Staff + Board

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Larry Beasley, Angèle Beausoleil, Lynda Brown-Ganzert, Rudy Buttignol, Colin Browne, Kevin Campbell, Scott Dunlop, Michael Francis (Chair Emeritus), Thomas Fung, Prem Gill, Dave Hewitt (Chair), J. Joly, Jae J. Kim, Mara Sinclair, Terry Whitehead

Festival Founder: Leonard Schein

PROGRAMMING
Alan Franey, Festival Director
PoChu AuYeung, Program Manager & Senior Programmer
Mark Peranson, Programming Associate
Terry McEvoy, Canadian Images Programmer
Stephanie Damgaard, Canadian Images Associate Programmer
Shelly Kraicer, Dragons & Tigers Programmer
Tony Rayns, Dragons & Tigers Programmer
Tom Charity, Vancity Theatre Program Coordinator
Sandy Gow, International Shorts Programmer
Tammy Bannister, Programming Assistant

Programming Consultants
Chris Adkins, Tammy Bannister, Kellie Ann Benz, Pavol Hell, Robert & Gretchen Ingram, Alissa Simon, Jack Vermee, Curtis Woloschuk

International Screening Committee
Adam Cook, Venay Felton, Michael Ghent, Ben Milne, Giancarlo Moro, Paulo O’Connor, Anil Patadé, Kaen Séguin, Mara & Iain Sinclair, Paul Williams, Kathryn Wood

Canadian Images Screening Committee
Jurgen Beerwald, Michelle Bjornson, Nicole Brazeau, Susan Buie, Andrée Faucher, Brie Koniczek, Ray Lai, Katrina Orlowski, Janos Sitar

HOSPITALITY
Gala Producer
Barbara Chirinos

Production Coordinators
Tanya Cromwell, Katrina Therriault

Guest Travel Coordinators
Suzanne Guerino, Steve Martindale

Hospitality Suite Manager
Eunhee Cha Brown

Hospitality Suite Assistant Manager
Tallulah

Foreign Guest Coordinator
Theresa Ho

Hospitality Food and Beverage Coordinator
Lillooet Fox

Hospitality Transportation Coordinator
Miles McNamara

FILM HANDLING
Print Traffic Coordinators
Kathy Evans, Paul Williams

Print Transport
Carl Chinn, Joseph Onodi

ADMINISTRATION
Festival Director & CEO
Alan Franey

Executive Director
Jacqueline Dupuis

Director, Development and Communication
Trish McGrath

Program Manager
PoChu AuYeung

Facility Manager
Barbara Chirinos

Sponsorship and Development Coordinator
Lisa Rasmussen

Accounts Manager
Mickey Brazeau

Bookkeeper
Mark Halpin

Office Manager
Kaen Séguin

Office Assistants
Sophie Jarvis, Erika Kenning

Volunteer Coordinator
Sue Cormier

IT: ITS Consulting
Christina Bombelli, Jason Cramer, Jason Davies

Sponsorship & Development Assistant
Angela Walsh

Festival Interns
Siobhan Condon, Putri Daradasin, Benny Etienne, Gabrielle Giroud, Brittany Ji, Annalise Kuester, Susanna Laughlin, Andrea Leask, Amal Mahmoud, Milena Salazar, Christina Seog, Dannie Zhao

MARKETING + PUBLICITY
Marketing Director
Lainé Slater

Web & IT Manager
Peter Hebert

Marketing Coordinator
Smita Acharyya

Media Director
Ellie O’Day

Publicist: Nonfiction Features
Helen Yagi

Publicist: Canadian Images
Gloria Davies

Publicist: Dragons & Tigers
Andrew Poon

Media Office Coordinator
Justin Mah

Media Assistant
Fionn Yaxley

Distribution & Signage Coordinator
Sue Cormier

PUBLICATIONS
Editor
Jack Vermee

Associate Editor
Curtis Woloschuk

Publications Coordinator
Lawrence Boxall

DTP Coordinator
Salena Keath

VIFF Contributing Writers
Mike Archibald, Peter Culley, Stephanie Damgaard,  Alan Franey , Robert Ingram, Shelly Kraicer, Dominique Leclair, Matthew Mallon, Terry McEvoy, Mark Peranson, Tony Rayns, Alissa Simon, Jack Vermee, Curtis Woloschuk

Program Ad Sales
cleversmedia

BOX OFFICE
Box Office Ticketing System
AudienceView Ticketing

Box Office Coordinator
Lora Haber

Box Office Assistant Coordinator
Drew Osborne

Box Office Staff
Mike Archibald, Jeff Flieler, Heather Baker, Carolyn Yu, Jason Barker, Brent Coate, Christopher Sun, Janet Glassford, Mandy Scanga, Kate Lasiuk, Yogi Omar, Elizabeth Glancy, Mike Zepf, Denice Jagic, Gisele da Silva, Lyndsay Pomerantz, Amanda Thomson, Michael Battley, Jonah McGarva, Curtis MacPhail, Robbie Vergara, Kelvin Chan, Melanie Le Phan, Shane Omar, Danielle Benzon, Travis Deglow, Karen Seraphim, Leila Toledo, Julia Patey, Sabrina Zaverganietz, Clinton Froehlich, Rebekah Grayston

THEATRES
Exhibitions Manager
Teresa Weir

Exhibitions Assistant
Martin Williams

Venue Managers
Robert Albanese, J Bradford, Stephanie Brogden, Michael Challenor, Nadiya Chettiar, Elvy Del Bianco, Noushin Farnoud, Brie Koniczek, Nancy Kurek, Pierre Lefebvre (Concierge & Guest Relations), Pat Leong, Iulia Manolescu (Volunteer Coordinator), Kelly McLeod, Jennifer Tennant, Rodney Stewart, Wayne Stewart, Sean Wilson

Technical Director
Matt Kunau

Video Coordinator
Sandy Gow

Film and Video Inspection
John Fewster, Sandy Gow, Sumit Guha, Sandi Kilby, Matt Kunau , Ingrid Lae

VIFC Projection Crew
Sumit Guha, Sandi Kilby, Matt Kunau, Ingrid Lae, John Winslow

Vogue Theatre Projection Crew
Dan Gressel, Dave Jones, Matt Kunau

Granville 7 Film Projection Crew
Douglas Biggerstaff, Dan Gressel, Dave Jones, Simon Lam, Douglas Strick

Granville 7 Video Projection Crew
Jurgen Beerwald , Sandy Gow, Sumit Guha, Ali Jones, Matt Kunau, John Langdon, Darel MacDonnell, Orlando Ruiz , Gary Stamford,  Garth Wiens

Technical Consultant
Charlie Greenough

THE FILM & TV FORUM
Forum Producer
Frances Bergin

Forum Creative Director
Kellie Ann Benz

Forum Coordinator & Marketing Manager
Katrina Orlowski

Forum Publicist
Rory Richards

Project Manager
Jennifer Ko

Thanks especially to our 750 volunteers!