Personal notes on Wim Wenders’ film Pina… by Alla Kovgan Alla Kovgan is a Boston-based filmmaker, born in Moscow. Her films and films that she co-directed have been presented worldwide including at Sundance, Rotterdam, Toronto, Melbourne, Durban, Oberhausen, Clemont-Ferrand, MOMA, Louvre, Centre Pompidou, PBS (US), ZDF (Germany) and numerous other festivals. Alla’s most recent film NORA (2008), her collaboration with the British filmmaker David Hinton, is an art film – a poetic biography of the Zimbabwean choreographer Nora Chipaumire. NORA has been an official selection of over 80 festivals, received 23 awards and was broadcast on PBS in 2010. The two latest documentaries, which Alla co-directed and edited, an Emmy-nominated “Traces of the Trade” (2007) and “My perestroika” (2009) premiered at Sundance and on P.O.V. (PBS). Alla’s projects have been supported by Open Society Institute, LEF Foundation, Trust for Mutual Understanding, Bank of America Celebrity Series, among others. Since 2000, she has taught and curated dance film and avant-garde cinema worldwide. In 2009, Alla was awarded a Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship and a Brother Thomas Fellowship for artists working at a high level of excellence and creativity. Apples & Oranges… & Horse-Races by Marta Renzi Marta Renzi is a choreographer and dance filmmaker, and the recipient of 7 NEA Fellowships, a BESSIE, and the first Dancing in the Streets award as “a fearless explorer.” Her live and video works have been shown in the US and abroad, on PBS and in community centers. Renzi has served on the Board of Advisors for the New York Foundation for the Arts and as a consultant for the New England Foundation for the Arts’ program “Building Community Through Culture.” She joined the Board of Directors of DFA in September 2008.   Re: 1-287754863 Sunscreen Serenade An exchange with Krota Willberg Kriota Willberg explores her interest in dance, and the body sciences through film, performance, writing, drawing, and needlework. Her film The Bentfootes (2008), won 2nd Place in Narrative Feature at the Landlocked Film Festival, and Sunscreen Serenade was nominated for a Jury Prize in the 2010 Dance On Camera Festival. Her blog, thecinematologist.blogspot.com examines medical themes through the lens of Hollywood films.  She teaches drawing, anatomy, pathology, and massage, in a variety of colleges and studios littered around the country.