Lead Educators/ Selection Committee

Matthew Boratenski, SILVERDOCS Coordinator for Education

Matthew Boratenski is the AFI Screen Education Maryland Coordinator and AFI Silver Theatre Education Coordinator. He taught English, computer applications and social studies for 30 years in Montgomery County Public Schools and served as English Resource Teacher/Department Chair at Paint Branch High School, September 1997-2002. His duties included the following supervisory activities: Observing and scheduling a professional staff of 20 teachers; coordinating and supervising student interns from Johns Hopkins University; designing and implementing school-wide and system-wide staff development activities; serving as a member of the school leadership team/ instructional council among many other duties. In 1997, he became the MCPS liaison with the American Film Institute’s Novel Look at Film project and writer/editor of viewing guide. Since then, he has recruited and trained teachers from the state of Maryland and the District of Columbia to use filmmaking as a 21st Century tool to engage student learning of all subjects. At the Silver Theatre he has created and managed the Educational Screenings and the Community Screenings Programs which bring students, senior citizens and mental health providers to the theater to screen films with an educational component. In 2006 he was awarded the Montgomery County Public Schools Distinguished Service to Public Education. In 2008, he produced SchoolDocs: Harnessing the Power of Media in Education as part of the SILVERDOCS International Conference.

Diana B. Ingraham, SILVERDOCS Conference Producer

Ingraham joined SILVERDOCS in 2004 as the founding producer of the International Documentary Conference. She is the co-founder and managing director of US Independents, a cooperative agency that works with independent producers worldwide to provide informed access to the international producing/broadcasting communities and marketplace. Diana has broad experience in the television industry, working as both a producer and a consultant to producers and funders of television and multi-media projects with emphasis in particular on US Public Television and its varied local and national constituencies. She is a former board member of The Cavaliere Foundation and Women in Film and Video and was a 2006 WIFV Woman of Vision Honoree. She is also a member of the advisory board of the International Documentary Association.

Lawrence Carter-Long, Curator of the disTHIS! Film Series

Lawrence Carter-Long is the Executive Director of the Disabilities Network of NYC and the Curator of the groundbreaking disTHIS! Film Series: disability through a whole new lens. As a media critic/social commentator, he has been featured on CNN (including regular appearances on Nancy Grace), the New York Times, NBC’s Today Show and National Public Radio, among other regional and local outlets. He regularly facilitates workshops on effective communication techniques at universities and conferences across the nation and is a producer on the Largest Minority Radio Show, where he reports on disability arts, culture, and community.