Member Profile
Charles Horak
- Primary Outlet:
- KTEP 88.5 FM El Paso, Texas
- Website:
- http://www.ktep.org
- Biography:
- Charles Horak is the host of the radio program, On Film, which airs weekly in El Paso, Texas and the surrounding region on NPR, 88.5FM. Since 2005, Horak has interviews filmmakers, reviews current movie releases, discusses cinema history and promotes regional film programming. Horak is also the co-founder and former Artistic Director of the Plaza Classic Film Festival, is a member of the Association of Moving Image Archivists and has produced several feature length and short films. He is involved as a strategic advisor and restoration producer with the Permanencia Voluntaria Film Archive in Mexico and he is the founder of the Cine Fantástico festival in El Paso – which celebrates popular Mexican films and the work of the pioneering Calderón Bros. He has curated numerous cinema-related art exhibitions and since 2002 has been director of the monthly film screening series, The Film Salon.