Holly Willis is Director of Academic Programs at USC's Institute for Multimedia Literacy. She is former editor of RES (magazine)

RES (magazine)

RES was a bi-monthly magazine chronicling the best in cutting edge film, music, art, design and culture. RES was launched with a preview issue in January 1997 at the Sundance Film Festival. The full-length premiere issue debuted in August 1997 with music video directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie...

 and co-curator of the RESFest

RESFest

RESFEST was by the 2000s the most prominent digital film festival in North America. It was a leading global showcase of new digital filmmakers alongside England's Onedotzero festival. The festival toured the world and in 2005 travelled to 35 cities in the USA, Canada, UK, Japan, Australia,...

 and former co-founder and West Coast Editor of Filmmaker Magazine

Filmmaker Magazine

Filmmaker is a quarterly publication magazine covering issues relating to independent film. The magazine was founded in 1992 by Karol Martesko-Fenster, Scott Macaulay and Holly Willis...

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Willis is also the author of the book New Digital Cinema, Editor of The New Ecology of Things and she publishes a weekly blog about media art in Los Angeles for KCET.