The Sticking Place Theatre and Film productions

Amos Vogel was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1921 to intellectual left-wing middle-class Jewish parents. In the fall of 1938, six months after the Nazis had annexed the country, Vogel and his parents left Austria for the United States. In preparation for his planned move to Palestine, he accepted a scholarship in agricultural training from the National Youth Administration and took classes at the University of Georgia in agricultural sciences.

After deciding to remain in America, Vogel took a degree in economics from the New School for Social Research in New York. From 1947 until 1963, he and his wife Marcia ran Cinema 16, the most successful and influential membership film society in North American history, at its height boasting 7000 members.

After the demise of Cinema 16, Vogel founded the Lincoln Center Film Department and was co-founder of the New York Film Festival, of which he became the first director where he programmed until 1968. His recently re-published 1974 book Film as a Subversive Art details the 'accelerating world-wide trend toward a more liberated cinema, in which subjects and forms hitherto considered unthinkable or forbidden are boldly explored.' Over the years Vogel has worked a film consultant to Grove Press and National Educational Television, a program director of the National Public Television Conference, and has served as Chairman of the American Selection Committee for the Cannes, Moscow, Berlin and Venice film festivals. He has also taught at Harvard University, the New School for Social Research, New York University, and for several years at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School. In 1963 he published the children's book How Little Lori Visited Times Square, with illustrations by Maurice Sendak.

Amos and Marcia Vogel live in Greenwich Village, New York, where they often entertain their two sons and their wives, and four grandchildren.