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The Team
Philip Hallman
Philip Hallman is the University of Michigan Library’s Film Studies Field Librarian. He is also the Curator for the Screen Arts Mavericks & Makers collections, which are part of the University of Michigan Library’s Special Collections Research Center. He oversees the archival materials of noted filmmakers Orson Welles, Robert Altman, John Sayles, Alan Rudolph, Nancy Savoca and Jonathan Demme, as well as noted producer and exhibitor Ira Deutchman. In addition, he is head of the Donald Hall Collection, the department of Film, Television, and Media’s DVD and screenplay collection. Phil teaches various library research classes for the department and works regularly with the programming team of the Cinetopia International Film Festival. Since 2011, he has served as a juror/moderator at Michael Moore’s Traverse City Film Festival.
Vincent Longo
Vincent Longo is a Doctoral Candidate in Film, Television, and Media at the University of Michigan. He received the University’s Outstanding Research Mentor and Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor awards for his work teaching audiovisual essays and archival research to undergraduate students. Vincent’s published and forthcoming work in The Moving Image, Screen, JCMS Teaching Dossier, and several anthologies focuses on multimedia theater, New Hollywood authorship, archival studies, and audiovisual essay pedagogy. His dissertation explores the role live performance in American movie palaces played in shaping celebrity culture, the norms of spectatorship, and film production during the Hollywood studio era.
Justin Schell
Justin Schell is the Director of the University of Michigan Library’s Shapiro Design Lab. He holds a PhD from the University of Minnesota’s Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society program, where he completed a multimodal dissertation on immigrant hip-hop in Minnesota. He was a Council on Library and Information Resources Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Minnesota Libraries, where he founded the Minnesota Hip-Hop Collection, which is part of the Givens Collection at the University of Minnesota Libraries. In addition to his work at the Design Lab, he is a filmmaker, visual artist, and podcast producer.
Michael Lenard
Michael Lenard is a science enthusiast from the Metro Detroit area. Currently a student in the University of Michigan School of Information, he has a bachelor’s in physics from Michigan State and a master’s in physical chemistry from Michigan. He is particularly interested in the interface between libraries and scientific research, and is aiming to work as either a science librarian or data curator after graduation. He hopes for a future where science is more egalitarian and more accessible for all.
