Lead, Catapult Productions/Artistic Director, Screen 360: Films for Children of the World
Non-profit film exhibition and production company aimed making social and educational impact through increasing the exchange of international stories about children and childhood told through cinema. 2000-present
Children's FilmFest, Mill Valley Film Festival 1995
Coach, Producer Hasso Plattner Institute, School of Design Thinking, Potsdam, Germany
Coaching multidisciplinary international teams toward the arrival at unique solutions for social, industrial or educational problems using Design Thinking, a user-centered method for design and innovation.
d.Confestival conception and production, worked with researchers and advisors to create an international gathering of design thinkers. 2011-2012
Programmer, Coordinator
Children's FilmFest, Mill Valley Film Festival 1995
Chicago International Children's Film Festival, Chicago, 1994
Films for People 4 and Up Mill Valley Film Festival 1993
Programmed films for young people and created corresponding activities
to enhance aspects of the film stories and the art of film making. Included
fundraising and extensive community outreach, international correspondence
and travel coordination, working with film distributors, independent
filmmakers, producers and volunteer staff.
Appointed to the International Jury at the Berlin Film Festival's Kinderfilmfest,
February 2001 and The 41st International Film Festival for Children
and Youth in the Czech Republic, June 2001.
Additional Programming
Film series, Kunststoff (Yannis Adoniou, Tomi Paasonen, directors) Premiere,
1998
Benefit for the California Association of Midwives, A Midwife's Tale
and Birth, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 1997
Dance Film Festival, National Dance Week, San Francisco State University,
1987
Designer, Coordinator
Filmmakers' Lounge/Hospitality Suite San Francisco International Film
Festival, 1998, 1999
Responsible for furnishing, creating a comfortable and functional atmosphere
to welcome visiting filmmakers and members of the press, as well as
to provide a suitable atmosphere where many departments of the festival
could conduct their production roles. In 1998, along with my production
crew, I transformed a completely raw space into comfortable reception,
office and press interview room. In 1999, with two small theaters to
transform, I established the "Viewer" installation project.
Ten local artists' sculptural interpretations of viewing held seats
throughout the festival.
Volunteer Coordinator
San Francisco International Film Festival 1991, 1992, 1994, 1995
Mill Valley International Film Festival 1991, 1992
Developed teams of up to 200 volunteers through recruitment and community
outreach. Conducted meetings and interviews and assigned duties to all
aspects of the festival production. Collaborated on program distribution,
special events, hospitality, merchandising, programming and marketing.
Coordinated and updated a scheduling system throughout the festival.
Developed and installed programs, including an event to reward longtime
volunteers and involve intergenerational community. Produced cast and
crew closing parties.
I also worked in sponsorship development in recruiting local and national
business support for the SFIFF in 1992.
Publications
• John Butler Foundation, Inc. New York, Researcher, Choreography
Preservation Project
• Dance Magazine, Ronn Guidi Retires
• CitySearch.com Lawrence Pech Dancers review with Suzanne Saltmarsh
• ODC Residency article about the two-year dance residency program
in San Francisco
• Film notes and text for the program guides of The San Francisco
International Film Festival, The Mill Valley Film Festival, The Chicago
Children's International Film Festival.
Dance Theater
• Video Imagery: Blinds, Suzanne Saltmarsh, choreographer,
4/01, 8/01
• Performer (voice): Love Sonnet, Yannis Adoniou, choreographer,
2/99
• Performer: Wavelength, Tomi Paasonen, choreographer, 1/98
• Producer, performer: Birth, dance film, Yannis Adoniou,
director 10/97
• Producer, performer, director: Life/Support, Support the Life
of the Work, evening of performance to benefit the Parachute Fund
in honor of the late choreographer Luis Gonzales, 6/96
• Performer: katy/katy, Yannis Adoniou, choreographer,
Brady Street Theater, 6/96
• Performer, choreographer: Who Knows, 6/96
• Performer, coach reconstruction: Conversations, Luis Gonzales,
choreographer, 6/96
• Original sound score and accompaniment (window screen accordion):
Paulina's Catching Flies, A. Esperanza Cunningham, choreographer,
Dance Theater Workshop, NY 4/96
• Performer: The Arc of Consciousness, Joseph Landini, choreographer,
New Performance Gallery 12/95
• Performer: Confrontation with Doors, Anda Abramovici,
choreographer, Dancers' Group/Footwork, 11/95
• Performer: Skyclad, Luis Gonzales, choreographer, James
Howell Theater and Theater Artaud, 6/95
• Performer: Solitary Strings, Anda Abramovici, choreographer,
Brady Street 7/95
• Original Sound Score and accompaniment (bicycle harp): Bookie,
A. Esperanza Cunningham, choreographer, James Howell Theater, 6/95
• Choreographer, Zoetrope, San Francisco International Film
Festival, 5/95
• Choreographer, Performer: A Space 10x10, Zaccho Theater,
5/95
• Original Sound Score and accompaniment (water drums): Doll
Garble, A. Esperanza Cunningham, choreographer, James Howell Theater,
4/95
• Performer: Conversations, Luis Gonzales, choreographer,
James Howell Theater, 4/95
• Choreographer, Performer: Twisted, SFDC Choreographers'
Workshop, Zaccho Theater, 2/95
• Assistant Director, Movement Coach, Performer: FreeFall,
Veronique Guillaud, director, a site-specific, multi-media movement
theater piece in San Francisco, January-May 1993
Visual Art
2000 Mural Environment, Flying Dreams, private commission, Portland,
Oregon
1999 Installation Viewer
1999 Film/Video Egg
1997 Mural in Workshop A-1 Pennant Hills High School, Pennant Hills,
Australia
1997 Mural Ilan's Room, private commission, Berkeley, California
1996 Mural I Got Shoes commission for Christmas In April at The Fellowship
School, San Francisco, California
1996 Mural Virginia Anne private commission, San Francisco, California
1994 Mural Olivia private commission, Portland, Oregon
1990 - 1995 Jewelry lines Mise en Cage and andrew and jenny