This year’s Open Video Conference is October 1-2 in New York City. We’re pleased to announce that independent film strategist Saskia Wilson-Brown will be giving a talk on curation, and the future of the film festival.

Saskia has served as co-director of Los Angeles’ fiercely independent Silver Lake Film Festival, and as a programmer, film juror, advisor and panelist for organizations such as Slamdance, Gen Art, NewFest and IFP. At Current TV, she was head of filmmaker outreach and development for the participatory television and web programming initiatives. She also contributes to the WorkBook Project’s New Breed as a guest writer.

Today, she supports DIY filmmaking by producing and supporting events and educational initiatives around new models in filmmaking—including most recently the OVA/Workbook Project Filmmaker Summit at Slamdance, the TEDActive Innovation Lab, and special film programs like 2009’s Ultra Fabulous Beyond Drag. Her recent projects include helping develop a crowd-sourced fundraising campaign for the Yes Men and exploring unique distribution models with OpenIndie. Finally, she conceived of and runs a roving guerilla screening series called Cinema Speakeasy, which she currently runs from Los Angeles.

Saskia will join a host of other speakers to discuss the future of filmmaking, fundraising, and independent distribution at Open Video Conference 2010.

Have a great idea for OVC? Want to give a talk? Visit http://openvideoalliance.org/proposals.