Aaron Aradillas
Aaron Aradillas is the Home Entertainment Editor and segment producer for Movie Geeks United, a Top 30 online talk show. Guests on the show have included directors John Badham, Brian de Palma and actor Jeff Goldblum. Before he graduated from the University of Texas at San Antonio in 2007 with a double major in English and Linguistics, he had already completed a series of in-depth interviews with renowned film critics, such as Owen Gleiberman and Janet Maslin among others. They can be found online at Rock Critics. He is also a contributing writer for Matt Zoller Seitz’ website The House Next Door. He currently lives in San Antonio.

Stephen Becker
Stephen Becker is the Movies Editor at The Dallas Morning News, a position he has held since 2004. After graduating from The University of Texas in Austin, he began work in the sports department at the Arlington Morning News. He was then hired to work on the business copy desk at The Dallas Morning News and later moved to the Lifestyles copy desk, followed by a stint as Assistant Fashion Editor. He also currently serves as The News’ Television Editor. In addition to his work at The News, he was a founding staff member of Quick, a Dallas Morning News publication geared toward readers on the go. He lives in Dallas with his wife, Jennifer.

Doug Cummings
Doug Cummings is co-founder of Masters of Cinema, an internationally acclaimed resource for news and information on world cinema, as well as MoC’s Robert Bresson section. He holds a film degree from the University of Arizona, and blogs and publishes reviews of his current viewing at Film Journey. He has written a number of DVD liner notes (including Tartan’s Ozu box sets and MoC’s Onibaba, Kuroneko, and Silence), an introduction to the ambient sound CD Yasujiro Ozu: Hitokomakura, and published articles in Senses of Cinema, MovieMail, and various magazines. Most recently, he has written a study of the Dardenne brothers in the context of Emmanuel Levinas’ “face to face” philosophy. An avid festivalgoer (he’s part of the writing staff of the Palm Springs International Film Festival) and annual Toronto attendee, he can often be found at cinephile events in Los Angeles.

Cynthia Fuchs
Cynthia Fuchs is director of Film & Media Studies, as well as Associate Professor of English, African American Studies, and Film & Video Studies (a documentary-making major) at George Mason University. She is Film-TV editor for PopMatters, film reviewer for Common Sense Media and Philadelphia Citypaper, and contributes occasionally to Morphizm.com, Screenit.com, and Flowtv.org. She has published articles on Buffy and Dark Angel; Shakira; Jay-Z; Brad Pitt in Thelma and Louise; Taxi Driver; Michael Jackson, Prince, Juvenile, the Spice Girls, queer punks, Bully and George Washington, the war in Iraq, and Vietnam war movies. She edited Spike Lee: Interviews (University of Mississippi Press 2002), and co-edited Between the Sheets, In the Streets: Queer, Lesbian, and Gay Documentary (University of Minnesota 1997). She is currently co-editing Iraq War Cultures and writing a book on Iraq war documentaries.

Jette Kernion
Jette Kernion is a film critic and feature writer in Austin, Texas. She’s currently a contributing editor at Cinematical, and runs a website about the Austin film scene, Slackerwood. In addition, she’s contributed to Variety’s film-festival blog, The Circuit, and writes restaurant reviews for the Austin edition of The Onion. Jette grew up in the New Orleans area and received a B.A. in journalism from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. She earned an M.A. in radio-television-film from The University of Texas, where she was also a post-graduate James A. Michener Fellow. An essay she wrote in 2005 about New Orleans movie theater history appeared in the anthology Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans? published by Chin Music Press.

David Kipen
David Kipen reviews movies, DVDs, TV and HBO for The Bob Edwards Show on XM Satellite Radio. From 1998-2005, he was book editor/critic for the San Francisco Chronicle. He also broadcast book reviews/essays for NPR’s Day to Day, and presented KCRW-FM’s weekly commentary/podcast Overbooked. He received his B.A. in literature from Yale in 1985, then came home to manage the Nuart Theater in Los Angeles and write about books and movies for The L.A. Times, Atlantic Monthly, Variety, Salon, Buzz, and World Policy Journal. Currently, he serves as the NEA’s Director of Literature, leading The Big Read, a nationwide initiative to restore reading to the heart of American life by helping cities and towns create sustainable one-city-one-book programs. He is the author of The Schreiber Theory: A Radical Rewrite of American Film History (Melville House, 2006), a valiant stab at a screenwriter-centric cosmology of the movies, and his translation of Cervantes’ novella The Dialogue of the Dogs is out this month (Melville House, 2008). He blogs at The Big Read.

Eric Kohn
Eric Kohn graduated from New York University with a bachelor’s degree in journalism and cinema studies from the Tisch School of the Arts. Since then, he has written extensively about film for numerous outlets and traveled to festivals all over the world. As a critic, his writing appears in New York Press. He is also a regular contributor to indieWIRE, The Hollywood Reporter, and Stream Magazine, a new site that focuses on technological developments in the film community. He was born in Houston, raised in Seattle and currently resides in Brooklyn. His professional interests include independent animation, Jewish film, and classic horror. He’s also an amateur cartoonist and a contributor to the upcoming Little Black Book of History, which will be published by Cassell Illustrated.

Dan Kois
Dan Kois edits Vulture, New York magazine’s arts and culture blog. Previous to his journalism career, he worked as a bookseller, a literary agent, and a development executive at Scott Rudin Productions. He’s currently writing a book for Continuum’s 33 1/3 series. A graduate of the University of North Carolina and recipient of an MFA from George Mason, he lives in New York with his wife and daughters.

Kevin Lee
Kevin Lee is a filmmaker and multimedia producer based in New York City. He has produced three short films that have been broadcast on PBS’ Reel New York series and has screened his work at several festivals. His most recent documentary short, Dastaar: Defending Sikh Identity is used around the world as an educational tool on Sikhism. Kevin also writes prolifically on film and has been published in Cinema Scope, Cineaste, Slant Magazine, Senses of Cinema and the Chicago Reader. He’s working through a personal project to watch the 1000 Greatest Films of All Time on his blog, Shooting Down Pictures, which features innovative video essays on each entry.

Karina Longworth
Karina Longworth is a film and new media critic and blogger based in Brooklyn. She currently writes and edits SpoutBlog, a daily film culture blog dedicated to promoting the under-the-radar and deflating the overexposed. She also contributes a weekly segment to Spout’s Webby-nominated FilmCouch podcast, and writes a weekly column on online video for NewTeeVee.com. Her writing has appeared in Filmmaker Magazine, The Huffington Post, Netscape, The Raw Story and TV Squad. She is a frequent conference panelist and pop culture commentator, and has appeared on G4’s Attack of the Show!, AMC and NPR. Karina co-founded Cinematical.com, and served as the site’s editor for its first year. After launching in early 2005, Cinematical quickly became one of the most well-read film blogs on the web, with famous fans including Roger Ebert and Kevin Smith. Karina contributed regularly to Cinematical through the spring of 2007. The site was purchased by AOL in late 2005 and is now operated as a subsidiary of Moviefone. Karina grew up in Los Angeles. She has a BFA in Film from the San Francisco Art Institute and a Masters degree in Cinema Studies from New York University.

Artemisia Ng
Artemisia Ng is an award-winning, bilingual Chinese-English journalist and translator. Formerly a staff reporter of Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post, Ng currently covers Sino-U.S. relations, health care, arts, business, New York City and United Nations news for various media outlets in Asia and the United States. Her news reports have appeared in The Christian Science Monitor, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Providence Journal, The Ledger, UCLA Asia Institute’s AsiaMedia and Asia Pacific Arts, City Limits, the Hong Kong editions of CosmoGIRL! and Cosmopolitan, and Asia Times. Ng won four Ippies awards from the Independent Press Association-New York in 2005 and 2006. Ng was a researcher and translator for The China AIDS Media Project, which produced the 2007 Oscar-winning short documentary The Blood of Yingzhou District. She was also the interviewer and researcher of the multimedia oral history project Ground One: Chinatown after 9/11. She’s a 2007 summer fellow at the Poynter Institute and currently pursuing her masters degree at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She is also researching a book on a forgotten maestro of Shanghai film music in 1930s and 1940s.

Peter Noble-Kuchera
Peter Noble-Kuchera studied Film Studies at the University of Minnesota and Film Production at Film in the Cities in St. Paul. During this time, he made many short subjects in video, 16mm, and 35mm. Over five years in Los Angeles, he worked a variety of low-end jobs in the film industry: on commercials, music videos, foreign and independent films, and in post-production on several blockbusters. He sold a science fiction script about the end of the world (no imagination required while living in L.A.), and wrote a weekly essay on current film for the sadly-short-lived Abound online. Peter now resides in Bloomington, Indiana, with his wife and two small boyswhere he is a producer for WTIU Public Television. For the last three years, he has been the film critic for WFIU Public Radio (archived online). He writes a weekly film column for Bloomington’s Herald-Times newspaper, regular essays on film for Bloomington’s The Ryder magazine, and produces a video podcast/television segment on the movies called See It or Skip It (free through iTunes).

Karen vanMeenen
Karen vanMeenen is the Editor of Afterimage, the Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism published by Visual Studies Workshop. She has published arts criticism and arts journalism in numerous venues including Art New England and Source. She teaches courses in Writing, Literature, Cultural Studies and Contemporary Media at Rochester Institute of Technology and State University of New York at Brockport. She edited Giving Sorrow Words: Poems of Strength and Solace and an anthology of poems by Lyn Lifshin scheduled to be published in 2008.