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Mr. Renan graduated from Yale University. A Rockefeller Grant enabled him to write the first history of experimental media. He founded the Pacific Film Archive at the University of California, Berkeley, and has lectured on media at museums, colleges and conferences around the world. He currently serves on the Advisory Board for eComm, an annual conference on emerging communications. Renan remains an active member of the Writers’ Guild of America. His film and television credits include the movie Lambada, the color TV series The Untouchables, the PBS series The Japanese Film (co-written with U.S. Ambassador to Japan Edwin Reischauer), as well as special episodes of Hercules and Xena and Murder She Wrote for Universal Studios.