FESTIVAL TEAM
Monica Varner | Executive Director
Anne Fox | Shorts Programmer, Film Traffic & Talent Relations Manager
Mitch Ritter | Operations Manager
Michelle Canas | Marketing & PR Coordinator
Shelby Barrs | Logistics
Holly Clifford | Local PR & Media Relations
Justine D'Addio | Local PR & Media Relations
Al Fredrick | Latin Media Relations
Cathy Cromar | Volunteer Manager
Chelsea Cromar | Volunteer Manager
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Tammy Briant Spratling, President | Community Tampa Bay
Joseph Alexander, Immediate Past President | AREA Real Estatce, LLC & Lieser Skaff Alexander, PLLC
Timothy Zehnder, President Elect | Hill Ward Henderson, LLP
Roia Barrios, Vice President | Beuge Barrios, PA
Steven Rybicki | Seminole Electric Cooperative, Inc.
Michael Cichon, Treasurer | BB&T Scott & Stringfellow
Robert A. Stines | Freeborn & Peters, LLP
Jonathan Ellis | Shumaker, Loop, Kendrick, P.A.
Kevin Ambler | Ambler Law Group
Tyler Martinolich | Film Tampa Bay
Santosh Govindaraju | Convergent Capital Partners
Caroline Dues | Pro-Link Staffing
Sanjay Malhotra | Suncoast Credit Union
Robert Malloy | Pinstripe Productions
ADVISORY BOARD
Sara Scher | Tampa Bay Jewish International Film Festival
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 Inc
Comissioner Ken Hagan | Hillsborough County
Miray Holmes | City of Tampa
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 Rath | Film Producer
Rob Malloy | Pinstripe Productions
Honorable Bob Martinez | Former Governer of FL
Honorable Dick Greco | Former Mayor of City of Tampa
*Elizabeth Fendrick | SAG/AFTRA Actor
Gregory Firestone | My Florida Mediator
Phara Mclachlan | Nahteava
Evan Smith | Evan Smith Creative
Frank Robertson | Frank Robertson Media
Francis Vayalumkal | India International Film Festival
* Denotes Past President