Officers

Chair – Dalene Bradford – (DB Nonprofit Consulting, Principal)
President – Fred G. Andrews – Founder
Vice President – Jeph Scanlon – Festival Programming Coordinator – (Filmmaker, actor)
Treasurer – Donna M. Goeckler – (Hume Music, CFO)

Board of Directors

Joseph Gagnon – Development Committee – (Attorney, Shook Hardy Bacon)
Aaron Gnirk – Mzarketing Committee (Independent Filmmakers Coalition)
Dr. Dotty Hamilton – Crosscut Committee – (Avila University, Chair of Film Department)
Sean Holmes – Festival Programming Committee (KCPT)
Rossana Jeran – Hospitality Committee Chair (Filmmaker)
Karen McCarthy – Development Committee – (US Congresswoman Missouri 5th District (Ret.))
Stinson McClendon – Technology Committee – (Documentary filmmaker, Chair of KC Student Film Alliance)
Nita Norris – Creative Director – (Great Western Energy / KCP&L)
Dr. Tom Poe – UMKC, Chair, Communication Studies Dept.
Steve Simpson – Technology Committee – (Tivoli Cinemas)
Bobby Thompson – Festival Coordinator –  (photographer, filmmaker)

Staff / Committee Members

Erin Tate– Marketing Committee Chair 
Kathy Peterson - Volunteer Coordinator
Maria Antonia Andujar – Festival Programming Committee (Theater of Relativity) 
Monica Espinosa – Crosscut Committee Chair (EPA)
Sandy Woodson - Festival Programming Committee (KCTV)

KC Metro Advisory Board

Rich Ambler – Ambler Films / Renegade Pictures
Mitch Brian – Screenwriter, instructor UMKC
Susan Bernstein – KC Film Commission, Bernstein Rein Advertising,
Patrick Clancy – Kansas City Art Institute, Chair of Photography / New Media Department
Tim DePaepe – Filmmaker, KCTV5
Jerry Harrington – Tivoli Cinemas, owner
Peter Jasso - Director of Kansas Film Commission
Jerry Jones – Director of Missouri Film Commission
John Niernberger – Director, screenwriter, author
John O’Brien – Dolphin Gallery
John Sjoblom – Filmmaker & Screenwriter
Edward Stencel – Lonely Seal Releasing - LA
Kevin Willmott – Screenwriter / director / actor, KU professor

National Advisory Board

Andy Anderson – Screenwriter / director; University of Texas-Arlington
Elizabeth Avellan - Producer (Austin, TX)
Melanie Backer – Producer’s Rep, Producer (LA)
Tony Bifano – CineFilm Lab (Atlanta)
Dave Borthwick – Director / editor / animator, BolexBrothers (Bristol, England)
James McKee – Earwax / sound design (SF)
Steve Montal – Festival consultant (San Diego)
David Moore – Screenwriter / director (LA)
John Pierson – Creator of Split Screen, author, producers rep. (Austin, TX)
Esther Robinson – Producer / director (NY)
Neil Seiling – Producer, AliveTV - programs for Tele-Global (Washington DC)
Patrice Snead – Program Director, Las Vegas Arts Commission (LasVegas, NV)
Tara Veneruso – Screenwriter / director / editor; Flaming Angel films (LA)
Lois Vossen – Producer. Independent Lens, ITVS (SF)
Hammad Zaidi – Producer / director, Lonely Seal Pictures (LA)