FESTIVAL TEAM
Monica Varner | Executive Director
Ferdian Jap | Development Director
Nancy Collet | Programming Consultant
Hilda Sommariba | National PR
Cathy Cromar | Volunteer Coordinator
Chelsea Cromar | Volunteer Coordinator
Mitch Ritter | Operations Coordinator
Anne Fox | Guest Services & Film Traffic Manager
Michelle Canas | Marketing & PR Coordinator
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Joseph Alexander, President | AREA Real Estatce, LLC & Leiser Skaff Alexander, PLLC
Rachel Feinman, Immediate Past President | Florida Israel Business Accelerator
Tammy Briant, President Elect | Stetson Law
Roia Barrios, Vice President
Michael Cichon, Treasurer | BBT
Timothy Zehnder, Secretary | Hill Ward Henderson, LLP
Jonathan Ellis | Shumaker, Loop, Kendrick, P.A.
Steven Rybicki | Seminole Electric Cooperative
Kevin Ambler | Law Office of Kevin Ambler, P.A.
Robert A. Stines | Freeborn & Peters, LLP
Sheri Eaton | Suncoast Credit Union
Tyler Martinolich | Film Tampa Bay
Caroline Dues | Pro-Link Staffing
Sara Scher | Tampa Bay Jewish International Film Festival
ADVISORY BOARD
Jason Ambler | Film Director
Armand Assante | SAG/AFTRA Actor
Leslie Cohen | HBO
Paul Cohen | FSU Film/Torchlight
Randall Emmett | Emmett/Furla Productions
Tom Garrett | Circa Films
Tom Gordin | Tagwear Commissioner
Ken Hagan | Hillsborough County
Miray Holmes | City of Tampa Dr.
Patrizia LaTrecchia, Ph.D., University of South Florida
*Charles (Chad) Moore | Morgan and Morgan, PA
*Eric Odum | ROI Commercial Property Brokerage
Ryan O'Nan | SAG/AFTRA Actor
Aakash Patel | Elevate, Inc.
*Eric Polins | HCP & Associates, Inc.
*Joseph J. Restaino | Film Producer
Robert W Sterrett III | Filmmaker
Michael Stewart | 717 South & AVA
Ted Warren | America Media Group
Bryan Glazer | Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Phillip Sipiora | USF Professor
Cinda Snow | Snow Entertainment
Dori Sperko | Film Producer
Honorable Bob Martinez | Former Governer of FL
Honorable Dick Greco | Former Mayor of City of Tampa *
Elizabeth Fendrick | SAG/AFTRA Actor
Gregory Firestone
Phara Mclachlan
* Denotes Past President