Contact
Rural Route
Rural Route Film
Festival
P.O. Box 3900
Grand Central Station
New York, NY 10163
filmfest@ruralroutefilms.com
Alan
Webber
was born and raised in Elkader, Iowa, 20 mi. west of the Mississippi
River and the historic Wisconsin pioneer village of Prarie du
Chien. He has been making films and videos since age 16, and
obtained his M.A. in Media Studies from the New School for Social
Research
while apprenticing under director Hal Hartley. Alan's writer/director/editor
credits include: Adventures of the Brooklyn Hipster Superhero,
Day is Done, and Hawkeye Fever. He has recently
shot music videos for rock bands Japanther, Federation-X,
and The Silver Jews
(click here to view), and has completed a feature-length
script about teenage angst in rural Iowa. His latest short
film, Dear, Deer features Akron/Family's
"Don't Be Afraid, You're Already Dead" and can be seen here.
Terra
Weikel (Outreach Coordinator)
grew up in a small town in central Pennsylvania. After
attending college in Washington, DC, she spent a year at a remote mission
school in South Africa, six months in the Midwest, ten years in San
Francisco, and now has returned to the East Coast to take up residence in
New York City. She recently completed a nationwide outreach campaign with
the documentary Lost Boys of Sudan, and has worked for Link TV as a producer
and editor for many years.
Don
Goodes is RRFF's Canadian Correspondent. From 1984-1995
Goodes was a visual art critic. He has a long list of publishing
and lecture credits. With the birth
of his first kid, he consciously stepped back from the art
world and quit theoretical writing. He began working as a
Web developer and as an artist. His mock television series
Each & Every One of You, produced at the Banff Centre, has
developed a cult following and has been screened across Canada
as well as in the US and Europe (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHlrE1saOMc).
He is presently working
on a trilogy of video works on post-peasant identity.
Chad
Hunter originally hails from Haslett, Michigan, and is a
media archivist with WITNESS in Brooklyn and the Appalshop
Archive in Whitesburg, Kentucky. He was previously Preservation
Officer in the Motion Picture Dept. at George Eastman House,
where he served as an instructor at the L. Jeffrey Selznick
School of Film Preservation. He is a co-founder of Home Movie
Day and a founding Board Member of the Center for Home Movies.
Chad serves as co-chair of the Association of Moving Image
Archivist's Small Gauge and Amateur Film Interest Group.
Rural
Route is happy to welcome Véronique Perret, who will be
managing
special event planning and public relations in the upcoming year.
Véronique has worked with Cannes and Studio Canal in France,
and the
Tribeca Film Festival and Rendezvous with French Cinema in NYC.
Check out
her own website http://eventpremiere.com for info. on planning
your own
special events!
David
Fishel was born and raised
in Rochester, MN. Graduating from the University of Iowa
in 2003, Fishel promptly
moved to Brooklyn. There, he completed his thesis
feature, Exquisite Corpse. Fishel has since, worked
as a freelance editor while still persuing his own short works.
Fishel
is exceptionally proud of his Technical Coordinator status with
the Rural Route Film Festival. Fishel now lives in France
were he is persuing the global rural experience. While meandering
throughout Europe, he began this silly project: www.daveydanceblog.com You
can see more from him at www.nocinfishel.com
Estee
Pierce is a native New Yorker urbanite,
born in the Bronx, raised in Midtown Manhattan. She currently
lives in North Brooklyn, where she serves as a core member of
Williamsburg Community Supported Agriculture. In addition to helping
out the great people at the Rural Route Film Festival, she is
a writer and researcher.
Dominic Bisignano is a an animator
in California. He plays music and made this website.
