currently a graduate student at NYU, writing about the experimental and the ethnographic film traditions. Before attending NYU, Jason worked for an HIV/AIDS non-profit in Austin, Texas, as the Director of Media and Development. He has also worked as a video editor and camera-person on a wide array of projects, and has taught hands on filmmaking techniques such as hand-processing to middle-school and high-school age students. He is motivated and inspired by the communities that form around the use of film as a tool of unique personal and community expression.
jason@mayslesinstitute.org
212-582-6050, ext 231
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Sara Maysles / New Media Director
Sara Maysles established the Maysles Films, Inc. photo and paper archives in 2004. Collaborating with Steidl Press in Germany and the Steven Kasher Gallery in NYC in 2008, she co-edited A Maysles Scrapbook: Photographs / Cinemagraphs / Documents, a visual history of Maysles Films and the photographic and cinematographic work of Albert Maysles. In 2009, she co-edited and co-designed Grey Gardens with her sister Rebekah - a book of edited conversations and stories culled from approximately 140 hours of audio outtakes of the groundbreaking Maysles Brother's documentary film as well as a variety of other materials from the paper archives. Sara has worked in Nepal's Tibetan community and studied Modern Tibetan language and culture at Tibet University in Lhasa, PRC. She is currently finishing her BA in Tibetan and Cinema studies at NYU's Gallatin School of Individualized Studies. sara@mayslesinstitute.org
212-582-6050, ext 218
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Rebekah Maysles /Facilities Director
Rebekah Maysles was born in New York City and moved to Philadelphia to study painting and art history at The Tyler School of Art. She is a painter and photographer and now lives full time in New York. She has been working with Maysles Films for the past five years on archive preservation and redevelopment. In addition she has worked on a variety of print media projects including the Sourcebook of American Chatter and Megawords Magazine. Rebekah co-edited and co-designed Grey Gardens and created the multitude of silkscreened, watercolored, and hand-drawn images woven through the book.
rebekah@mayslesinstitute.org
212-582-6050, ext 207
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