FESTIVAL STAFF
Monica Varner - Executive Director / Director of Events
Kyle Gilliland - Events Manager
Athena Montague - Volunteer Coordinator
Rose O’Toole - Film Traffic Coordinator
Angela Soiferman - Guest Services Manager
Shana Wheelwright - Technical Director

BOARD OF DIRECTORS & OFFICERS
Joe Restaino, President – Merrill Lynch
Rachel Marks Feinman, Vice-President – Hill Ward Henderson
Jonathan J. Ellis, Vice-President – Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick
David Soiferman, Treasurer – Financial Advisor
Elizabeth Fendrick, Secretary – Actor
Kevin C. Ambler – PA
Lou Conti – Holland & Knight
Ferdian Jap – Bucknell-Petrilak & Associates
Erik Lunseth – JP Morgan Chase
Alex Petrilak – Marketing Management Systems

ADVISORY BOARD
Armand Assante - Actor
Bob Devin Jones - Studio620
Bob Ross - Film Critic
Cathy Laughlin, C.S.A. - Casting Director
* Chad T. Moore – Morgan & Morgan
* Eric Odum - Net Advisory Group
* Eric Polins - HCP & Associates
Graham Winick - Film Florida
Jason Ambler - Digital Domain, LLC
Ken Hagan - Hillsborough County Commission
Leonel Limonte, M.D.
Leslie Cohen - HBO
Linda Saul-Sena
Lindsey Norris Guthrie - Tampa Digital Studios, Film Florida
Lynn Roer - Ogilvy & Mather
Miray Holmes - Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Patrizia LaTrecchia, Ph.D. - University of South Florida
Paul Cohen - FSU Film, Torchlight
Rob Sterrett - New Standard Films
Ron Satlof - Producer
Scott Jacobsen - Northstar Bank
Ted Warren - America Media Group
Tom Garrett - University of Tampa
Tom Gordon - Tag Wear

(*Past President of Board of Directors)