Filmfest DC Board of Directors

Max N. Berry, Chair
Attorney at Law

Arch Campbell
Film Critic and Entertainment Reporter

Albert Casciero
Former Director, Learning Resources Division, University of the District of Columbia

Tony Gittens
Director, Washington, DC International Film Festival

Arnold P. Lutzker
Lutzker & Lutzker LLP

Ted Pedas
President, Circle Films, Inc.

Festival Staff

Tony Gittens
Festival Director

Shirin Ghareeb
Deputy Festival Director

Gil Tanghe-Purkey
Festival Coordinator

Charles Powell
Technical Coordinator

Nicole D'Arcangelo
Volunteer Coordinator

Alina Joseph
Hospitality Coordinator

Muna Abdulkader
Social Media Coordinator

Constance Blackwell
Theater Coordinator

Sheron Newhouse
Box Office Coordinator

Juliet Burch
Short Films Programmer

Eli Prysant
Short Films Associate Programmer

Aimee Bosse
Rita Biuwovwi-Nash
Andrew Davis
Dakota Jones
Stephen Kharfen
Jill Larvo
Donné Malloy-Murray
William McLeod
Matthew Ramsey
Theater Managers

Kendra Rubinfeld
Travis Hare
KRPR

Xinya He
Shea Neary
Zoella O'Haren
George Togman
Festival Assistants

Programmers

Tony Gittens
Festival Director

Shirin Ghareeb
Deputy Festival Director

Linda Blackaby
Senior Programmer

Programming Advisors

Manjula Kumar
President/Executive Director, Global Performing Arts

Cornelius Moore
California Newsreel Programming Consultant

Festival Catalog

Judy Bloch
Dave Nuttycombe
Film Note Writers

Jill Tunick
Editor

Wendy Henderson
Graphic Design

Alexis Thornlow
Catalog Cover Design

Festival Website

Tuan Tran
Developer/Designer

Filmfest DC Trailer

Khubab Hassan
Paul Lee
Aidan Xavier Moriarty
Film and Video Studies George Mason University

Special Thanks To

Angie M. Gates
President & CEO | Events DC

Herbert Niles
Office of Cable Television, Film, Music & Entertainment

Denis Quenelle
Embassy of France

Elettra La Duca
Michele Giacalone
Embassy of Italy, Italian Cultural Institute

Emily Buss
Embassy of Switzerland

Miguel Albero
Juan Luis Cejudo Fuentes
Embassy of Spain

Jonathan Steffert
Sarai Matagi
Embassy of New Zealand

Sebastian Di Luca
Maaritza Gueler
Embassy of Argentina

Steve Moore
SWBID

Gerry Widdicombe
Downtown Bid

Amanda Kraus
Assistant Professor of Sound and Editing George Mason University