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Stephen Apkon is the Founder and Executive Director of The Jacob Burns Film Center, a non-profit film and education organization located in Pleasantville, N.Y. The JBFC presents a wide array of documentary, independent, and foreign film programs in a three theater state-of-the-art film complex, and has developed educational programs focused on 21st century literacy. Under Steve’s leadership, the JBFC opened a 27,000 square foot Media Arts Lab in 2009. Since its doors opened in 2001, JBFC education programs have reached over 100,000 children.

Steve serves on the boards of The World Cinema Foundation and Advancing Human Rights. He is President of Big 20 Productions; the director and producer of The Patron, a collaboration with Ido Haar (in pro
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“We are story animals. And we need to tell our stories in as direct, as unmediated, and as emotionally resonant a way as possible.”
Stephen Apkon, The Age of the Image: Redefining Literacy in the a World of Screens

“Images are traced to a different home, and also a different method of acquiring knowledge.”
Stephen Apkon, The Age of the Image: Redefining Literacy in a World of Screens

“More than this, the literacy of images shares a mutually reinforcing relationship with the literacy of words. The two are forever entangled.”
Stephen Apkon, The Age of the Image: Redefining Literacy in a World of Screens

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