THE MISSION OF THE DETROIT FILM CENTER
IS TO PROVIDE A VITAL CENTER FOR
THE MEDIA ARTS IN SE MICHIGAN.

The DETROIT FILM CENTER (DFC), founded in 1993, has served SE Michigan as this area's only non-profit media arts center. In this time, and mostly through the help and assistance of volunteers, the DFC has provided education and resources to thousands of prospective filmmakers and artists and has enriched the community through ongoing screenings of important works of independent film and video.

This activity is supported by the MICHIGAN COUNCIL FOR ARTS AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS and the NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS.

Staff: Nicole MacDonald, Co-director

Board of Directors: The DFC is guided by its board of directors, volunteers from the filmmaking and arts community who dedicate their time to the advancement of the organization.

Robert Andersen
Robert Andersen is an artist/filmmaker/educator/animator/media consultant and two time Emmy nominee. Robert has worked in both the industry and in education, most recently as general manager of a leading computer graphics and visual effects studio and as chair of the Department of Animation and Digital Media at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit from 2002-2006 where he was a fulltime member of the faculty since 1998. He initiated the digital cinema program at the college in 1999 and was recognized as an Apple Distinguished Educator in 2005. In 1993, he founded the Detroit Film Center, a film and video community resource center, and currently serves as President of this non-profit organization.


Jack Cronin
Jack Cronin teaches film and video at Oakland Community College. He has taught film at various other institutions, including the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Wayne State University and the College for Creative Studies, he is also former Director of the Detroit Film Center from 2004-2006. Jack’s films, which sometimes combine documentary and experimental techniques, have been included in festivals and screening programs in the US, Europe, and South America.


Donald Harrison
Donald Harrison is an independent documentary filmmaker. His latest work is an 11-minute black and white 16mm documentary about Detroit boogie woogie piano legend Bob Seeley (Boogie Woogie Express - 2007). Harrison worked for 4 years at Film Arts Foundation in San Francisco, where he served several roles and led campaigns for community-building, marketing, sponsorship, and membership. Prior to this Harrison held sales and marketing positions for small businesses in the San Francisco Bay Area. His current freelance work includes serving as Ad Sales Manager for Release Print magazine and producing educational/industrial videos for small businesses and nonprofits. Harrison received an Alden B. Dow Creativity Fellowship in the summer of 2006 and received his undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan in 1995.


Bridgett Lomax
Bridgett Lomax is Development Director for Gleaners Community Food Bank of Southeastern Michigan. Prior to joining Gleaners, Bridgett served as Vice President, Arts, Humanities and Culture at the YMCA of Metropolitan Detroit where she managed arts programming at the Boll Family YMCA, which contains the Y's first and only arts center. Lomax has served as program officer for the Community Foundation for Southeastern Michigan, where she was instrumental in the initiative to increase cultural participation in a seven county region. She received her BS from Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA and her MA from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA.