We are pleased to announce the involvement of two iconic New York City filmmakers to our Board of Directors; Morgan Spurlock and Mary Harron. Their participation in this year's festival has helped us move the Evil City closer to our goal of bringing filmmakers together and strengthening the downtown independent film community.

MORGAN SPURLOCK
Academy Award® nominated director Morgan Spurlock is the creator and producer of FX's critically acclaimed and award winning series, 30 DAYS. Spurlock has an amazing career spanning film, non-fiction literature, television and theatre. His first feature film, SUPER SIZE ME, was released in 2004 and went on to become the sixth highest grossing box office documentary of all time. This comedic and telling documentary centering on Spurlock's experiment to eat only fast food for a month was named to more than 35 Top Ten lists in 2004 and received an Oscar nomination, the Writers Guild of America Best Documentary Screenplay Award and Best Director prizes at the Sundance Film Festival and the Edinburgh Film Festival

MARY HARRON
Writer and director Mary Harron first made an impact on the world of American independent cinema with her 1996 feature directorial debut I Shot Andy Warhol.

Harron moved to England when she was thirteen and went to school at Oxford and later moved to New York and was part of its 1970's punk scene. She helped start and write for Punk magazine as a music journalist and was the first journalist to interview the Sex Pistols for an American publication

Harron began her film career as the director of a number of documentaries for BBC TV and Channel Four. Following I Shot Andy Warhol, her acclaimed feature directorial debut, Harron began adapting Brett Easton Ellis' controversial novel American Psycho for the screen. Most recently, Harron directed The Notorious Bettie Page, released in 2005. about the 1950s pinup model who became a cult icon of sexuality.

She is currently developing a film based on the book "Please Kill Me" which details the 1970's New York punk scene which she was so much a part of.