Annette Insdorf, an internationally renowned film scholar, is Professor of Film at Columbia University’s School of the Arts, and Moderator of the 92nd Street Y’s Reel Pieces series, where she has interviewed hundreds of celebrities. She is the author of Indelible Shadows: Film and the Holocaust (with a foreword by Elie Wiesel) and Cinematic Overtures: How to Read Opening Scenes. Born in Paris to Polish Holocaust survivors, she received her Ph.D. from Yale University, where she taught for over ten years. She was honored by the 2021 Telluride Film Festival with its Special Medallion.