Dale Hudson is Associate Professor of Film and New Media at New York University Abu Dhabi, a digital curator for the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF), and coordinator of the Films from the Gulf at the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) Film Festival.

Patricia R. Zimmermann was the Charles A. Dana Professor of Screen Studies at Ithaca College, director of the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF), co-curator (with Louis Massiah) of We Tell: Fifty Years of Participatory Community Media, and editor-at-large of The Edge.