Architect Kyle Bergman is the Architecture and Design Film Festival founder and director. He has always recognized the strong connection between film and Architecture and identifies the festival as an opportunity to educate, entertain and engage all people who are excited about architecture and design. Kyle Bergman heads his own design/build firm, Bergman Design Team. However, he is always eager to be out of the office and his work as President of the Board for the Pacific Rim Parks Organization keeps him on the move. He has been instrumental in developing parks in California. Other activities that keep Mr. Bergman on the move include the production of architecture exhibits in Moscow and California, as well as teaching at the Yestermorrow Design/Build School in Vermont as well as on the Yestermorrow board of directors. While based in Washington DC, Mr. Bergman created and moderated an architectural lecture series about the design/build process for the Smithsonian Institute. An entrepreneur at heart, in 2000 he founded the publishing company, Alt Spec, to produce a visual resource of unique and alternative products for architects and designers. Currently he is producing a play titled The Glass House, about the design and construction of two famous houses, Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House and Phillip Johnson’s Glass House.