Missing Movies Panel

Charles Burnett is an acclaimed film director, producer, and writer. His films include Killer of Sheep (1978), My Brother’s Wedding (1983), To Sleep with Anger (1990), and The Glass Shield (1994). He was a key figure in the LA Rebellion film movement during the late 1960s to the late 1980s, and in 2017 he received an Honorary Academy Award for lifetime achievement. 

Dennis Doros and Amy Heller are cofounders of the film distribution label Milestone Films. They have stewarded the restorations of films including The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926), Portrait of Jason (1967), Killer of Sheep (1978), Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt (1989), and many more. They are copresidents of Missing Movies, a nonprofit dedicated to making inaccessible films available for legal public viewing.

Richard Guay is the producer of such films as True Love (1989), Dogfight (1991), Household Saints (1993), and Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999). True Love received the Grand Jury Prize at the 1989 Sundance Film Festival. He is on the board of directors of Missing Movies, a nonprofit dedicated to making inaccessible films available for legal public viewing.

David Stenn’s writing/producing credits for television include Hill Street Blues, Boardwalk Empire, 21 Jump Street, Beverly Hills, 90210, and The L Word. He is the author of biographies Clara Bow: Runnin’ Wild and Bombshell: The Life and Death of Jean Harlow. Stenn’s Vanity Fair article “It Happened One Night…at M-G-M,” shed light on Hollywood’s best-suppressed scandal and brought vindication to rape survivor Patricia Douglas after 66 years in hiding. He adapted this story into the documentary film Girl 27. Stenn serves on the Film Committee of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and board of directors at the UCLA Film & Television Archive in Los Angeles.