Jean Picker Firstenberg has been the CEO and Director of the Film school, the American Film Institute since 1980. She received her B.A. from Mount Holyoke College in 1958. Jump to: navigation, search A Film school is a generic term for any educational institution dedicated to teaching moviemaking, including, but not limited to, film production, theory, and writing for the screen. ... Jump to: navigation, search The American Film Institute is an independent non-profit organization created by the National Endowment for the Arts, which was established in 1965 when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act. ... Jump to: navigation, search Mount Holyoke College, a liberal arts college in South Hadley, Massachusetts, is the oldest womens college in the United States, and the oldest continuing institution of womens higher education in the world. ...
WASHINGTON - Postmaster General John E. Potter today announced the appointment of JeanPickerFirstenberg, director and CEO of the American Film Institute (AFI), and Cary R. Brick, retired U.S. House of Representatives executive, to the Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee (CSAC).
Firstenberg is in her 21st year as director and CEO of AFI.
One of Firstenberg's earliest accomplishments came in 1981 when the institute's eight-acre campus in Los Angeles was acquired.
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