Fine Arts Films is a production studio based in Northern England and Hollywood. It was founded in 1955 by animator John David Wilson as a means to preserve the notion of animation as an art form.

The company's first production was Tara, the Stonecutter, which won high praise and many awards including the New York Golden Eagle, the London Film Festival Award, and the Edinburgh Film Festival Award. The next production was the groundbreaking animated music special Petroushka (based on Stravinsky's ballet) for NBC's "Sol Hurok Music Hour". It was noted for being one of the first animated shows ever aired on television and for being what could be called the first music video. Stravinsky himself conducted the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

Fine Arts Films sought to raise the bar on children's entertainment by creating educational and illuminating shorts, many of which aired all of the country in schools during class. These shorts also aired as part of NBC's show "Exploring" and went on to win the Peabody Award. Wilson additionally has seven Golden Eagle Awards for this work.

Joni Mitchell, CC (born Roberta Joan Anderson; November 7, 1943) is a Canadian musician, singer songwriter, and painter. Mitchell began singing in small nightclubs in Saskatchewan and Western Canada and then busking in the streets and dives of Toronto. In 1965 she moved to the United States and, touring constantly, began to be recognized when her original songs ("Urge for Going," "Chelsea Morning," "Both Sides, Now," "The Circle Game") were covered by notable folk singers, allowing her to sign with Reprise Records and record her own debut album in 1968. Settling in Southern California, Mitchell and her popular songs like "Big Yellow Taxi" and "Woodstock" helped define an era and a generation. Her more starkly personal 1971 recording Blue has been called one of the best albums ever made. Musically restless, Mitchell switched labels and began moving toward jazz rhythms by way of lush pop textures on 1974's Court and Spark, her best-selling LP, featuring her radio hits "Help Me" and "Free Man in Paris."

Kathryn Kolbert is the Constance Hess Williams Director of Barnard College’s Athena Center for Leadership Studies. She is a former president of People for the American Way and the People for the American Way Foundation.

Before she became a journalist, Ms. Kolbert was a public interest attorney specializing in women’s reproductive rights. From 1979-1988, she was a Staff Attorney with the Women's Law Project and Community Legal Services in Philadelphia. Ms. Kolbert served as the State Coordinating Counsel of the American Civil Liberty Union's Reproductive Freedom Project in New York from 1988-1992. Between 1992 to 1997, she directed domestic litigation and public policy programs for the Center for Reproductive Law and Policy, where she was Co-Founder and Vice President.

In 1992, Ms. Kolbert successfully argued before the United States Supreme Court in Planned Parenthood v. Casey, widely considered one of the most important rulings regarding reproductive rights in the United States. She has been credited with saving the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade.

Henry Sandy Jacobs (born October 9, 1924) is an American sound artist and humorist.

Jacobs was born in Chicago, Illinois. After a tour in the Air Corps - during which time he acquired some broadcast experience, and graduation from the University of Chicago, he moved to Mexico City. There, around 1950, he appeared on Mexico radio station XEW and fledgling television station XHTV.

In 1952, Jacobs returned to Chicago and began experimenting with reel to reel tape recorders, taking particular advantage of the ease with which they made it possible to manipulate sound directly. Ambient, everyday sound, and especially the structural variety of apparently spontaneous sounds, interested him; at one point he ventured to Haiti to make street recordings. While attending graduate courses at the University of Illinois, he also produced a regular program on the campus radio station (WILL) entitled Music and Folkore, which is believed by some to be one of the first presentations of "world music" to an American audience.