Filmfest DC Board of Directors
Kandace Laass
Chair
Max N. Berry
Attorney-at-Law
Alberto Casciero
Director, Learning Resources Division, University of the District of Columbia
Bonnie Cohen
Anthony Gittens
Director, Washington, DC International Film Festival
Executive Director, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities
Stephen X. Graham
President, Crosshill Financial Group, Inc.
Arnold P. Lutzker
Lutzker & Lutzker, LLP
John M. Mendonca
Partner, KPMG LLP
Jennifer Cover Payne
Director, Cultural Alliance of Greater Washington
Ted Pedas
President, Circle Films, Inc.
Alan Rubin
Film Consultant
Robert Sacheli
Creative Services Manager, American Occupational
Therapy Association
Marilyn Weiner
President, Screenscope
Festival Staff
Tony Gittens
Festival Director
Shirin Ghareeb
Assistant Festival Director
Jared Traver
Technical Director & Programmer
Billy Raum
Technical Director
Kendra Anderson
Coordinating Assistant
Amy Shomberg
Print Traffic Coordinator
Marcia Carlson
Hospitality & Guest Travel Coordinator
Claire Decamps
Jacqueline Lenchek
Guest Services
Varissa McMickens
Volunteer Coordinator
Jane Fox
Assistant Volunteer Coordinator
Bill McLeod
Volunteer Consultant
Robyn Thoelke
Jacque Jones
Theatre Coordinator
Tommie Adams Jr.
Constance Blackwell
Andrew Davis
Martina Gauss
Bertha Hall
Charles Kovatch
Jonathan Lifland
Donné Malloy-Murray
Bruce Snyder
Zipper Viloski
Bahram Zandi
Theatre Managers
Joia Jefferson Nuri
Public Relations
Connie Poole
Marketing & Sponsorship Coordinator
Aisha Davis
Opening & Closing Night Galas Producer
Susan Barocas
Capital Focus Award Coordinator
Richard Seidel
Opening Night Gala
Linda Posell
Director's Roundtable
Sandy Hassan
Cinema for Seniors
John Hall
Print Runner
Chad Evans Wyatt
Photographer
Latasha Banks
Dasha Halkin
Courtney Thomas
Dee Wong
Interns
Programmers
Tony Gittens
Senior Programmer
Shirin Ghareeb
Jared Traver
Shorts & Local Film Programs
Programming Advisors
Antoine Sebire
Embassy of France
Manjula Kumar
Smithsonian Institution
Peggy Parsons
National Gallery of Art
Erju Ackman
Festival Catalog
Eddie Cockrell
Senior Editor
Jill Tunick
Editor
Mary Pettigrew
Ampersand Graphic Design, Inc.
Matt Dawson
Illustrator
Festival Website
Tuan Tran
Webmaster
Line Jumper and Security Camera Trailers
Dan Corrigan, Producer
Mark Traver, Director
Monument Films
Special Thanks to...
Roland Celette
Antoine Sebire
Embassy of France
Juan Garcia De Oteyza
Mexican Cultural Institute
George Firmeza
Mariangela Bittencourt-Emilio
Embassy of Brazil
Jane Scott
Embassy of Australia
Marcelo Cima
Embassy of Argentina
Jorge Sobredo
Curro Tardio
Embassy of Spain
Vilma Anyzova
Embassy of the Czech Republic
Sylvia Blume
Goethe-Institut Washington
Christine Washington
Embassy of Switzerland
Antoine Khalife
Unifrance
Linda Blackaby
San
Francisco International Film Festival
Crystal Palmer
Mayor's Office of
Motion Picture and Television Development
Sarah Taylor
Allied
Advertising
Ted Cooper
Elvis Waterman
Regal Entertainment Group
Ambassador
Clovis Maksoud
Director, Center for the Global South, American University
Carolyn Naifeh
March & Associates
Stan Collendar
Qorvis Communications
Rita Venturelli
Michele Giacalone
Italian Cultural Institute
