UT FILM INSTITUTE ADVISORY BOARD
*UT Graduates
Elizabeth Avellan, producer (Desperado, Spy Kids, et al.)
Michael Barker*, co-president, Sony Pictures Classics
Bob Berney*, president, NewMarket Films
Louis Black*, editor, The Austin Chronicle, and co-founder, South by Southwest film and music festival
Christopher Blackwell, chairman, Palm Pictures
Rebecca Campbell, executive director, Austin Film Society/Austin Studios
Tom Copeland, director, Texas Film Commission
Jack Crosby*, chairman, the Rust Group
Hector Galan, president, Galan Productions
Jared Hoffman*, agent, Creative Artists
Robert Levi*, cable programming consultant (and former Turner Broadcasting executive vice-president)
Jordan Levin*, president of entertainment, The WB
Richard Linklater, Detour Film Production
Matthew McConaughey*, actor, director, producer and writer
Barbara Morgan, executive director, Austin Film Festival
Thom Mount, president, Mount Film Company
Carolyn Pfeiffer, president and CEO, Burnt Orange Productions
John Pierson, author (Spike Mike Reloaded: A Guided Tour Across a Decade of American Independent Cinema)
Thomas Schlamme*, writer-director-producer, Warner Brothers Studios (West Wing, Sports Night, et al.)
Mike Simpson*, co-head of motion pictures worldwide, William Morris Agency
Evan Smith, editor, Texas Monthly
Judy Trabulsi*, executive vice-president,GSD&M
Jack Valenti, president and CEO, Motion Picture Association of America
Larry Waks, partner, Jackson Walker
Ellen Wartella, executive vice chancellor and provost, the University of California Riverside
Michael Zilkha, principal, Zilhka Renewable Energy
Michael Zinberg*, CEO, American Flyer Films & Television