Chaz Ebert, CEO of RogerEbert.com

Today, my guest is Chaz Ebert, the CEO of Ebert Digital LLC, publisher of the preeminent movie review site RogerEbert.com and Author of “Its Time to Give a Feck.” She is also a legal adviser and television and movie producer at Ebert Productions.

For twenty-four years, she shared a life with Pulitzer Prize winner Roger Ebert. In their work to foster empathy through cinema and around the globe, they established the Ebertfest Film Festival and the Roger Ebert Center for Film Studies at the University of Illinois.

Chaz has passionately continued to lead all established events, while endeavoring to nurture the next generation of  film journalists, critics, filmmakers, and technologists  through the Roger Ebert Fellowship, launched in 2014 by Sundance Institute founder Robert Redford, and the year-round Roger Ebert Fellowship program established at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the College of Media. She also continues to award the Golden Thumb and Ebert Humanitarian Awards at Ebertfest and at the Toronto and Chicago International Film Festivals to filmmakers who exhibit an unusually compassionate view of the world.