David Weiner
In this moderated Q&A, David Weiner will share his experience as a journalist, a curator of nostalgia as a writer and director, and how films in the horror and science fiction genre historically have had social and political impact embedded in their narrative. Weiner is the writer and director of the three-part 1980s horror genre documentaries In Search of Darkness and the five-hour ’80s sci-fi documentary In Search of Tomorrow. He is also executive producer of Aliens Expanded, a deep-dive documentary about the Aliens film franchise. A three-decade veteran of the entertainment industry both on the set and behind a keyboard, Weiner was editor of Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine, a writer for The Hollywood Reporter’s Heat Vision and a senior editor at Entertainment Tonight for 13 years. University Student Union Ballroom