Robin Hirsch: is a former Oxford, Fulbright, and English Speaking Union Scholar, who has acted, directed, taught, published, and produced on both sides of the Atlantic. But the titles of which he is proudest were self-bestowed: Minister of Culture, Wine Czar, and Dean of Faculty at the Cornelia Street Café in Greenwich Village, which he opened in 1977 with two other artists, Irish-American actor Charles McKenna and Argentinean-Italian-Canadian painter and sculptor, Raphael Pivetta. Under his various titles, he produced some 700 events a year in every conceivable genre and quite a few inconceivable ones.
Michael Jacobsohn: I began making award-winning movies as a teenager at the Henry Street Settlement's Movie Club, a film workshop in the Lower Eastside of New York. My 16mm films have been shown nationally and internationally and are in the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts permanent collection. I was a staff editor at ABC News and Sports, for 28 years, where I was awarded a duPont-Columbia award and a George Polk award. For sports, I received an Emmy. Since retiring from ABC, I have made several full length and short documentaries. In addition, I curate bimonthly screenings of short films, by New York filmmakers, at New Plaza Cinema, and I write a monthly film column for The Village View.
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