Ross Lipman is an independent filmmaker, archivist, and essayist. Formerly Senior Film Restorationist at the UCLA Film & Television Archive, he is best known for his restorations of classic works of American independent cinema, including Charles Burnett's Killer of Sheep, Kent Mackenzie's The Exiles, Barbara Loden's Wanda, the Academy Award-winning documentary The Times of Harvey Milk, and films by Charlie Chaplin, Orson Welles, Shirley Clarke, Kenneth Anger, Robert Altman, and John Cassavetes. Lipman's filmmaking works have screened internationally and been collected by museums and institutions including the Oberhausen Kurzfilm Archive, Budapest's Balazs Bela Studios, Munich’s Sammlung Goetz, The Academy Film Archive, Anthology Film Archives, and Northeast Historic Film. These works have spanned experimental, narrative and documentary forms; in recent years coalescing in a unique body of personal essays that cross multiple media platforms, including digital cinema, live documentaries, illustrated lectures, and textual works. Lipman was a 2008 recipient of Anthology Film Archives' Preservation Honors, and is a three-time winner of the National Society of Film Critics' Heritage Award. His writings on film history, technology, and aesthetics have been published in Artforum, Sight and Sound, and numerous academic books and journals. Notfilm is Ross Lipman and Milestone’s first feature production.