FILM FESTIVAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Abina Manning
Associate Director, Video Data Bank
Amahl Khouri
Poet
Amy Beste
Film Scholar, Director of Programming, Conversations at the Edge
Ana Luiza Beraba
Programmer, Festival do Rio (Rio International Film Festival, Brazil)
Anna Petrillo
Programmer, DC Asian Pacific American Film Festival
Astria Suparak
Artist, Curator, Director, Warehouse Gallery, Syracuse, NY
Aviva Kempner
Filmmaker & Activist
Catherine Crouch
Filmmaker & Screenwriter
Cecilia Cornejo
Filmmaker, Educator & Independent Curator
Christie George
Women Make Movies
Dara Greenwald
Dara Greenwald is an engaged media maker, relational artist, and independent curator. For more information visit http://www.daragreenwald.com.
Davida Ingram
Film Scholar and Curator
Dean Otto
Assistant Curator Film/Video, Walker Art Center
Diane Gabrysiak
Film Scholar & Programmer
Jennet Thomas
Filmmaker, Co-Founder Exploding Cinema, London
Jennifer Hsu
Jennifer works in the name of feminism and the civil liberties movement. Her most recent video project centers on Palestinian and Iraqi refugees living in Syria. She is also a former Women in the Director's Chair board member, director of Revered Jesse Jackson's TV show, and a public school reform videographer for the University of Chicago Center for Urban School Improvement and San Diego Unified School District.
Johonna McCants is an arts activist, educator, and community organizer. Johonna served as a co-producer and camera operator of the independent music film, Second Thought. She is a steering committee member of the Justice 4 D.C. Youth Coalition, board member of the Blackout Arts Collective, and a member of Incite! Women of Color Against Violence. The recipient of a 2007 Soros Justice Fellowship, Johonna recently launched the Visions to Peace Project, an arts and organizing initiative that engages D.C. youth in creating community-based solutions to violence against youth. She is also pursuing a PhD in American Studies at the University of Maryland.
Karin Wolf
Arts Administrator, City of Madison, Wisconsin; Programmer, Milwaukee International Film Festival
Kelly Gordon
Hirshhorn Museum, Associate Curator
Lucas Hilderbrand
Assistant Professor of Film Studies, University of California- Irvine
Lydia Bendersky
Director of Cultural Programs, Organization of American States
Margaret Murray
Executive Director, Reel Affirmations Film Festival
Marta Urquilla
Senior Program Manager, Youth Activism & Prevention, American Legacy Foundation
Maura King
Distribution Director, Frameline Films
Mojisola Sonoiki
Executive Director, Atlanta Women of Color Film Festival
Mridu Chandra
Mridu Chandra is a filmmaker and writer based in New York. She has been producing both documentaries and narrative films for the past 9 years. Four of her films have premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and one of her documentaries was selected by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences to screen in their 2005 Contemporary Documentary Series. She recently completed a teaching residency at Beaconhouse National University in Lahore, where she established Pakistan's first university level film and video program.
Nicole Fernandez Ferrer
Director, Centre audiovisuel Simone de Beauvoir
Nzingha Kendall
Media Literacy Activist
Peggy Parsons
Curator, Department of Film Programs, National Gallery of Art
Prudence Browne
Media Activist
Rebecca A. Devlin is a San Francisco filmmaker, educator, and historian whose short films have screened internationally. She has also worked with such independent film festivals as Ladyfest Bay Area and Madcat Women’s International Film Festival. Rebecca has been teaching media arts to middle and high school students in San Francisco for over ten years. She has helped start two youth media groups in San Francisco, Renegade Youth Media and S.C.R.E.A.M., and has made numerous films with these groups including, All City: Insights on Graffiti and Run Foo” Rebecca specializes in the medium of Super8 film and has helped to organize numerous screenings including one at ATA for Global Super8 Day.
Rebecca Meyers
Filmmaker, Archive Coordinator, Harvard Film Archive
Sabrina Craig
Activist, Mom, Former Programming Director, Women in the Director’s Chair
Shari Frilot
A Harvard/Radcliffe University, and Whitney Independent Study Program alumna, Shari Frilot produced television for the CBS affiliate in Boston and for WNYC and WNET in New York before creating her own independent award-winning films including A Cosmic Demonstration of Sexuality, What Is A Line? and the 60-minute documentary, Black Nations/Queer Nations? funded by the Ford Foundation. She was the festival director of the MIX festival in New York from 1992 – 1996 and co-founded MIX BRASIL and MIX M�XICO film festivals. She was the co-director of programming for OUTFEST (1998-2001) and is presently a Senior Programmer for the Sundance Film Festival. She is the recipient of a 2004 Rockefeller Media Arts grant and her award winning 16-minute narrative film, Strange & Charmed enjoyed a worldwide festival tour.
Sky Sitney
Sky Sitney is the Director of Programming for SILVERDOCS: AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary Festival. She was previously Programming Director for the Newport International Film Festival and Festival Programmer for the New York Underground Film Festival. She is also a PhD candidate in Cinema Studies at NYU.
Susan Youssef can be found at www.forbiddentowander.com
Tala Hadid
Filmmaker, Film Scholar
Tara Mateik
Filmmaker, Media Activist
Tesia Kosmalski
Live Visual Artist
Timothea Howard
Centro Nia
Tony Gittens
Executive Director Filmfest DC & DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities
Vivian Ostrovsky
Filmmaker, Programmer, Jerusalem Film Festival
Ximena Cuevas
Filmmaker and Educator
Yvonne Welbon
Film Scholar and Filmmaker
Zeinabu irene Davis
Independent Filmmaker and Professor, Communication Dept. University of California, San Diego
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