Videoart.net Festival Team Director of Videoart.net  Dan Fine is an artist and the founder of Videoart.net, the leading international network for video art and experimental film.  Dan lives and works in New York City, where he focuses on his passion for art.  He received an MFA degree at the School of Visual Arts New York in 1997.  He has also received the Foundation for the Advancement of Interdisciplinary Art in Israel Award, in 1997.  His work has been shown in galleries, museums and festivals in Berlin, Hamburg, New York and Israel.  Curator, Festival Coordinator Danielle Pattavina lives and works in Brooklyn, recording video and sound.  She is currently self-producing a documentary with her father about his over-the-road trucking job. Videoart.net's Video Art & Experimental Film Festival 2010 marks her debut as a festival curator.  dpattavina@gmail.com Curator JJ Hurvich, a native of New York City, is a curator, filmmaker writer and musician currently based in Berlin and Brooklyn. She is co-director of VIDEOKILLS – an international video art collective and platform for video art, sound, multimedia and performance artists. She is also co-founder and editor of ThePostRaum, a DIY online magazine for literature, photography and cultural exploration written and designed by its contributors. She is very excited to be collaborating with Dan and VIDEOART.net on this landmark event. Consulting Producer Barbara Ghammashi is a producer developing narrative and documentary films.  Her latest film, "Hot Flash," was acquired by Shorts International and Barbara is currently in post-production on the feature-length documentaries "Sing" and "Get Real! Wise Women Speak."  Other recent credits include the documentaries "Home Front" (Consulting Producer) and "Beslan: Three Days In September" (Coordinating Producer).  Projects in production include the short documentary "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend," a portrait of Major League Baseball's only two female head groundskeepers, and projects in development include the script "Everything's Going to Be Alright" with DGA Award-winner Tasha Oldham attached to direct.  Barbara was a second-round finalist for the Sundance Creative Producing Initiative with the feature "Shady Creek."  Prior to forming Roadside Pictures, Barbara spent 5 years at Showtime Networks Inc. as a Director of Original Programming.  Responsible for development/production on various movies and documentaries for the network, she worked on such projects as "Speak,"  that premiered at Sundance in 2004 and was the highest rated film on Showtime in 2005; "Bereft," that premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and the documentary "After Innocence," which was awarded a Special Jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival and was short-listed for an Academy Award in 2005.