Althea Wasow is a filmmaker and Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies at UC Santa Barbara. Currently, she is developing a Bert Williams essay film, Nobody, and revising her monograph, Moving Images/Modern Policing: Silent Cinema and Its Afterlives, which analyzes the complicity and resistance between police power and motion pictures in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Wasow’s film credits include the wannabe (writer-director), a fiction film with documentary elements that won Best Short at HBO’s New York International Latino Film Festival. In addition to more than 40 film festivals, her films, including The Whole World Revolved Around Her (featuring Wangechi Mutu), have screened at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and the Queens Museum of Art. Her collaborations in film and visual culture also include, For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights (media researcher & consultant, University of Maryland, Baltimore County & Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, 2010), An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar (senior editor & co-writer, Steidl, 2007), Rikers High (co-producer, Showtime/France 2, 2005) and The Innocents (producer & project editor, Umbrage, 2003, 2005).