Patti Bruck is a filmmaker residing in Boulder, Colorado. Her films have shown at festivals internationally. Her acclaimed film Slippage won the Best Documentary Award at the Athens Film Festival, Honorable Mention at the Baltimore Film Festival, and was featured on the PBS series “The Independents.” The film was also requested for the Cork International Film Festival and the Mannheim Germany International Film Festival. She has received numerous grants and fellowships for her film work and was nominated for a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship in film production. Her recent film House of Hazards played in numerous festivals. She has taught film production courses at the University of Colorado since 1990, where she also initiated and coordinated visiting artist programs and conferences on independent film. Prior to teaching, she was the program coordinator at the Rocky Mountain Film Center where she administered the Western States Regional Media Arts Fellowships, the Colorado Film Network, and a number of curated programs for the MacArthur Foundation. She has also served on numerous granting panels for the Colorado Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Pennsylvania Arts Council, has served on the selection committees of the Black Maria Film Festival and is currently a selection committee and programming advisor for the Boulder International Film Festival. She was a Trustee of the internationally renowned Robert Flaherty Documentary Film Seminar for ten years, and was its President from 2002-2010. She is currently at work on a documentary about felons in recovery, funded by the Boulder Arts Commission