F.X. Feeney is a writer and filmmaker, based in Los Angeles. He recently co-produced the acclaimed documentary Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession (2004), directed by Xan Cassavetes, which was an official selection at the Cannes Film Festival. Among his screenplays that have been produced for the screen is The Big Brass Ring (1999), from a story by Orson Welles, starring William Hurt, Nigel Hawthorne, Irene Jacob and Miranda Richardson.
F.X. is also the author of two film-related books to be published by Taschen in the autumn of 2005: ROMAN POLANSKI: a Child of the 20th Century, and MICHAEL MANN: 8 Films Down the Line. Since 1980 F.X has been renowned for his essays and interviews on film and literature, published primarily in L.A. Weekly. His work has also appeared in Vanity Fair, People, Variety, California and Written By, the magazine of the Writer’s Guild of America.
Mr. Feeney is a fellow of the Sundance Institute and a frequent guest on public radio.
Trained as an archaeologist/ecologist, FREDERICK MATTHEW WISEMAN was principal Research Scientist at MIT's Center for Materials Research in Archaeology and Ethnology and author of scholarly publications on Maya and Paleo-Indian paleoethnobiology. Now devoted to Abenaki culture and history, he teaches at Johnson State College and is an Abenaki Tribal Council member and director of the Abenaki Tribal Museum and Cultural Center in Vermont.
