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Robert Rosen
Educator, critic, preservationist and former Dean of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, Robert Rosen has spoken at scholarly, public, and professional meetings in more than twenty nations on subjects related to film criticism, media history, narrative and curatorship. He has published widely in the field of media preservation and has guided the growth of the UCLA Film & Television Archive from a small study collection to the world’s largest university-based holding of original film and television materials.
He has occupied many positions of leadership in the field. These include: Founding Director of the National Center for Film and Video Preservation at the American Film Institute, the Executive Committee of the International Federation of Film Archives, member of the National Film Preservation Board of the Library of Congress, and Board Member of the Stanford Theater Foundation and the Geffen Playhouse. With Martin Scorsese he was the organizer of the Film foundation on which he currently serves as the founding Chair of the Archivists Council. Rosen was decorated by the French Government as an Officer of Arts and Letters and has received career achievement awards from the International Documentary Association, the Hollywood Film Festival, Outfest and was awarded the John Huston Award for Artists’ Rights by the Directors’ Guild of America. For ten years he was the film critic for KCRW National Public Radio and an active member of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association. He was Dean of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television from 1998 – 2009, and is currently Director of the Narrative Literacy Laboratory.
Participating in the seminar: Narrative in Life / Narrative in Film .
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