BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Alexander Payne

Alexander Payne is an Academy Award winning filmmaker and writer. His films include Election (1999), About Schmidt (2002), Sideways (2004), The Descendants (2011), Nebraska (2013) and Downsizing (2017).

Allison Anders

Allison Anders is a world renowned filmmaker whose films include Gas Food Lodging (1992), Mi Vida Loca (1993), Grace of My Heart (1996) and Things Behind the Sun (2001). She has been awarded a MacArthur Genius Grant and a Peabody Award.​

Alek Lev

Alek Lev is a director, writer, producer, editor and podcaster, He wrote, directed, and edited the film WHAT?, a black-and-white silent feature-length comedy with a Deaf cast and Deaf crew. He previously served as the New Media Director for the CBS hit television series, How I Met Your Mother.

Andrew Schwartz

Andrew Schwartz has been an Administrative Judge and attorney for the Equal Opportunity Employment Commission. He is a past President of Hollywood Heritage, and President of Beyond Baroque, the poetry center in Venice, California.

Barbara Zicka Smith

Barbara Zicka Smith co-founded the nonprofit American Cinematheque and served as its Executive Director from 1992 to 2018.  Under her leadership, the Cinematheque came to be regarded as one of the premiere organizations of its kind.

​Cliff Retallick

Cliff Retallick is Retroformat’s Musical Director and a founding board member. He is the resident accompanist for the UCLA Film and Television Archive and many other venues. His live music series, Babylon Cabaret, now enjoys a monthly residency at El CID nightclub. He has arranged and played on tracks for Alice Cooper, Smokey Robinson, Wanda Jackson, Billy Joel, Kiss, Garth Brooks, Dion, and many others.

David Slaughter

David Slaughter is a Digital Imaging Specialist who is also a silent film collector and former manager of Los Angeles’ Silent Movie Theatre. He was a film line-up editor on Technicolor’s recent restoration of Orson Welles’ final film, The Other Side of the Wind.  He is currently responsible for digitizing all the the films in the Retroformat Vault.

Dino Everett ​

Dino Everett is the archivist of the HMH Moving Image Archive at the University of Southern California.  He has published numerous articles on the history of the moving image.

​Iain Kennedy

Iain Kennedy is an Emmy-nominated producer, writer and editor, known for his work on television’s Biography series and documentary films including Citizen Stan (2004) and Shout Gladi Gladi (2015). In 2010, he was the producer, writer and director of Palace of Silents, a definitive history of Hollywood’s fabled Silent Movie Theater.

Kevin Jones

​Kevin Jones is Chair of Graduate Programs at Dodge College of Film at Chapman University. He was formerly a Production Executive at Paramount, Warner Brothers, and Columbia Pictures; and Head of Creative Mentors at the American Film Institute Conservatory.  

Steven K. Hill

Steven K. Hill is the Motion Picture Archivist at the UCLA Film & Television Archive, and co-founder of The Silent Treatment e-digest and screening series in L.A. A co-founder of the internationally celebrated Silent Movie Day, he is a graduate of the UCLA Moving Image Archive Studies (MIAS) MA program, and has previously worked at Sony Pictures and Universal Television.

Thomas Barnes

Thomas Barnes has collected silent movies all his life. While working in the legal industry, he began screening his own film prints at Hollywood’s Egyptian Theatre in 2009, as a volunteer for the nonprofit American Cinematheque. He founded Retroformat Silent Films as a separate nonprofit in 2019. Under his guidance, Retroformat has become one of the leading film repertory organizations in Los Angeles.

---

BOARD OF ADVISORS

Angela Williamson, PhD

​Angela Williamson, PhD is the Emmy-nominated filmmaker of  My Life with Rosie, about her cousin, Rosa Parks. She hosts the weekly talk show Everybody with Angela Williamson on KLCS-PBS, which discusses diversity in education and the arts.

Anthony Slide

Anthony Slide is the author or editor of 200+ books on popular entertainment, former resident historian of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and an archivist of the American Film Institute. He was named “our pre-eminent historian of the silent film” by legendary actor Lillian Gish. 

Carley Hildebrand

Carley Hildebrand is a former Retroformat BOD member and Social Media Director, who has led social media campaigns for Warner Bros. and Lionsgate. She has worked in PR for Jazz at Lincoln Center and Communications for the Directors Guild of America. She has been a script writer for Turner Classic Movies and is writing a bio of Montgomery Clift.

Janet Klein

Janet Klein is an entertainer, band leader and musical archaeologist of rare songs from the 1910s to the 1930s. Janet and her Parlor Boys regularly entertain audiences in Los Angeles. She is also known for her vintage style graphic work in print.

Jeffery Masino

Jeffery Masino is a producer of original content and restored cinema classics through his company, Flicker Alley. He has produced dozens of broadcasts with Turner Entertainment Networks (Turner Classic Movies). His latest work at Digital Bedrock (www.digitalbedrock.com) is focused on digital archives, so that audiences will always have access to cinema classics.

​Karie Lynn Bible

Karie Lynn Bible was a member of our founding BOD. She co-authored Location Filming in Los Angeles (Images of America) with Marc Wanamaker and Hollywood Celebrates the Holidays: 1920 - 1970 with Mary Mallory, and created the weekly online newsletter FilmRadar.com. She is an official tour guide for Hollywood Forever Cemetery and has appeared on Turner Classic Movies, CNN and the History Channel.

Lynda Leibrock

​Lynda Leibrock is an executive professional with over 37 years experience in accounting, operational and financial management of for-profit and non-profit organizations.  She founded her own consulting business in 2010, Cornerstone Business Services, LLC, and is  the author and international instructor of How to Start a Nonprofit curriculum. 

​Margot Gerber

Margot Gerber is President of the Art Deco Society of L.A. She was instrumental in campaigning for historic cultural monument status for the Hollywood Reporter building and many other Los Angeles landmarks. She is a board member of Hollywood Heritage. She works in film marketing and publicity, and spent 28 years working with the non-profit American Cinematheque.

Sean P. Malone

Sean P. Malone is a Director of Photography and a film professor at Vanguard University. His cinematography has won awards at film festivals from Los Angeles to Miami. He co-founded Waterfoot Films, an independent film company, and is directing the upcoming sports documentary, Wild About ‘88.

​Suzanne Lloyd

Suzanne Lloyd is the president of Harold Lloyd Entertainment, which she created in 2001 to license the films of her grandfather, legendary silent film comedian Harold Lloyd.  She is the sole trustee of the Harold Lloyd library.

Tracey Goessel

Tracey Goessel is a physician and an entrepreneur, but her true passion is silent film history. In 2015, she wrote and published The First King of Hollywood, a biography of Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. She founded the nonprofit Film Preservation Society (FPS), which has restored several silent films.  FPS’ current goal is to restore all 460 short films by D.W. Griffith made between 1908 and 1913.