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We will have the privilege to have a great panel of Professors of Purchase College to introduce and moderate discussions on the films featured in the festival.

Habiba Boumlik: B.A., French as a Foreign Language, University of Besançon, France. M.A., Arabic and Islamic Studies, University of Strasbourg. Ph.D., Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Strasbourg, France. Academic background and teaching experience include French language and francophone cultures.
Research interests encompass francophone literatures, North African immigration to France, Moroccan Judaism, and Berber identity.
Current research examines the role of secular and religious Muslim women within the development of global Islamic fundamentalism.
Published works include : “Rahma and Sou’dia. Fragments of Life.” Mediterraneans, Winter 1999-2000, Paris; “Diverse Manifestations of Individuality. Discourse and Practices,” Paris, 1998; “Religious and Therapeutic Knowledge of Tigurramin Women,” Lettre d’information de l’Afemam # 10, Paris, 1995.
Habiba Boumlik teaches Anthropology and Culture and Society in the West at Purchase College , NY.
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Iris Cahn is Associate Professor of Film at Purchase College (B.F.A., Purchase College; M.A., New York University). Editor of feature films and documentaries; director of short films. Emmy Awards for specials and series. Work has appeared at the Cannes, Berlin, Sundance, New York Lincoln Center, and Robert Flaherty Film Festivals, theatrically, and on network television. Most recently, co-produced and edited the feature documentary, "Dean and Me: Road show of an American Primary" and, "Picasso, Braque and Early Film in Cubism" for Pace Gallery, NYC.

Anne M. Kern is Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies at Purchase College, State University of New York. Dr. Kern also serves as a Board Member of both the Alliance Française of Greenwich and the Focus on French Cinema film festival. She has a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and Film Studies from Yale University, and is also a graduate of the Scholars Program (an intensive program in psychoanalytic theory for non-clinician scholars) at the Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis, New Haven, Connecticut. Dr. Kern has presented and published work on European and American film, surrealism and psychoanalysis; her research interests and teaching experience include silent, Classical Hollywood and European cinema, critical theory, as well as French and Italian literature and theatre.
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Carolina Sanín is an assistant professor of Language and Culture at Purchase College, SUNY. She has taught Spanish literature from the Middle Ages and the Baroque, translation, and Latin American cinema. She received a Ph. D. in Spanish and Portuguese from Yale University. Her novel Todo en Otra Parte was published in 2005. Her short fiction, critical texts and travel-writing have appeared in several anthologies and magazines.
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Ronnie Scharfman is Professor of French and Literature at Purchase College, SUNY. She received her B.A from Bryn Mawr College in 1967, her Licence and Maîtrise-es-Lettres, Mention Très Bien from the Université de Provence in Aix, and her Ph.D. from Yale University in 1979. She is the author of numerous articles on Francophone writers such as Aimé Césaire, Simone Schwarz-Bart, Maryse Condé, Raphaël Confiant, Daniel Maximin, Marie Chauvet, Edmond Jabès, Edmond El Maleh, Abdelwahab Meddeb, Hélène Cixous, Jacques Derrida,Abdelkébir Khatibi, Michel Valensi, Assia Djebar. Her book on Aimé Césaire, Engagement and the Language of the Subject in the Poetry of Aimé Césaire, (Florida, 1987) won a Gilbert Chinard Literary Prize. She co-edited a special edition of Yale French Studies on “Post/Colonial Conditions” with Françoise Lionnet in 1993, and an anthology of French and Francophone women writers, Ecritures de Femmes (Yale, 1996) with Caws, Hirsch and Green. As a Césaire specialist, she has been publishing and lecturing all year since his death, at Yale, Columbia, N.Y.U. and Brown. Universities.
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David Schwartz is Chief Curator at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York City. He currently teaches in the Cinema Studies program at Purchase College, and he is a graduate of the Purchase film program. He lectures and presents films at many venues, including the Tarrytown Music Hall, Irvington Public Library, and the Jacob Burns Film Center. He writes about film frequently for the Journal-News.
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Agustin Zarzosa is assistant professor of Cinema Studies at SUNY Purchase. He received his M.A. in Film Studies at NYU and his Ph.D. in Film and Television at UCLA. His dissertation, titled From Bondage to Melodrama, offers a classification of dramatic films in terms of modality. He has published essays in Interculture, Scope, and Colloquy.
He teaches courses on film theory, international cinema, and film analysis.
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