CBI's Co-Presidents

Larry Hott

Larry joined CBI in 1986 and has served on the board twice, from 1988 to 1993 and again from 1998 to the present. He has been chair of Tikkun Olam and House and Properties (each for five years) and has served on numerous committees including Personnel, Rabbi Search, and Financial Oversight. He has also been a CBI vice president and member of the Executive Committee. Larry and his wife Diane Garey have run their own business, Florentine Films/Hott Productions, a documentary film company, for thirty years. Before becoming a filmmaker Hott was an attorney.

Larry has been producing documentary films since 1978, when he left the practice of law to join Florentine Films. His awards include an Emmy, two Academy Award nominations, a George Foster Peabody Award, the duPont-Columbia Journalism Award, the Erik Barnouw Award, five American Film Festival Blue Ribbons, Fourteen CINE Golden Eagles, screenings at Telluride, and first-place awards from the San Francisco, Chicago, National Educational, and New England Film Festivals. He is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Director’s Guild of America.

Susan Mosler

Born and raised in Manchester, Ct, Susan settled in Northampton in 1997. CBI has played an active role in her life over the last eleven years and she looks forward with great joy to working with Larry as co-president. Susan sees our community at a crossroads, and hopes to help guide us in the process of creating a vision of what we might look like in the years to come. Susan has two children, Emily and Nathan, and works as a physician in the practice of internal medicine. She studies Tanya, reads, enjoys kayaking and spending time with friends and family.