Andy Rice is a PhD candidate in the department of Communication at UCSD, writing a dissertation in the field of documentary theory. He received a masters in 20<sup>th</sup> century US cultural history from UCSD in 2006, and graduated from the Visual and Environmental Studies Department at Harvard, specializing in autobiographical, experimental, and observational film/video production in 2001. He spent four years after graduation working as an independent filmmaker in Cambridge, MA working on projects for Cambridge-based filmmakers Errol Morris, Ross McElwee, and Robb Moss amongst others while serving as a teaching assistant for video production classes. Since joining the communication department at UCSD, he has collaborated on a series of short documentaries on issues pertaining to the economic recession of 2008 and the fee increases in California’s public universities in 2009-10. He is currently finishing his third feature length film, <em>About Face! Reenacting War in a Time of War</em>, a documentary critical of the cultural politics of commemorating American military history after 9/11, as told through the experiences of groups that reenact battles from the American Revolutionary War in New England as Redcoats (see here for more information: http://www.aboutfacedoc.blogspot.com/). The film had a preview screening at the Athens International Film Festival in 2010, and will be finished by December of this year. He is honored to be working with Zeinabu Davis on <em>Spirits of Rebellion</em>.