Ellen Seidler

Ellen Seidler is 30 year film and journalism veteran, Ellen Seidler began her career in journalism at ABC News in New York as an assignment editor, and later joined KRON-TV in San Francisco as a photojournalist and editor. She has also been a lecturer in Digital Media at UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism and taught workshops for the Knight Digital Media Center at Berkeley. Over the past two decades, she has also produced/directed/ and worked as a cinematographer on a variety of independent film and documentary projects. Her directing credits include the award-winning documentary "Fighting for Our Lives-Facing AIDS in San Francisco" and the indie feature "And Then Came Lola" (co-directed/produced with Fast Girl Films partner Megan Siler) which screened in LGBT film festivals throughout the world. Following the release of "And Then Came Lola" in 2010 Seidler began to speak out on the issue of online piracy and began documenting online piracy's link to profit (via advertising revenue) and its negative impact on content creators. She continues to blog at Vox Indie (voxindie.org) exploring issues surrounding online copyright and content creation. Seidler is a member of the Advisory Board for the Digital Citizens Alliance and given presentations on piracy and copyright issues at Canadian Music Week, Stanford, UC Davis Law schools and George Mason's (CPIP) Center for the Protection of Intellectual Property. Her anti-piracy efforts have been covered by a variety of news outlets including NPR, Fortune Magazine, and Backstage. Seidler received her B.A. in fine arts from Harvard University, and her M.A. in journalism from U.C. Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism.