Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa is a filmmaker and a professor of film at Columbia College in Chicago. She is the author of several essays and articles on Iranian cinema. Jonathan Rosenbaum was the film critic for the Chicago Reader from 1987 to 2008. He archives his work at jonathanrosenbaum.net. His books include Goodbye Cinema, Hello Cinephilia and Discovering Orson Welles.