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By Filmmakers, For Filmmakers. Nowhere is our guiding principle more evident than in programming at Slamdance. Each year, we invite the newest class of Slamdance alumni to join us in the effort to discover and support the most exciting new voices in filmmaking, and to have a hand in shaping the future of film.

As Slamdance programmers, we’re all filmmakers and we’re all volunteers. Almost all of us have screened films at Slamdance. Every film submitted is watched in its entirety by at least two different programmers and there are over 200 programmers watching submissions from wherever in the world we are. Every programmer has an equal voice in the debate whether it’s our first or 25th year programming at Slamdance. After every film is watched and scored at least twice, our programming teams meet in person and spend a few weekends in late October and November re-watching, debating and duking it out, until our Festival Lineup finally emerges from the rubble of our battles.

Here are the programmers who made Slamdance 2022 possible.

Slamdance Headquarters Team

Alison Galarza Graphic Artist

Beth Prouty Consultant, Press and Media Liason

Brogan Luke Bouwhuis Social Media Manager

Cayden Turnbow Festival Intern

Chet Ellis Festival Intern

Chris and Pat McFaul Submissions Tech Gurus

Dekker Dreyer Marketing Consultant

Joanne Butcher Consultant, Unstoppable Co-founder

Kyra Rogers Grants Manager

Lily Yasuda Festival Manager

Michael Christopher Morin Festival Producer

Paul Sbrizzi Graphic Artist

Peter Baxter President and Co-founder

Skylar Phillips Marketing & Festival Coordinator

Steven Amhrein Web Developer

Taylor Miller Miami + Unstoppable Manager

Slamdance 2022 Artists

Jamie Wolfe Festival Key Artist

Slamdance Group Directors and Officers

Taylor Miller Secretary

Ken Coelho Treasurer

Paul Rachman Director

Peter Baxter Director

Sandy Lighterman Director

Slamdance 2022 Programmers

Narrative Features

Programmers

Rubert Baynham

Nadia Bedzhanova

Annika Birgel

Harry Cherniak

Chelsea Christer

Sarah Diamond

Raphael Dubois

Natacha Feola-Quintanilla

Theo Georgescu

Carl Lucas*

Josh Mandel

Andrew Morrison

Carlota Martínez-Pereda

Jacob Standler Reed

Anthony Pedone

Emma Pek

KJ Relth-Miller*

Paul Sbrizzi

Zachary Ray Sherman

Mark Stafford

Noel David Taylor

Ben Umstead

Mila Zuo

Associate Programmers

Dylan Avery

Sara Anne Lynch

Andrew Stone

Martim Vian

Documentary Features

Programmers

Brian Bolster*

Marcin Borchardt

Fabian Vasquez Euresti

Summre Garber*

Brian Yulo Ng

Jason Polevoi

Elizabeth Viola Prouty

Patrick Sheehan

Debra Sugerman

Paul Szynol

Alejandro Valdes-Rochin

Associate Programmers

Andrew Harrison Brown

Jonathan Berman

Skizz Cyzyk

Ashley Seering

Doug Wirth

Breakouts

Joanna Vasquez Arong

Michael Gallagher

Josh Mandel*

Craig Parish

Alison Galarza
Graphic Artist

Beth Prouty
Consultant, Press and Media Liason

Brogan Luke Bouwhuis
Social Media Manager

Cayden Turnbow
Festival Intern

Chet Ellis
Festival Intern

Chris and Pat McFaul
Submissions Tech Gurus

Dekker Dreyer
Marketing Consultant

Joanne Butcher
Consultant, Unstoppable Co-founder

Kyra Rogers
Grants Manager

Lily Yasuda
Festival Manager

Michael Christopher Morin
Festival Producer

Paul Sbrizzi
Graphic Artist

Peter Baxter
President and Co-founder

Skylar Phillips
Marketing & Festival Coordinator

Steven Amhrein
Web Developer

Taylor Miller
Miami + Unstoppable Manager

Jamie Wolfe
Festival Key Artist

Taylor Miller
Secretary

Ken Coelho
Treasurer

Paul Rachman
Director

Peter Baxter
Director

Sandy Lighterman
Director