Richard Herskowitz has programmed and directed UVa's annual Virginia Film Festival since June of 1994. He currently teaches an annual course on contemporary independent film in the Drama Department. From 1982–1994, he directed the Cornell Cinema program, one of the country's best-known media art centers, where he programmed nearly 500 films and special programs annually for the nightly exhibition program. He also served as adjunct curator for film and video at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell, where he organized numerous installation shows.

Mark Johnson won the Best Picture Academy Award for Barry Levinson's poignant 1988 drama Rain Man, starring Dustin Hoffman (Best Actor Oscar) and Tom Cruise. One of several films Johnson made with Levinson during a twelve-year span; the movie (winner of four Oscars) also captured a Golden Globe as Best Picture. Johnson most recently produced the highly anticipated The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, a co-production between Walden Media and The Walt Disney Company that opened nationwide in December.

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In 2000, Sisson retired early from the alarm business and became an investor in The Station Agent, which won critical praise, awards at the Sundance Film Festival and enough revenue from theaters and DVD sales to make a profit. Sisson is now a partner in Cavalier Films Inc, based in New York and Charlottesville, which raises money to shoot independent films in Virginia. More at The Washington Post.

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Paul Wagner is an Academy Award-winning independent filmmaker who has produced and directed over thirty films over a thirty-year career. His films express his eclectic interests and filmmaking styles, unified by an interest in the nature of the human condition. He is one of a few filmmakers in the world who move freely between the documentary and narrative film forms.

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