Posted: Mon., Feb. 28, 2000

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AFI panels its board with 6

Stringer: New members to help bridge entertainment, new technology

The American Film Institute has elected six new members to its board of trustees.

The new board members are: Screen Actors Guild prexy William Daniels; Howard U. communications chair Bill Duke; PMK praisery founder Patricia Kingsley; Warner Bros. Home Video prexy Warren Lieberfarb; Janet H. Murray, director of the Georgia Institute of Technology's Laboratory for Advanced Computing Initiatives; and MGM CEO Alex Yemenidjian.

The new trustees were selected in hopes of fastening bonds with new talent, educational institutions, studios and Netcasters, AFI said. Sony chairman and AFI board chair Howard Stringer expects that the new members will "help to strengthen AFI's ability to effectively bridge the worlds of traditional entertainment and new technology."

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