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About The Hosts

Morton Marcus is an award-winning writer, film historian and film critic. He taught English and film at Cabrillo College for thirty years, and his sixteen-part television history of film, Movie Milestones, has been shown on many cable television stations and for years was the main visual source of film history at the AFTRS, the Australian National Film School. Marcus has been a longtime co-host of the film review television program Cinema Scene which was a regular offering on AT &T Broadband and Comcast networks from 1999-2003, and now continues on the Community Television channel of Santa Cruz County. He also led a film discussion group at Santa Cruz’s Nickelodeon Theater on the first and third Saturday of every month. Marcus was a founder andmember of the steering committee for the Pacific Rim Film Festival. He also curated a number of film series at various museums in California inlcluding the John Steinbeck Center.

Richard Von Busack graduated from the film program at UC Santa Cruz. He has been a film critic and reviewer for Metro Newspapers since 1989. He's written for Metro, the weekly paper of the Silicon Valley, since its first issue in 1985. He's also written for the San Francisco Chronicle, Entertainment Weekly, and the East Bay Express.

His essay "Signifying Monkeys" was just published in The Science Fiction Reader (Limelight Editions). For several years, he's been cohost of the San Francisco Bay area cable TV show Cinema Scene. His Metro Santa Cruz article "The Prince of Plots" won First Place for Arts Reviewing by the Association of Alternative Newspapers.