Staff

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Business

The Business Department is responsible for raising the financing that enables the Festival to operate each spring. Our funds are obtained through grants, corporate sponsorships, individual contributions and support from Brown. If you are interested in partnering with the Festival, please email us at business@ivyfilmfestival.com.

Contact
business@ivyfilmfestival.com

Coordinators
Blake Beaver
Keith Thomas

Staff
Elizabeth Woodward
Chris Gonzalez
Ekaterina "Kate" Shaleva
Jaclyn Licht
Mariska Raglow-Defranco
Richelle Zheng
Supreeti Sharma

General Coordinators

The general coordinators are responsible for leading the Ivy Film Festival and organizing the various departments at a high level. General questions and questions about submissions may be directed to director@ivyfilmfestival.com, while technical questions may be directed to webmaster@ivyfilmfestival.com. Please refer to the other sub-pages for information regarding the other departments of IFF.

Contact
director@ivyfilmfestival.com
webmaster@ivyfilmfestival.com

Executive Directors
Evan Sumortin
Mahima Chawla

Associate Director
Jacob Gindi
Claudine Fernandez

Secretary
Rebecca Specking

Treasurer
Matthew LaForgia

Events Coordinator
Jose Clair

Special Projects Hannah Levy

Webmaster
Cody Mello

Graphic Design

The graphic design department is responsible for designing the face of the festival - everything from the submissions posters to the tickets for the festival itself.

Contact
graphics@ivyfilmfestival.com

Coordinators
Angela Estevez
John Connuck

Staff
Lena Parker-Duncan
Elizabeth Goodspeed
Layla Ehsan

Industry

The industry staff contacts agents, managers, and members of the industry throughout the year to bring screenings and panels to campus both during the festival and in the months leading up to it.

Contact
industry@ivyfilmfestival.com

Coordinator
Kathryn Glickman
Nathan Walker
Emily Spinner

Staff
Maggie Hire

Programming

The programming department screens and judges the 300+ submissions we receive each year and puts together a list of winners for the actual festival. The staff is also responsible for organizing the 48 Hour Film Festival in the fall, where we issue a prompt to filmmakers who have previously signed up and then screen the submissions we receive two days later. During the festival itself, the staff will organize housing for and welcome to campus visiting filmmakers. Looking for a staff of 20.

Contact
programming@ivyfilmfestival.com

Coordinators
Natalia Maymi
Katherine Butera

Staff
Daniel Fethke
Laura Katz
William Underwood
Christopher Thompson
Eric Heimark
Joanna Jacobs
William Davis
Alon Sacks
Avery Nackman
Jennifer Saper
Angus Ning
Jade Donaldson
Polina Godz
Yasmina Price
Martin Carlsen
Molly Bernstein
Jonathan Cogut
Paul Lebot
Maahika Srinivasan
Rachel Stern
Denise Van Der Goot
Hyojin Kim
Nicole Salvador
Maia Chao
Bianca Lavelle
Simon Hunegs

Publicity

The Publicity team coordinates the festival’s publicity, both in the form of soliciting film and screenplay submissions and in terms of promoting the actual festival. This includes publicizing the festival on campus and to local, national and international markets, contacting and maintaining relationships with the film departments of colleges and universities, and developing new ways of promoting and executing the film festival in order to reach new audiences. We also work with the Graphic Design team to create a cohesive image for the festival.

Contact
publicity@ivyfilmfestival.com

Coordinators
Erica James
Eunice Cho
Tarek Shoukri

Staff
Ben Vila
Lya Lim
Maya Sorabjee
Maria Castillo
Mo Hy
Molly Landis
Nina Roesner
Tiara Johnson
Rachel Rosenfeld
Yogi Kim
Zhou Zhang

Screenplay Competition

The 12th annual IFF Screenplay Competition will judge both short and long form student written screenplays in separate competitions. A panel of qualified student judges will read each submission and select four semi-finalist screenplays according to an established set of guidelines. These criteria include concept, character development, dialogue, and story. Once selected, the finalist submissions will be sent to industry professionals (agents, producers, creative executives, writers, directors) who will choose the final winning screenplay, to be announced during the festival in April. The winners for each category will receive prizes and a reading of their work during the festival. Submissions will be accepted from September through February.

This year's categories are:

Undergraduate Feature Screenplay
Graduate Feature Screenplay
Short Screenplay

Contact
screenplay@ivyfilmfestival.com

Coordinators
Rachel Borders
Samuel Torres

Staff
Caleb Williams
Natasha Fay
Alice Preminger
Broghan Zwack
Leah Michaels
Alex Rapport
Meher Ali
Jenn Maley
John "Keillor" Irving
Tonya Riley
Gabriela Corvese
Olutoye Adegboro
Jessica Steans-Gail
Maru Pabon

Technical

The Technical department takes care of all technical aspects of the film festival, including the projection of student and feature films, sound set-up for panel discussions, and the behind-the-scenes work of the awards ceremony. This year, we plan to put together promotional videos for the festival, including website videos and/or trailers for the festival’s selection to be screened at the Awards Ceremony. We also intend to work with the Programming Staff to organize and archive past films and screenplays. This spring semester, we'll correspond with filmmakers to arrange the formatting of their films, compile accepted student films onto screener DVDs, and facilitate screenings and events to address any technical difficulties.

Contact
technical@ivyfilmfestival.com

Coordinator
Luke Perez

Staff
Kaitlyn Rothamer
Tian-Mei Lee