Slamdance Headquarters Team
Aaron Cook
Special Projects Manager
Adele Han Li
Festival Manager
Alison Galarza
Graphic Artist
Baxter Parrott
Marketing and Sponsorships Manager
Beth Prouty
Consultant, Press and Media Liason
Brogan Bouwhuis
Social Media Assistant
Chris and Pat McFaul
Submissions Tech Gurus
Jessica Farrell
Marketing Director
Joanne Butcher
Consultant, Unstoppable Co-founder
Kai Alexis
Media + Marketing Assistant
Kyra Rogers
Grants Manager
Lalith Goli
Festival Assistant
Leila Salari
Festival Producer Assistant
Michael Christopher Morin
Festival Producer
Michael Merrell
Technical Director
Paul Sbrizzi
Graphic Artist
Peter Baxter
President and Co-founder
Steven Amhrein
Web Developer
Taylor Miller
Miami + Unstoppable Manager
Slamdance 2021 Artists
Allie Sassa
Festival Key Artist
Bronwyn Maloney
Festival Bumper Director
Slamdance Group Directors and Officers
Alina Solodnikova
Secretary
Ken Coelho
Treasurer
Paul Rachman
Director
Peter Baxter
Director
Sandy Lighterman
Director
Slamdance 2021 Programmers
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 2021 possible.
Narrative Features
Alex Reeves
Benjamin Umstead
Blake Robbins
Cameron Bruce Nelson
Camille Hollett-French
Carlota Martínez Pereda
Carl W. Lucas
Fabian Velasco
Harry Cherniak*
Joanna Vasquez Arong
Kyra Rogers
Mila Zuo
Paul Sbrizzi*
Raphael Dubois
Sarah Diamond*
Theo Georgescu
Trenton Waterson
Zachary Ray Sherman
Documentary Features
Alejandro Valdes-Rochin
Brian Scott Bolster*
Debra Sugarman
Elizabeth Prouty*
Fabian Vasquez Euresti
Marcin Borchardt
Mark Stafford
Matt Kliegman
Paul Szynol
Summre Garber*
Associate Programmers
Ashley Seering
Mario DeAngelis
Philip Rabalais
Sophie Webb
Breakouts
Benjamin Umstead
Craig Parish
Debra Eisenstadt
Jana Winternitz
Josh Mandel*
K.J. Relth-Miller
Matthew Keene Smith
Michael Gallagher
Paul Rachman*
Stacey Marbrey
Todd Remis
Narrative Shorts
Aaron Cook
Andrew Stone
Brian Bai Ren Yulo Ng
Brian Ratigan
Conner Marx
Cory Byers
Ema Solarova
F. Anthony Shepherd
Francisco Lacerda do Rego Pimentel
Gustavo Cerquera Benjumea
Jacob Gregor
James Earl Cox III
Jed Cowley
Joseph Cox
Kate Allgood Cowley
Kendall Beaver
Lori Jean Wilson*
Mauricio Saenz
Misti Boland Osbern*
Natacha A. Feola-Quintanilla
Patrick Andrew Murray
Randall Good*
Ricky Lee Everett
Ronnie Terrell Williams
Shane Aquino*
Shaun Parker
Susan Sfarra
Wally Chung
Yanyu Dong
Associate Programmers
Aimee Morgan
Ernie Quiroz
Tyler Macri
Zhuoyun Chen
Animation Shorts
Adele Han Li*
Bronwyn Maloney
Cassie Shao
Cecilia Elizabeth Fletcher*
Jenna Caravello
Jonni Philips
Lisa Yu
Lyndon J Barrois Sr
Paul Sbrizzi
Randall Good*
Experimental Shorts
Cherlyn Hsing-Hsin Liu
Christopher Bishop
Daniel Martinico*
David Stratton Walker
Julianna Torres Villarosa
Lori A Felker*
Rajee Samarasinghe
Randall Good*
Sara Suárez
Tina Takemoto
Documentary Shorts
Cheryl Bookout
Christopher Bishop
Danski Tang
David Stratton Walker
Emma Baida
Erin Babbin
Horatio Baltz*
Karol Lindholm
Melissa Ferrari*
Lilly Scourtis Ayers
Pilar Garcia-Fernandezsesma
Sam Gurry
Episodes
Bryce Anne Fishman
Craig Parish
Dekker Dreyer*
Pardeep Sahota
Patricia Beckmann
Robert Kleinschmidt
Summer Chastant*
Shyamala Reddy
Thomas Paul DeTrinis
Associate Programmers
Benjamin Umstead
Emily Ford-Halliday
Kacy Christine Boccumini
Zoe Pepper
Unstoppable
Asha Chai-Chang
Chris Furbee
Gabriel Cordell
Juliet Romeo
Steve Way
DIG: Digital, Interactive, Gaming
Dekker Dreyer
Joe Cox
Peter Baxter
The Department of Anarchy
Burke Roberts
Noel Lawrence
Additional Slamdance 2021 Programmers
Adinah Dancyger
Alex Ateah
Alina Solodnikova
Ania Urbanowska
Anna Siri
Annika Birgel
Brandon Alan Thompson
Brian Bolster
C C Abrahams
Carol Ann Short
Carolyn Marie Duncan
Chaerin Im
Charles Moore
Cherlyn Hsing-Hsin Liu
Chris Ritvo
Christopher James Lang
Daniel Barosa
Daniel Millar
Deborah Stephens
Doug Wirth
Duygu Erucman
Dylan Avery
Dylan Pasture
Eric Pedicelli
Erica Fellion
Fabian Euresti
Gewan Brown
Heqiuzi Wang
Ian J. Vogler
Ingrid Vargas
Jai Love-LaPan
Jakub Piątek
Jeremy Osbern
Jessica Liander
Joanne Mony Park
Joe Bookman
Joe Toronto
John Charter
Jordan Carlman
Justin A. McHugh
Justin Levy
Karin Hayes
Kirk Harris
Kyle M Sims
Laura Herman
Lauren Morrison
Lauren Sowa
Lori A Felker
Lynn Laor
Madeline DeFreece
Magda Jaroszewicz
Maha Al-Saati
Martim Vian
Mathew Nelson
Matthew Keene Smith
Maureen Duncan
Maxwell McCabe-Lokos
Melissa Kirkendall
Michael Bartolomeo
Michael Rubenstone
Michal Pietrzyk
Mike McNamara
Milos Mitrovic
Molly R Gandour
Nadja Andrasev
Natalie Neal
Nathan Reich
Nathan Sonenfeld
Ognjen Petković
Omri Dekel Kadosh
Oscar Oldershaw
Patrick Sheehan
Peter Harvey
Philip Labes
J. Daniel Hanna
Raphael Dubois
Rendah Haj
Rob Chihwen Lo
Ronny Sen
Rose Schimm
Sarah Hudson
Skizz Cyzyk
Sophie Feuer
Sophie Webb
Stephanie Bell
Steve Markle
Suki Hawley
Supinder Wraich
Walker Hare
Slamdance Miami Programmers
Dorian Munroe
Edith Bejerano
Eddy Moon
Ernie Quiroz
Igor Shteyrenberg
Katja Esson
Michelle McKoy
Peter Baxter
Prashant Thacker
Ron Baez*
Taylor Miller
Supporting Programmers
JD Friexas
Joanne Butcher
John Ainslie
Kevin Contento
Sasha Gransjean
* denotes programming team captain