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Jason B. Kohl is an Austrian/American filmmaker, author and teacher from Michigan. His short films have played SXSW, Los Angeles, Locarno, BFI London and been finalists for the Student Academy Awards. Jason is currently financing his first feature film, with production planned for 2016. He’s a former Fulbright and DAAD Artist Scholar with an MFA in Directing from UCLA Film School. This book is a resource he wished he had in applying to film schools and beginning a career as a young filmmaker. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

Jason B. Kohl is an Austrian/American filmmaker, author and teacher from Michigan. His short films have played SXSW, Los Angeles, Locarno, BFI London and been finalists for the Student Academy Awards. Jason is currently financing his first feature film, with production planned for 2016. He’s a former Fulbright and DAAD Artist Scholar with an MFA in Directing from UCLA Film School. This book is a resource he wished he had in applying to film schools and beginning a career as a young filmmaker. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

Jane Barnwell is Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Media Practice at University of Westminster, UK - where she teaches practice and theory. Graduating from Leeds University and the Northern School of Film & Television she began her career at the BBC, before working as a freelance production designer. Recent production design projects include the British feature Axed (2012, R Driscoll, Lionsgate). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

Will Kitchen is completing his PhD at the University of Southampton, UK. He sits on the editorial board of the journal Romance, Revolution and Reform and has been published in the journal Emergence. In 2015 he was awarded the University of Southampton Vice-Chancellors Award for Film Studies. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Maxine Trump got her start in radio and television, working for seven years in development and commissioning for BBC Comedy in the UK. She emigrated to the US in 2003 to become a director of television commercials and has received both Gold and Silver BDA awards for her work. She went on to direct short documentaries and TV shows for various networks including TNT, the Sundance Channel and Discovery. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

Daniela Treveri Gennari is Reader in Film Studies at Oxford Brookes University, UK, with a research interest in audiences, popular cinema, film exhibition and programming. Amongst her recent publications: the edited volume Rural Cinema Exhibition and Audiences in a Global Context (2018, with Catherine O’Rawe and Danielle Hipkins). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

Catherine O’Rawe is Reader in Modern Italian Culture at the University of Bristol, UK. She is the author of Stars and Masculinities in Contemporary Italian Cinema (2014), co-author (with Jacqueline Reich) of Divi: la mascolinità nel cinema italiano (2015), and has published widely on gender and stardom in Italian post-war and contemporary cinema. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

Danielle Hipkins is Associate Professor of Italian Studies and Film at the University of Exeter, UK. She has published widely on gender representation in postwar Italian cinema, and has recently written Italy’s Other Women: Gender and prostitution in postwar Italian cinema, 1940-1965 (2016) and co-edited Prostitution and Sex Work in Global Cinema: New takes on fallen women (2017). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

Silvia Dibeltulo is Senior Lecturer in Communication, Media and Culture at Oxford Brookes University, UK, where she previously worked on the AHRC-funded Italian Cinema Audiences project and the BA/Leverhulme-funded European Cinema Audiences project. Her publications the edited volume Rethinking Genre in Contemporary Global Cinema (2018, with Ciara Barrett). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

Sarah Culhane is currently a Research Fellow at Oxford Brookes University, UK, working on the Italian Cinema Audiences follow on project, ICAMAP (2017-2018). ICAMAP is an online archive that allows users to explore the history of cinema-going in 1950s Italy. Her publications include ‘Street Cries and Street Fights: Anna Magnani, Sophia Loren and the popolana’ (The Italianist, 2017). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

Dr Andrew McWhirter is a lecturer in Media Studies and Programme Leader of the BA/Hons Media and Communications degree in the department of Social Sciences, Media and Journalism at the University of Glasgow. Previously McWhirter worked in advertising as a copyrighter and as a freelance journalist covering international film festivals and writing articles for Glasgow-based DC Publishing, The Glasgow Film Theatre and London-based Tribune Magazine. He completed his PhD exploring contemporary film criticism and the digital media landscape at the University of Glasgow where he also achieved his MLitt in Film Journalism. He is currently working on pre-production plans for a documentary film project about media representations of forensic science. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

Heather Hale is a film and TV director, producer and screenwriter of original programming, including the indie comedy Rolling Romance (2018), the thriller Absolute Killers (2011), the Lifetime Original Movie The Courage to Love (2000), as well as several award-winning syndicated series and two Emmy-winning PBS series. She was the Independent Film and Television Alliance’s Industry Liaison for the 2013 American Film Market as well as the Vice President of Event Programming for the National Association of Television Program Executives, where she helped design and launch the TV Producers’ Boot Camp. She often serves as NATPE’s official pitch prep consultant, preparing producers to pitch to financiers and distribution executives. Heather speaks and consults around the world, customizing retreats and workshops and is always writing, producing, directing and raising funds for film and television projects. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.