Jason Silverman Cinematheque Director, Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe Jason has served as Cinematheque Director since 2004. In 2014, Jason was recognized with the Mayor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts. He has produced programs that have drawn more than 420,000 in attendance at institutions including the Smithsonian (with whom he founded and co-directed for 10 years The Native Cinema Showcase), The Lensic and SITE Santa Fe. Jason has curated programs for the Bioneers Conference, El Museo del Barrio, Museum of Fine Arts/Museum of New Mexico, the Santa Fe Opera and the True/False Film Festival. Silverman is, with Samba Gadjigo, the writer, director and producer of the feature film SEMBENE! which premiered in competition at the 2015 Sundance Film and the Cannes Festival du Film, where it was one of the top eight finalists for the Camera d’Or. It is distributed by Kino Lorber, which is releasing it in 30+ cities in the U.S. SEMBENE! was included on best-of-2015 lists by New York Magazine, RogerEbert.com, Movie City News and Christian Science Monitor. He is producer of Olympia (opening night film, SXSW; closing night film, Slamdance) and Shameless. His projects have received support from the Ford Foundation, the Sundance Institute, Cinereach, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Tribeca Film Institute. Jason is a three-time Sundance Documentary Fellow and a 2010 New Visions Award winner. He has served as a staff member at the Telluride Film Festival for 25 years and is former artistic director of Taos Talking Pictures (named one of the world's top ten film festivals). Silverman has served as a panelist, juror and nominator for the SXSW and Sundance Film Festivals, the Rockefeller Media Arts Fellowships and Creative Capital. He has written more than 400 articles for Wired, been a contributor to the Santa Fean, Austin Chronicle, Time Out New York, Psychology Today and UTNE Reader, and his collection of essays Untold New Mexico was used as a textbook at the University of New Mexico. His essays on film and culture have been published in eight other collections and translated into more than a dozen languages. Jason is also a former adjunct professor at the Institute of American Indian Arts. Jason holds a BA in English from the University of Michigan and a MA in English from Middlebury College.

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Page 1: 2017 Final CCA Silverman Bio€¦ · SEMBENE! which premiered in competition at the 2015 Sundance Film and the Cannes Festival du Film, where it was one of the top eight finalists

Jason Silverman Cinematheque Director, Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe

Jason has served as Cinematheque Director since 2004. In 2014, Jason was recognized with the Mayor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts. He has produced programs that have drawn more than 420,000 in attendance at institutions including the Smithsonian (with whom he founded and co-directed for 10 years The Native Cinema Showcase), The Lensic and SITE Santa Fe. Jason has curated programs for the Bioneers Conference, El Museo del Barrio, Museum of Fine Arts/Museum of New Mexico, the Santa Fe Opera and the True/False Film Festival. Silverman is, with Samba Gadjigo, the writer, director and producer of the feature film SEMBENE! which premiered in competition at the 2015 Sundance Film and the Cannes Festival du Film, where it was one of the top eight finalists for the Camera d’Or. It is

distributed by Kino Lorber, which is releasing it in 30+ cities in the U.S. SEMBENE! was included on best-of-2015 lists by New York Magazine, RogerEbert.com, Movie City News and Christian Science Monitor. He is producer of Olympia (opening night film, SXSW; closing night film, Slamdance) and Shameless. His projects have received support from the Ford Foundation, the Sundance Institute, Cinereach, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Tribeca Film Institute. Jason is a three-time Sundance Documentary Fellow and a 2010 New Visions Award winner. He has served as a staff member at the Telluride Film Festival for 25 years and is former artistic director of Taos Talking Pictures (named one of the world's top ten film festivals). Silverman has served as a panelist, juror and nominator for the SXSW and Sundance Film Festivals, the Rockefeller Media Arts Fellowships and Creative Capital. He has written more than 400 articles for Wired, been a contributor to the Santa Fean, Austin Chronicle, Time Out New York, Psychology Today and UTNE Reader, and his collection of essays Untold New Mexico was used as a textbook at the University of New Mexico. His essays on film and culture have been published in eight other collections and translated into more than a dozen languages. Jason is also a former adjunct professor at the Institute of American Indian Arts. Jason holds a BA in English from the University of Michigan and a MA in English from Middlebury College.