After a 30+ year career in independent film acquisition and distribution, Gary segued into a new role as film curator and general manager of New Plaza Cinema’s various locations on the upper west side, and now its “virtual cinema.” Gary’s keen eye for film curation has been a significant contributor to the success and growth of NPC.

Guy-Max Delphin is founder and CEO of Delphin Investments (DI) and Chairman of DHFG (dba Quisqueya Capital Advisors “QCA”). He is responsible for strategic vision of the companies. Mr. Delphin is an experienced executive with a proven track record of organizing, recruiting and building companies. Currently, Mr. Delphin advises the CEOs of a few companies across economic sectors.

Claudine Bacher is the Founding Chair and Immediate Past Co-Chair of The Eleanor Roosevelt Val-Kill Partnership. Her organization aims to promote and sustain Eleanor Roosevelt’s ideals as one of the world’s most courageous leaders for social justice so that future generations can be inspired through her example.

As a manager of television and radio personalities, authors, broadcast journalists and other notable public figures, his clients include Jane Pauley; former Secretaries of Defense Robert Gates and Ash Carter; Dr. Condoleezza Rice; composer, musician and educator Wynton Marsalis; Lou Dobbs; broadcaster and former Director of the National Economic Council Larry Kudlow; acclaimed biographer Kitty Kelley; NPR’s Scott Simon; Shoshana Zuboff, author of the groundbreaking book “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism;” noted investor and world traveler Jim Rogers; and renown businessman Sam Zell.

Marie-Monique Steckel is President Emerita of the French Institute Alliance Française
Marie-Monique has been president of the French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF) for 18 years from 2004 to 2022.
The FIAF in New York is the most important in the world:It promotes the French language with 6000 students a year and a vast array of contemporary cultural programs in New York.
The FIAF has weekly showings of French films and has an annual festival of animation films.
French citizen Marie-Monique has been Director of Communications for the Party of Jacques Chirac campaign in 1978.
She then created and led the first offices of France Telecom in New York from 1979 to 1999. In 1999, Marie-Monique joined Ronald Lauder’s team as advisor to the non profit andcommercial activities in Eastern Europe till 2004.
She is a graduate from Sciences Politiques (Sciences Po) in Paris and Yale.
She is now consultant to Charles Cohen for the restoration of the iconic cinema La Pagode in Paris
Marie Monique has received many prestigious awards from the French Government

Officier de La Legion d’Honneur
Officier de l’Ordre du Mérite
Officier des Arts et des Lettres

Jamal Joseph is a writer, director, producer educator and activist. His film and television writer/director credits include “Chapter & Verse” (theatrical and BET) which won the Pan African Film Festival’s Audience Choice Award and was a New York Times Critic’s pick. “Drive by” and “Da Zone” for STARZ in BLACK, “Hard Chorus” and “Hip Hop in the Promised Land” for Comedy Central,” and “Hughes Dream Harlem” for PBS. Additional screenplay credits include “Knights of the South” for A&E and “Ali: An American Hero” for FOX. Joseph is an executive producer and is featured in the Emmy-nominated FX docuseries “Dear Mama” about the life and legacy of Tupac and Afeni Shakur. Joseph is featured in the PBS documentary “Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution” and the EPIX docuseries “By Whatever Means Necessary.” He is adapting his critically acclaimed memoir “Panther Baby” into a feature film.
Joseph was a leader of the Harlem Chapter of the Black Panther Party and spent nine years in prison. He began writing and directing plays in prison and founded a groundbreaking multiracial theater ensemble while incarcerated at Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary. He has since written, directed and produced plays and theatrical events at National Black Theater, New Heritage Theatre, Riverside Theater, St. James Theater, The Apollo, Theater at Madison Square Garden, Miller Theater and Carnegie Hall.
Joseph is the co-founder of the Oscar® and Grammy®-nominated Impact Youth Theatre. He is the Executive Artistic Director of New Heritage Theatre, the oldest Black non-profit theater in New York State.
Joseph has been a member of Columbia University’s film faculty for 25 years. He is a full professor of professional practice in film and was the first African American to serve as the head of the screen and television writing program and as Chair of the Graduate Film Division. He is the author of Tupac Legacy, an interactive biography of Tupac Shakur published by Atria Books.
Joseph’s awards include an NAACP leadership award, Black Filmmakers’ Hall of Fame Award, Paul Robeson Award from Actor’s Equity Association, AUDELCO Leadership Award and Sundance Directing Fellowship. He is a three-time winner of the National Black Program Consortium Prized Pieces Award, a Cine Golden Eagle, a Purpose Prize from Encore.org and a 2008 Best Song Oscar nomination.

After receiving a law degree from Yale, Norma worked in private law firms, in government, and in the corporate sector. She served as Chair of the Antitrust Section of the NYS Bar Assoc. and the Energy Cmte. of the NYC Bar Assoc., the General Counsel to the Greater NY Regulatory Assoc., and was Executive Editor of its Monthly Update.

After a 30+ year career in independent film acquisition and distribution, Gary segued into a new role as film curator and general manager of New Plaza Cinema’s various locations on the upper west side, and now its “virtual cinema.” Gary’s keen eye for film curation has been a significant contributor to the success and growth of NPC.

Max is a film historian and author who has been delivering multimedia talks on cinema history for over two decades. Max’s books include The Cinéphile’s Guide to the Great Age of Cinema, The Crime Films of Anthony Mann, and a major contribution to Thornton Wilder/New Perspectives.

Marianne has held leadership roles in several international arts and fashion companies including being CEO of Art Partner and CEO and President of Rachel Roy. A native of France, she served as CEO of Givenchy and CEO of Nike France. She is a Board Member of the International House and a consultant for the fashion and entertainment industry.