Bill Gilcher
Shopstewards Coordinator
When he is not attending Input, William Gilcher is a writer-producer. He divides his time between independent TV and film projects and the Goethe Institut/German Cultural Center, where he is director of media projects for North America. InWashington, he and his co-conspirators have organized several “Best of Input” programs. At the University of Iowa, he wrote about the unknown American fi lms of Jean Renoir. He was director of the Cornell University Cinema and the American co-producer of George Rouquier’s Biquefarre, a classic fi lm about French rural life, which won prizes at the Venice Film Festival and elsewhere. After several years at the Media Program of the National Endowment for the Humanities, Bill joined the staff of the University of Maryland, where he produced a fi lm version of Beckett’s Endgame, recreating Beckett’s own staging with the San Quentin Drama Workshop. For the Goethe-Institut, Bill has specialized in TV, radio and internet projects about cultural issues in the European-American (sometimes non-) dialogue. His current projects include a performance-based video about poet Hilda Stern Cohen (see www.HildaStory.org) and a web-based project about Brazilian cinema. He is also vice-president of the Association Georges Rouquier in Goutrens (Aveyron), France.
