Craig Dorfman, Co-President
Frontline Mgmt

Leslie Belzberg, Co-President
Producer

Jon Larson, Vice President
Directors Guild of America

Nicholas Caprio, Treasurer
Gay Rosenthal Productions, Inc

Larry Grimaldi, Secretary
Producer

Jonathon Aubry
Here Media, Inc.

Tammara Billik
Casting Director

Alan Friel
Wildman, Harrold, Allen & Dixon LLP

Jonathan Howard
Innovative Artists

Tim Hughes
Hughes Accounting Services

Andrea James
Deep Stealth Productions

Ari Karpel
Journalist

Joe Keenan
New Avenue Marketing

Thomas Lavin
Thomas Lavin Showroom

Scotch Ellis Loring
Entertainer

Barry McPherson
APA Talent & Literary

Tamika Miller
Producer/Director

Jason Murakawa
Small Masterpiece Events

Jerry Schmitz
Grace PR

Heather Schuster
Morocco Junction Entertainment

Michael Sluchan
USA Network

Cherie Y. Song
Esq., McGuireWoods LLP

Kirsten Schaffer
Executive Director

Susan Linn Ferris
Senior Director, Internal Affairs

Kerri Stoughton-Jackson
Senior Director, External Affairs

ADMINISTRATION
Alice Royer
Online Communications Associate

Shari Greicar
Office Manager

Kip Hargrove
Assistant to Mr. Martinez and Ms. Royer

Phil Weil
Accountant

BOX OFFICE
Susan Garbett
Box Office Manager & Office Manager

Customer Service Representatives
Hiyam Abousaid
Clayton Farris
Bitten Heine
Paul Pescador
Stacy Wood

DEVELOPMENT & INDIVIDUAL GIVING
Kevin Connell
Director of Strategic Partnerships & Corporate Relations

Abel Martinez
Membership Coordinator

Andreen Soley
Development Assistant

GRAPHIC DESIGN
Propaganda, Inc
Print & Website Production Design

Barbara Gottlieb
Print Production Design

Shannon Bellanca
Outfest 2010 Key Art Design

Salt (Drew Bourneuf, Paul Andraos, Cari Chadwick)
Festival Trailer

PROGRAMMING
Kimberly Yutani
Director of Programming

Kristin Pepe
Legacy Project Manager

Bryan Stamp
Programmer

Dilcia Barrera
Programming Coordinator

Casey De La Rosa
Hospitality Coordinator

Jon Korn
Shorts Programmer

Alonso Duralde
Feature Film Consultant

Kyle Stephan
Platinum Programmer

Brad Wergley
Hospitality Assistant

John Guevara
Trafficking Assistant

OPERATIONS
K.J. Mohr
Festival Manager

Miki Murata
Production Manager

Nicole Suell
Volunteer Coordinator

Ed Settle
Production Assistant

Ian Forester
Assistant Production Coordinator

PUBLIC RELATIONS
mPRm Public Relations

Access LA
Dino Hainline
Philip Pierce

Assistant Programmers
Dilcia Barrera
Kalil Cohen
Cullen Conly
Jennifer Jordan Day
Kip Hargrove
CJ Jackson
Lauri King
Tom King
Debra Miller
Pat Mills
Istvan Molnar-Szakacs
Loretta Newman
Emma Phelan
Benjamin Rodriguez
Mike Roth
Alice Royer
Debra Simone
Win-Sie Tow
Dyana Winkler

Audience Award Tabulation
Robert W. Bailey

Capsules Writers
Dilcia Barrera
Kalil Cohen
Cullen Conly
Casey De La Rosa
Alonso Duralde
Jon Korn
Kristin Pepe
Emma Phelan
Alice Royer
Kirsten Schaffer
Debra Simone
Bryan Stamp
Kyle Stephan
Win-Sie Tow
Dyana Winkler
Kim Yutani

Copy Editor
Brad Converse

Documentation Team
David M. Gil
Angela Brinskele
Albert Domasin
Cassie Duray-Bito
Alejandra Espasande
Mike Haboush
Clarke Henry
Azaan Kamau
Danna Kinsky
Steven Lam
Sean Lambert
Michael Lucid
Jake Alex Pasko
Marco Ruiz
Marco Ruiz Jr.
Wilki W.K. Tom

Family Fun Coordinator
Shaun Klaseus

Gift Bag Coordinator
Liz VanderVen

Office Assistant
Tom King

Screenwriting Lab Coordinator
Rubin Rodriguez

Silent Auction Committee
Tamika Miller, Co-Chair
Cherie Song, Co-Chair
Jennifer Jordan Day
Moses Freyre
Andrea Krauss
Michael Krulik
Erick Long
Orly Ravid
Emilie Ruddell
Samantha Sprecher

Special Events Team
Rose Eustachio, Chair
John Alvez
Nelson Better
Ray Chatters
Swaga Deb
Angela Disalvo
G Domingo
Tera Green
Keri Kameoka

Theatre Managers
Daniel Blatt
Lorenzo Diaz
Scott Durr
Jillian Fisher
Mauricio Gomez
Shawn Goodspeed
Shaun Klaseus
Jack Marquez
Thom Mosley
Donna Mupas
Tom Nagle
Michael O’Hara
Jefferson Vickers
Dvoshe Walkowiak

Assistant Theatre Manager
Regina Lark
Bobby Watson

US DRAMATIC FEATURES JURY

KERRY BARDEN

Kerry Barden has been casting films and television for 18 years.  He is proud to have been a part of films that have played at Outfest over the years beginning with STONEWALL directed by Nigel Finch and with last year's DARE directed by Adam Salky.  He has cast over 200 films, television shows and plays and has offices in both New York and Los Angeles.  Some of his film credits include BOYS DON'T CRY, GOOD WILL HUNTING, SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE,  AMERICAN PSYCHO, I SHOT ANDY WARHOL, and the upcoming BETTY ANN WATERS, WINTER'S BONE, WHAT'S WRONG WITH VIRGINIA, EVERY DAY, WIN WIN.  He is currently casting THE HELP with director Tate Taylor,  MACHINE GUN PREACHER with Marc Forster, CONAN with Marcus Nispel and THE FIELDS with Ami Mann.  He was nominated for Emmy Awards for "Sex and the City" and "The Bronx Is Burning." He is excited to be a part of Outfest again this year.

TINA MABRY

Tina graduated from the University of Southern California, School of Cinema-Television, with an MFA in Film Production in 2005. While at USC, she completed her thesis film, BROOKLYN'S BRIDGE TO JORDAN, which aired on Showtime, BET J and LOGO, and later went on to co-write the feature screenplay ITTY BITTY TITTY COMMITTEE. Tina made her feature directorial debut with MISSISSIPPI DAMNED, which has garnered an impressive eleven awards including the Outfest 2009 Grand Jury Award for Outstanding US Dramatic Feature. In addition to being named among the 25 New Faces of Independent Film in Filmmaker Magazine and receiving recognition from Out Magazine, Tina was recently featured in the Advocate magazine as part of their Top Forty Under 40 issue.

KIRSTEN VANGSNESS

Kirsten Vangsness is best known as the be-bespectacled brainiac Penelope Garcia on the CBS drama, "Criminal Minds" as well as the recently released films SCREAM OF THE BIKINI, CHICAGO 8 and IN MY SLEEP. Most recently seen on stage in the critically acclaimed noir spoof Kill Me, Deadly, Vangsness'  work has garnered the Los Angeles Drama Critics Award for Best Emerging Comic Actress, 15 Min of Fem Best Actress Award, and a Best Actress Garland Award. As a writer, her plays and performance art pieces have been seen throughout Los Angeles and at Hollywood's Theatre of NOTE, the theatre company of which she is a member.

INTERNATIONAL FEATURES JURY

QUENTIN LEE

Quentin Lee began making films as an experimental video maker and his early shorts screened in film festivals both domestically and internationally. His first feature SHOPPING FOR FANGS, which he co-directed with Justin Lin, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 1997. Since then he has made several feature films and documentaries, including DRIFT, ETHAN MAO, 0506HK, and most recently THE PEOPLE I'VE SLEPT WITH.

SHEETAL SHETH

Sheetal Sheth burst onto the scene with raves in her debut film role, playing the lead in ABCD - a risky and memorable role as a promiscuous young girl struggling with the ties of family and tradition. She has since starred in several feature films including WINGS OF HOPE, AMERICAN CHAI, DANCING WITH TWILIGHT and LOOKING FOR COMEDY IN THE MUSLIM WORLD, opposite Albert Brook. Sheetal recently starred in I CAN'T THINK STRAIGHT and THE WORLD UNSEEN, based on the novel dealing with the 50s apartheid South Africa, which premiered at The Toronto International Film Festival and went on to win 11 SAFTA's and many international awards including 3 Best Actress awards for Sheetal at several film festivals. Her latest film STALEMATE wrapped this February where she stars with Josh Randall and Burgess Jenkins.

JASON ST-LAURENT

Jason St-Laurent is the Director of Programming at Inside Out Toronto LGBT Film and Video Festival. Following his studies at the University of Toronto, he curated more than 75 projects in Canada and internationally, including Scatalogue: 30 Years of Crap in Contemporary Art, Videogram International Media Art Exchange (Canada, Finland and Estonia) and Voice in Transit at the Central Station in Cape Town, South Africa. He is the founder of Electric Fields: Electronic Music and Media Forum in Ottawa. As an artist, he has exhibited his performance and photography work in Canada, United States, South Africa, Romania, Denmark and Finland.

DOCUMENTARY FEATURES JURY

PJ RAVAL

Named one of Filmmaker Magazine's "25 new faces of independent film 2006," PJ discovered film and video after working with photography and media installation art. His film TRINIDAD (co-directed by Jay Hodges) is a feature documentary that uncovers Trinidad, Colorado, the "sex change capital of the world." Currently, PJ is developing a feature documentary about LGBTQ retirement communities as well as collaborating on a collection of work with performer and "drag terrorist" Paul Soileau (a.k.a. CHRISTEENE). PJ is also an award-winning cinematographer whose work includes the 2009 Academy Award nominated and 2008 Sundance Film Festival Documentary Grand Jury Award Winner TROUBLE THE WATER. PJ is currently shooting FOURPLAY by director Kyle Henry, produced by Jason Wehling and executive produced by Michael Stipe and Jim McKay.

COURTNEY SEXTON

Courtney Sexton is Director of Documentary Production at Participant Media. She has been involved with such projects as THE WORLD ACCORDING TO SESAME STREET, the Academy Award(r)-winning AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH, ANGELS IN THE DUST, JIMMY CARTER MAN FROM PLAINS, DARFUR NOW, CHICAGO 10, STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE, PRESSURE COOKER, FOOD, INC., AND THE UPCOMING RELEASES CLIMATE OF CHANGE, CASINO JACK AND THE UNITED STATES OF MONEY, CANE TOADS: THE CONQUEST and WAITING FOR SUPERMAN. Before joining Participant, she worked for two years with AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH director Davis Guggenheim on the HBO series "Deadwood," as well as several TV pilots. Prior to that, she worked extensively in television and feature film production, beginning with the FX series "The Shield."

KIMBERLY REED

Kimberly Reed is a filmmaker living in New York City. She was named one of Filmmaker Magazine's 25 New Faces of Independent Film, and one of The Advocate Magazine's Five to Watch directors. Reed has been awarded Fellowships at the Yaddo Artists' Community and the Squaw Valley Community of Writers Workshop. She directed/produced PRODIGAL SONS, which SF Weekly calls a "whiplash doc that heralds an exciting talent." PRODIGAL SONS, a co-production with BBC Storyville, Sundance Channel, and CBC/Canada, premiered at the prestigious Telluride Film Festival with a record seven screenings. The film has gone on to be shown around the world in theaters, festivals, and on television, garnering more than a dozen Jury and Audience awards, including the FIPRESCI prize. Reed is a summa cum laude graduate of UC Berkeley and a Montana native.

SHORT FILM JURY

BRET BERG

Bret Berg is the co-programmer and calendar editor of The Cinefamily, Los Angeles' newest non-profit cinematheque (located at the historic Silent Movie Theatre).  After having slaved away in the independent video store salt mines for over a decade, he brings to the Cinefamily his unique, skewed view on the history of moving pictures, honed from a lifetime of obsessive movie munching.  In addition to being a film programmer, Bret recently ended a ten-year on-air stint at college radio station KXLU 88.9fm Los Angeles, has played in a variety of gloriously loud bands, and makes the gooiest over-the-top mac 'n cheese casserole west of the Rockies (none of that Kraft stuff; the real deal!)

NICK OCEANO

Nick Oceano is a Los Angeles based filmmaker originally from San Antonio, Texas. He received his BA in Creative Writing from the University of Southern California and will earn his MFA from the film program at the USC School of Cinematic Arts in 2010. Nick has directed several award winning short films, most notably EL PRIMO (THE COUSIN). His feature directorial debut, PEDRO, a biopic written by Academy-award winning writer Dustin Lance Black, about the life of AIDS activist Pedro Zamora, has played around the world, including the Toronto International Film Festival and the Berlin Film Festival. The film was nominated for the 2009 Humanitas Prize, a 2010 WGA Award, and a 2010 GLAAD Award. He is currently in development on several projects, including THE COUSIN, an indie road picture set in his native Texas.

MAGALI SIMARD

Magali Simard is a short film programmer for the Toronto International Film Festival(r) and coordinator of Canadian programming at TIFF. She has been with TIFF since 2006 where she works on initiatives such as programming for TIFF Cinematheque, Canadian films at the Toronto International Film Festival(r), Canada's Top Ten, and the Student Film Showcase. She also participated in the production of film notes for the recent TIFF publication, Toronto on Film, has hosted panel discussions for Ryerson University and written for various Toronto online publications. Prior to working at TIFF, she completed the Cinema Studies undergraduate program at the University of Toronto, and while studying film for two years in Quebec, she managed youth in a Documentary Film Committee and Radio Broadcasting in Ottawa.