Filmfest DC 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

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

Marilyn Weiner
President, Screenscope

Festival Staff

Tony Gittens
Festival Director

Shirin Ghareeb
Deputy Festival Director

Jared Traver
Technical Director and Programmer

Molly Hubbs
Coordinating Assistant

Matthew Noonan
Print Traffic and Technical Coordinator

Sherry Schwechten
Wuiping Yap
Volunteer Coordinators

Constance Blackwell
Theater Coordinator

Stephen Kharfen
Robyn Thoelke
Assistant Theater Coordinators

Don Chan
Hospitality and Guest Travel Coordinator

Anne Delaney
Events Coordinator

Linda Blackaby
Justice Matters Curator
Director, Impact Project

Michon Boston
Justice Matters Coordinator

Juliet Burch
Justice Matters Assistant

Don Bush
Andrew Davis
Sydney-Chanele Dawkins
Paul Haas
Bertha Hall
Phil Harris
Jill Larvo
Jonathan Lifland
Donné Malloy-Murray
Ken Rosenberg
Bruce Snyder
Christopher Teed
Zipper Viloski
Marelise Voss
Bahram Zandi
Theater Managers

Laura Gross
Jordan Stinnett
Scott Circle Communications, Inc.

Aisha Davis
Opening Night Gala Producer

Susan Barocas
Circle Award Coordinator
Director, Washington Jewish Film Festival

John Hall
Print Runner

Yuyu Kim
Graphic Designer

Chad Evans Wyatt
Photographer

Sun Hashmi
Social Networking Outreach

Lydia Chammas
Maya Liddel
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
Caribbean Journeys

Festival Catalog

Eddie Cockrell
Dave Nuttycombe
Film Note Writers

Jill Tunick
Editor

Amanda Stefano
Graphic Design

Greenfield/Belser Ltd.
Catalog Cover Design

Festival Website

Tuan Tran
Website Programmer and Designer

Filmfest DC Trailer

LeRoy R. Konen, Jr.
Chris DiNardo
Deisha Gardner
Cerebral Lounge

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

Special thanks to . . .

Roland Celette
Alice Chamblas
Amélie Depardon
Embassy of France

Hosan Kim
Korean Cultural Institute

Guillermo Corral
Curro Tardio
Embassy of Spain

Norbert Bärlocher
Melanie Bühler
Embassy of Switzerland

Wilfried Eckstein
Sylvia Blume
Goethe-Institut Washington

Thalia Lin
Embassy of Taiwan

Joanna Raczynska
Department of Film Programs
National Gallery of Art

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

Sarah Taylor
Ivory Zorich
Allied Advertising

Ted Cooper
Jonathan Douglas
Elvis Waterman
Regal Entertainment Group

Conrad Cafritz
Jerry Early
Modus Hotels

Ivan Duque
Anne Vena
IDB

San Francisco Green Film Festival