Chuck Rose founded Arthouse Film Festival in 1991. His film festivals and symposia have been sponsored by Universal Pictures, Paramount Pictures, SAG-AFTRA Foundation, Rutgers University, Kean University, Caldwell University and more than a dozen others. Rose has authored 32 screenplays, directed Vietnam Vets starring Danny Aiello, worked in the story department at Orion Pictures, served as a Contributing Editor at Movies USA and written feature articles for The Hollywood Reporter. He has held faculty positions at Seton Hall University, Adelphi University and The New School for Social Research where he developed a program in Film Script Analysis adopted by executives at HBO and ABC. Rose is an alumnus of the Warner Bros. Writers Workshop, and holds an MA in Cinema History, Criticism and Aesthetics from the University of Southern California and a BFA in Film Production from New York University.