Phil Hallman is the University of Michigan Library’s Film Studies Librarian and Curator of the Screen Arts Mavericks & Makers Collection at the Special Collections Research Library. Additionally, he serves as the Head of the Donald Hall Collection of screenplays and DVDs in the Film, Television, and Media department of the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts. Phil has film and library science degrees from NYU and the University of Michigan, respectively.
Since 2011, Phil has served as a juror at Michael Moore’s Traverse City Film Festival. He presented a panel at the 2012 SXSW Film Festival in Austin, Texas, entitled, “Dig Deep: Libraries, Archives and Filmmaking.” He has also presented conference papers at the 2011, 2012, and 2017 Society of Cinema and Media Studies Conferences: “Uniform Sex: ‘Women in Uniforms’ Sexploitation Films, 1969-1979” (2011), “From Drive-In to Drive-Thru: How Drive-in Movie Theaters Changed Where (and What) We Eat” and “Stand by Your Altman: The Unheralded Authorship of Kathryn Altman” (2017). He is a member of the SCMS Media Archives committee. Phil co-authored a paper “Mapping the Motor City’s Cinemas” with colleague Nichole Scholtz and presented at the 2013 conference for the Association of Conference and Research Libraries.
Phil has played a key role in growing the collection, working closely with the mavericks and makers themselves, as well as their families, the occasional legal team, and of course the scholars, researchers, and documentary filmmakers who use the collection materials for their work.
Screen Arts Mavericks & Makers 