BOARD, STAFF, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Film Society Board of Directors Mary Reyelts, Board Chair Melodie Bahan Anne Carayon Richard Cohen Tom DeBiaso Tim Grady Rob Silberman Susan Smoluchowski Karen Sternal Mark Tierney Stephen Zuckerman Series Advisory Group Mahen Bonetti, Director, NY African Film Festival Cherif Keita, Filmmaker Jojo Ndege, Kilimanjaro Entertainment Abdi Roble, Photographer, Somali Documentary Project Charles Sugnet, Professor, University of MN Joëlle Vitiello, Professor, Macalester College
Film Society Staff Susan Smoluchowski - Executive Director Jesse Bishop - Programming Manager Eric Wilson - Marketing and Development Manager Andrew Lussenhop - Multimedia Coordinator Christopher James - Publicist Alex Wolf - Submissions Coordinator Amanda Bialon - Development Assistant Mary Kate Burnes - Outreach & Marketing Assistant Megan Schultz - Multimedia Intern Maury Steinman - Operations Manager
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Acknowledgements We would like to thank the many individuals whose assistance with this series is key to our success and to our audience’s experience. The list is not in any particular order, and if we’ve left you off by some terrible mistake, it is because the list is so very long that, in the thick of things, we almost lose count... Thanks to our generous members and donors, the St. Anthony Main and Mixed Blood Theatre staff, as well as Jack Reuler, Julia Gallagher, Sheryl Mousley, Tom Gitaa, Jeff Arundel, Dana Thompson, Ken Abdo, Hafed Bouassida, Heidi Marsh, Daniel Getahun, Lana Barkawi, Mohannad Ghawanmeh, Ingrid Lang, Scott Pollock, Hisham Bizri, Liz Armstrong, David Little, Jan-Lodewijk Grootaers, Alita Watson, John Schott, Sylvia Kaplan, Carol Patrikakos, Abdivahman Kahim, Lisa Rubin, John Wright, Craig Rice, Lucinda Winter, Andrew Peterson, Sven Shelgren, Ahmed Tharwat, Andrea Brown, Qaiser Bakhtiari, Nadia Honary, Louisa Leone, Darryl Streeter, Dave Siewart and Ideal Printers, Kjell Bergh, Elodie Dupont, Sarika Hemi Lakhani, Kasia Karwan, Manon Bayet, Julien Rejl, Filipa Domingues, Michael Tuckman, Mallory Jacobs, Jacob Wolters, Charlie Olsky, Raquel Sales, Valda Dicks, Fathia Absie, Tariq Tarey, Laura Talsma, Cherif Keita, Ben Nabors, Jehane Noujaim, Leah Warshawski, Chris Towey, Darren Dean, Alrick Brown, Linda Duchin, Clément Bancel, Margot Rossi, Jamie Meltzer, Chinonye Chukwu, Kal Touré, Merzak Allouache, François Verster, Bryan Little, Yousry Nasrallah, Clément Oubrerie, Marguerite Abouet, João Viana, Khalo Matabane, Youssef Chahine, Safinez Bousbia, Mahamet-Saleh Haroun, Mika Kaurismäki, Andrew Dosunmu, Judy Kibinge, Stefanie Sycholt, and the many legislators who, through their support of the Legacy Amendment, have made this event possible.
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