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

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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

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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

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* Denotes Past President