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Sarah Winshall
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Joshua Adam Fu
James Chapa
Allison Bunce
Emily Schkolnick
Ryan Knowles
Taylor Rowley
Connor McIlveen

Advisory Board

Alex Mechanik
Ash Hoyle
Athina Rachel Tsangari
Courtney Muller
Eric Allen Hatch
Hedi El Kholti
James Belfer
Jon Dieringer
Kiva Reardon
Kyra Rogers
Michelle Carey
Miriam Bale
Riel Roch Decter
Samy Burch
Sandi Tan
Sean Baker

CONTACT

GENERAL
info@lafestivalofmovies.org

PRESS
LAFM@divergentpr.com

MEZZANINE BOARD

Adam Piron (Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma and Mohawk) is a Southern California-based filmmaker, writer, and curator. He is the Director of Sundance Institute’s Indigenous Program where he oversees the organization’s support for Indigenous filmmakers globally and a co-founder of COUSIN: a film collective dedicated to supporting Indigenous artists experimenting with and pushing the boundaries of the moving image. As a film programmer, he has served as a member of the Sundance Film Festival’s Short Film Programming Team since 2013 and was previously the Film Curator for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). His films have screened in the New York Film Festival, MoMA Doc Fortnight, International Film Festival Rotterdam, MOCA Los Angeles, True/False Film Festival, ESPN’s 30 for 30, and various other festivals and programs. His writing has appeared in The Criterion Collection’s Current, Cinema Scope Magazine, the Metrograph Journal, and CNN.

Dylan Redford is a filmmaker based in Los Angeles, CA. His projects have been screened at various festivals and institutions, including MoMA, Walker Art Center, Sundance Film Festival, Rotterdam, and TIFF.

Abby Sun (she/her) is the International Documentary Association’s director of artist programs and editor of Documentary, a quarterly print and digital magazine. Before joining IDA, Abby was curator of the DocYard and editor of Immerse, MIT Open Documentary Lab’s digital publication. She also has bylines in Film Comment, Filmmaker, Film Quarterly, Notebook, and Sight & Sound; served on festival juries for Hot Docs, Dokufest, Palm Springs, New Orleans, and CAAMfest, as well as nominating committees for the Gotham Awards and Cinema Eye; and received a fall 2022 Warhol Foundation Curatorial Research Fellowship. With Jordan Lord, she received a 2022 American Stories Documentary Fellowship for the upcoming The Voice of Democracy. Her hometown is Columbia, Missouri, US.

Maya S. Cade is the creator and curator of Black Film Archive – a first-of-its-kind digital archive likened to be the definitive history of Black cinema by Slate.com – and the inaugural Connecting Communities Digital Initiative scholar-in-residence at the Library of Congress.

Cade is the only person in history to win multiple esteemed special critic awards in the same season, receiving special distinctions by the New York Film Critics Circle, the National Society of Film Critics, and the Alliance of Women Film Journalists. Since Black Film Archive’s August 2021 launch, Cade’s achievement has been featured in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Hollywood Reporter, among countless other publications across the world.

In July 2023, Cade was listed on Fast Company’s annual Most Creative Person list. In March 2023, Cade was listed on Essence Magazine’s inaugural Young, Gifted, and Black list highlighting 10 Black art leaders under 30. The award-winning writer and curator is based in Los Angeles.

SPONSORS

MUBI is a global streaming service, production company and film distributor dedicated to elevating great cinema. MUBI creates, curates, acquires and champions visionary films, bringing them to audiences all over the world. It is a place to discover ambitious films by visionary filmmakers, from iconic directors to emerging auteurs, all carefully chosen by MUBI’s curators. With MUBI GO, members in select countries can get a free ticket every week to see the best new films in cinemas. And MUBI’s Notebook explores all sides of cinema culture — both in print and online. MUBI is available across 190 countries, with more than 165 million members around the world. For more information about subscriptions, visit www.mubi.com.

Founded in 2022 by Micah Gottlieb, Mezzanine is an organization building an audience for contemporary art cinema in Los Angeles, and providing a dynamic and inclusive space for great cinema to thrive. Ranging from revival screenings to new film premieres, Mezzanine’s programs are frequently done in collaboration with local artists, writers, curators and other luminaries from specific disciplines. Building on Los Angeles’ history of alternative cinema spaces, Mezzanine seeks to make hidden gems accessible and legible; provide a platform for vital emerging film artists; and develop a younger and more diverse audience for art cinema in the city. For more information about Mezzanine, visit mezzaninefilm.com.

MEMBERS

FOUNDING

Jack Pearkes
Kyra Rogers, Executive Producer
The Meledandri Family

TASTEMAKER

Maida Lynn

INNOVATOR

Mel & Annette Gottlieb
Ronald Guttman
Holly Stanton & Karl McDonald
Arnee R. & Walter A. Winshall

SUPPORTING

Rebecca Arzoian
Michael Friend
Will Holt
Toby Jones
Fruit Tree
Vivian Kerr
Evan Shaw

SUSTAINING

David Aftergood
Jenny & Aaron Aftergood
Steven Aftergood
Elana Eden
Akiva Gottlieb
Neal Kelley
Rachael Morrison
Courtney Muller
Elizabeth Pauker
Christopher Shields
Cooper Vacheron
Katherine Ziskin Levesque

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