Board of Directors

Max N. Berry, Chair
Attorney at Law

Alberto Casciero
Director, Learning Resources Division, University of the District of Columbia

Tony Gittens
Director, Washington, DC International Film Festival

Stephen X. Graham
President, Crosshill Financial Group, Inc.

Arnold P. Lutzker
Lutzker & Lutzker LLP

Dorothy Pierce McSweeny
Chair Emeritus, DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities

John M. Mendonca

Jennifer Cover Payne
Director, Cultural Alliance of Greater Washington

Ted Pedas
President, Circle Films, Inc.

Alan Rubin
Film Consultant

Robert Sacheli
Smithsonian Associates

John M. Vine
Senior Counsel, Covington & Burling LLP

Marilyn Weiner
President, Screenscope

Festival Staff

Tony Gittens
Festival Director

Shirin Ghareeb
Deputy Festival Director

Jared Traver
Technical Director and Programmer

Alexandria Kelly
Coordinating Assistant

Billy Raum
Print Traffic and Technical Coordinator

Mathew Harkins
Ximin Li
Volunteer Coordinators

Constance Blackwell
Theater Coordinator

Stephen Kharfen
Christopher Teed
Robyn Thoelke
Assistant Theater Coordinators

Don Chan
Guest Travel Coordinator

Wuiping Yap
Hospitality Coordinator

Anne Delaney
Events Coordinator

Juliet Burch
Impact Project Assistant

Aimee Bosse
Don Bush
Dan Daniels
Andrew Davis
Syndey-Chanele Dawkins
Paul Haas
Bertha Hall
Molly Hubbs
Jill Larvo
Donné Malloy-Murray
Ken Rosenberg
Sherry Schwechten
Bruce Snyder
Regan Spurlock
Zipper Viloski
Marelise Voss
Echo Xie
Bahram Zandi
Theater Managers

Laura Gross
Maureen Higgins
Scott Circle Communications, Inc.

Aisha Davis
Opening Night & Closing Event Producer

Molly Hubbs
Writer

Susan Barocas
Circle Award Coordinator

John Hall
Print Runner

Chad Evans Wyatt
Photographer

Derek Hayes
Susie Myers
Festival Assistants

Programmers

Tony Gittens
Senior Programmer

Shirin Ghareeb
Programmer

Jared Traver
Shorts and Local Film Programmer

Linda Blackaby
Senior Programming Consultant

Programming Advisors

Manjula Kumar
Smithsonian Institution

Peggy Parsons
National Gallery of Art

Dera Tompkins

Festival Catalog

Eddie Cockrell
Dave Nuttycombe
Film Note Writers

Jill Tunick
Editor

Jill Madsen
Graphic Design

Alexis Thornlow
Catalog Cover Design

Festival Website

Tuan Tran
Website Programmer and Designer

Filmfest DC Trailer

LeRoy R. Konen, Jr.
Tag Gieselman
Chris DiNardo
Alexandra Noyes
Deisha Gardner
Cerebral Lounge

Julie Mays
Wall Matthews
Rich Isaac
Clean Cuts Music & Sound Design

Special thanks to

Raphael Tosti
Pedro Saldanha
Embassy of Brazil
Alice Chamblas
Embassy of France

Myonnghwa Lee
Korean Cultural Institute

Guillermo Corral
Curro Tardio
Embassy of Spain

Sylvia Blume
Goethe-Institut Washington

Thalia Lin
Embassy of Taiwan

Michele Giacalone
Italian Cultural Institute

Crystal Palmer
Mayor's Office of Motion Picture and Television Development

Sarah Taylor
Gloria Jones
Emilia Stefanczyk
Allied Advertising

Jonathan Douglas
Elvis Waterman
Regal Entertainment Group

Ivan Duque
Anne Vena
Inter-American Development Bank

Warren David
American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee

Justice Matters Community Partners

Ashoka-Innovators for the Public
Center for Social Media
Docs in Progress
Documentary Center
The Jerusalem Fund
US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation
Women in Film & Video