Year Round Staff

Founder & Executive Director
Jacqui Lofaro

Artistic Director
Karen Arikian

Festival Coordinator
Jackie Leopold

Marketing
Claudia Pilato

Publicity
Arlene Hinkemeyer
RJ Millard

Digital Content
Andrea Baez Brand
Made by Sea

Festival Staff

Programmer
Ian Birnie

Technical Directors
Matt Hindra
Neil Creedon

Volunteer Coordinator
Robyn Obler

Hospitality
Jamie Coy Wallace

Advertising
Claudia Pilato

Photography
CB Grubb

Young Voices Director
Marla Schwenk

Q/A Hosts
Andrew Botsford
Roger Sherman

Balloting
Vicki Umans

Program
Anita Kusick, Design
Ellen Pearlman, Copy

House Manager
Daniel McKay

Video/Media
The Color Bar
WVVH

Screening committee

Jackie Leopold, Coordinator
Ann Chwatsky
Melissa Hammel
Deborah Kooperstein
Robert Kuisis
Lynn Leary
Patti Leber
Michael Morrison
Marilyn Nissenson
Leslie Siben
Jamie Coy Wallace

Volunteer Corps

Robyn Obler, Coordinator
Wanda Azmoodeh
Glorian Berk
Arline Blake
Ron Castillo
Stephanie Cerchiai
Louise Drillich
Mary Ann Eddy
Marlene Esposito
Christine Granitsch
Nicole Hadix
Nora Hajko
Melissa Hammel
Dawn Margolis
Joyce Raimondo
Michelle Severance
Chris Tice
Dianne Youngblood

OUR HOST
Andrew Botsford is a former visiting professor in the graduate arts programs at Stony Brook Southampton and was for 20 years the arts editor of the Southampton Press family of newspapers. A writer, editor,  actor and director, he is president of the Hampton Theatre Company in Quogue, where he has appeared in more than 45 productions since 1985. As the host of “Tuesday Night at the Movies with Andrew and Friends,” he offers commentary on independent and foreign films in the Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center's “Finest in World Cinema” summer series. In addition, he has reviewed movies and live theater for WPPB, 88.3 FM. Andrew has been a host for our festival for many years, responsible for lively interviews during many of the post-screening talk-back sessions.