The City of College of New York has created its first film advisory board, featuring a number of acclaimed, award-winning filmmakers and individuals who work in the film industry, all of whom are committed to public education. Oscar winner Roger Ross Williams will lead the board, with Oscar winner Laura Poitras, Emmy winner Dawn Porter, Oscar nominee and CCNY alum Stanley Nelson, Apollo Theater executive producer Kamilah Forbes, actress and CCNY professor Ally Sheedy, Bushwick Film Festival founder Kweighbaye Kotee and acclaimed director Nancy Savoca as board members. The board will promote and support the college’s BFA and MFA film programs and offer exclusive student master classes each year. Master classes this fall include Porter on the director-dp relationship, Savoca on working with actors and guest and MFA alum Claire Shanley (a producer on The Gilded Age and Task) on producing TV and life after film school. Masterclasses from other advisors, including Williams, will take place in the spring. “The City College MFA is having a Renaissance moment. We are not only thrilled to welcome …