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Screen
360 Production Staff and Advisory Board
Katy Kavanaugh, Founder and Artistic Director KATY KAVANAUGH was honored
to have served as president for the international juries of The 41st International
Film Festival for Children and Youth in Zlin in the Czech Republic and the
24 year-old Kinderfilmfest at the Berlin Film Festival in 2001. Most recently,
she was selected to attend the inaugural Talent Campus filmmaking seminars
presented by the Berlin Film Festival 2003. Ms. Kavanaugh began her involvement
with the international children's market in 1993 when she attended the Berlin
Kinderfilmfest. With a Turkmeni film from that festival, some American classics
and a Dr. Seuss retrospective, she produced her first program, FILMS FOR
PEOPLE 4 AND UP, at the Mill Valley Film Festival. She then went on to coordinate
America's most established children's film festival, The Chicago International
Children's Film Festival. In 1995, she returned to Mill Valley to establish
the CHILDREN'S FILMFEST with more international films from the Kinderfilmfest,
film arts workshops, and discussions of the issues in childrenıs media.
In addition to her ten years on the production staff of the San Francisco
International Film Festival, she has served on selection juries in the category
of children's programming for the S.F.I.F.F.'s Golden Gate Awards, the Chicago
Film Festival, The Chicago International Children's Film Festival, and The
National Educational Film and Video Festival. In 2000, Ms. Kavanaugh returned
to the Kinderfilmfest to research the foreign industry perspective of the
children's film market in America., discovering that most considered that
market to be cornered by one company. She also found that American representation
at that 23 year-old world-renown festival was less than could be counted
on two hands. She has devoted her production career to increasing awareness
of the benefits of diversifying children's programming with international
cinema, as well as to challenge the aesthetic of the genre with her own
filmmaking. Ms. Kavanaugh was born in San Francisco and received her B.A.
from San Francisco State University in Dance. For the past decade, she and
her company Catapult Productions, have performed in and produced dance theater,
produced film and film series and have painted murals in California, Oregon
and Australia. Her current work for screen, FLIEGEN, is an essay about flying
in German and English, for children. (www.catapultproductions.net)
Our Producer
in charge of Communications, DAVID PETERS is the director of DESIGN FILMS,
and a communication advisor to ambitious individuals and organizations.
In 1999, he founded DESIGN FILMS to research the achievements of design
and film, to celebrate them through public presentations, and to bring
these insights to the creation of new human-centered experiences. David
has curated programs and produced events about motion design at museums,
film festivals, conferences, and schools. His study of the modern history
of film titles debuted at the Film Society of Lincoln Center in New York
City, and has toured around the world. His focus at Exbrook Exchange Inc,
the communication company he founded in 1999, is creating strategic business
advantage through design. David's clients have included The Ocean Conservancy,
Brittanica.com, Barclays Bank, and numerous Silicon Valley enterprises.
(www.exbrook.com) David has taught in the graduate program in graphic
design at Yale University for three years, and lectured at the Smithsonian
Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, as well as dozens of other institutions
and creative associations. A resident of San Francisco since 1996, he
and his wife, art director Rhonda Rubinstein, are raising a San Francisco
native, one-year old son, Dash. www.designfilms.org
Born in New York and raised in San Francisco, LISA GIGLIO, our Producer
in charge of Development, received her BA in Drama from San Francisco
State University and her MFA in Directing in Middlesex University in London.
Ms. Giglio has received two Best Director awards from the San Francisco
Fringe Festival. She teaches Theater at colleges and directs for the stage
and opera internationally. Lisa is working with Screen 360 to build relationships
with the hometown business community to enable them to participate in
the development of Screen 360.
Graphic Designer, Jean-Benoit Levy, known for his poster design throughout
Europe, was raised in Switzerland and has carved out a home in San Francisco
over the past 12 years and established General Visual, the U.S. branch
of his Basel office AND (Trafic Grafic), in Sausalito. Jean-Benoit is
providing fresh graphic design and production to communicate the aspirations
of Screen 360. (www.and.ch)
Our associate producer, Christina Kung, born in San Francisco, is a graduate
of Urban High School and is currently a first-year film student at the
University of Miami. She participates on the Youthworks panel of the San
Francisco Film Festivalıs Golden Gate Awards. Christina aspires to make
film for the childrenıs genre and will assist in the curation and production
of Screen 360.
Advisors:
Yannis Adoniou is an award-winning dancer, choreographer and co-artistic
director of Kunst-stoff Dance Company in San Francisco. His work in both
dance and dance film have given him a prominent place in dance internationally.
Yannis is a strong proponent of education in the movement arts and is
offering access to groundbreaking dance films for our program. (www.kunst-stoff.org)
Joel Bachar is the co-director of Microcinema International, a media entertainment
company specializing in the sourcing, selection, exhibition, distribution
and promotion of entertaining media content to microcinemas and alternative
venues worldwide. Joels is offering Screen 360 curatorial resources as
well as production/publicity expertise. (www.microcinema.com)
Robin Epstein is a Bay Area native and a graduate of San Francisco State
who has worked in local broadcasting since1985 and with KQED since 1991.
Currently, she works on the public affairs program "This Week in Northern
California" and has produced numerous programs including ³Children and
Television Violence² with Hilary Rodham Clinton. Robin has been a juror
and a jury chair with the Golden Gate Awards competition of the San Francisco
International Film Festival, since 1989. Robin is our broadcasting specialist
and is directing us to the best choices for making Screen 360 accessible
to a greater audience.(www.kqed.org)
Patricia Rogan, is a 41-year veteran of Chicago and San Francisco elementary
schools. She was Katy Kavanaughıs sixth grade teacher at St. Agnes School
in San Francisco where her creative classroom is legendary. Ms. Rogan
is currently the Development Director of T.I.M.E.,raising funds for schools
in the Mission District. Ms. Rogan brings to Screen 360 her expertise
in education and understanding of the development of young minds. She
is serving as a curatorial advisor and our liason with San Francisco schools.
Jennifer Schwartz Arts and entertainment - that is Jennifer's work for
the last 18 years. Sheıs worked on the business side for such institutions
as the Yale Repertory Theatre, the San Francisco.Film Film Society, and
Paramount Pictures. She won an NEA grant to bring the Women's Comedy Show
to National Public Radio. She has an MFA from the Yale School of Drama
and is the Executive Director of San Francisco Stage & Film. Jennifer
is our specialist in arts business management and is providing direction
in this realm. (www.sfstagefilm.org)
Lennart Ström, is a film producer and the director of the 20 year-old
Swedish international childrenıs film festival, BUFF, in Malmö, Sweden.
Lennartıs association and guidance will offer Screen 360 a vein to the
longstanding Nordic tradition of childrenıs film production. (www.buff.nu)
David Yanofsky, is Executive Director of The Just Think Foundation, an
established San Francisco NPO dedicated to teaching young people literacy
for the 21st century by providing them with the skills to be critical
thinkers and creative producers.. He is also the director of the widely
broadcast documentary about the emergence of spoken work as a vital form
of teenage expression , POETIC LICENSE. (www.justthink.org)
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