Jed Dietz
Director of the Maryland Film Festival
President of the Producer's Club of Maryland
The Executive Producer of the Fox Network's movie Rise and Walk: The Dennis Byrd Story, Jed Dietz is the founder and general partner of Film Development Partners. FDP is a limited partnership investing in ideas for feature film production. The fund has been used to develop ideas into screenplays for a variety of producers ranging from the actor Kevin Bacon to Larry Turman (The River Wild), and now has 15 projects in various stages of development. Mr. Dietz is involved with Parting the Waters, an eight-hour mini-series for ABC.

In 1993, Mr. Dietz founded the Producers Club of Maryland, Inc., a not for profit corporation to help the Maryland Film Office attract more film and television production to Maryland. The organization represents business leaders from around the state and has been instrumental in a significant increase in the film business in Maryland in the past few years.

The Producers Club owns the Maryland Regional Production Guide, the only comprehensive "yellow pages" for film and television production companies; has its own Web site geared to the Guide (www.mdrpg.com); and organized a production conference, REELMaryland, for local businesses who want to learn more about the opportunities for increased business with production companies. The Producers Club funds and administers the Producers Club of Maryland Filmmakers Fellowship each year in partnership with Sundance Labs. The Producers Club has organized numerous premier screenings and marketing events on both coasts.

Mr Dietz graduated from Deerfield Academy, the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill where he was a Morehead Scholar, and he holds an M.B.A. from the University of Rochester. He serves on the Marketing Committee of the National Aquarium, and is on the Board of Baltimore’s CenterStage.


Skizz Cyzyk
Programming Manager
Skizz is a filmmaker who founded and ran Baltimore's Mansion Theater and MicroCineFest, introducing countless underground films to the Baltimore area since 1993. As a filmmaker, Skizz is known for the Formstone documentary Little Castles, that he directed and edited, and an award-winning animated short called 4 Films in 5 Minutes. Skizz serves as a Jury member and projectionist at Slamdance, and consults with various other festivals including the Atlanta Film & Video Festival and Alabama’s Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival. A founding member of the Maryland Film Festival's Programming Advisory Board, Skizz made important programming contributions to each of the first two Festivals before taking on the position of Programing Manager in 2001.  He also serves on the Board of Directors for Maryland Lawyers for the Arts, and plays drums and ukulele in numerous musical outfits.


Eric Allen Hatch
Programming Administrator
Eric Allen Hatch graduated from St. Mary's College of Maryland in 1996 with a degree in History and has contributed film, music, and literature reviews to Baltimore’s City Paper since 1997. He founded, programs and hosts the Baltimore Museum of Art's Free First Thursdays Film Series, which champions visionary international cinema of the 1960s and 70s. Eric was also a frequent member of the MicroCineFest (R.I.P.) screening committee. A former manager of Video Americain and founding member of the Red Room Collective, he has written numerous short stories. Unlike his vegetarian diet, his taste in film is absolutely omnivorous, although lifelong favorites include Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Frederick Wiseman, and Claire Denis.

Melina Giorgi
Operations & Development Manager
Melina is a photographer and closeted-film-lover who was outed recently when she joined the festival full-time.  As a photographer, Melina has shown work nationally, and worked for various publications, including Citypaper.  She has collaborated on several arts and music shows (The Mishap Proms) in San Francisco and produced a project for the Stephen Cohen Gallery and the New York International Photo Expo.  The project, a cross-country collaboration/installation, was an experience in "herding cats" a skill she brings to the festival.  Melina started volunteering for the festival in 2002 and joined part-time in 2007 assisting Taryn Gentry with grant-writing and development. 

Lucia A Treasure
Membership Coordinator

Zoe Keller
Intern

Festival 2008 Operations

Rahne Alexander
Travel/Hospitality Coordinator

Upon her expatriation from California, the first thing Rahne
Alexander (www.rahne.com) did in Baltimore was attend the premier of
The Cockettes at The Charles, which she took as a sign that she had
come to the right place. Since then, she's become a driving force
behind the Charm City Kitty Club cabaret and her girl garage rock
band The Degenerettes. A contributor to local publications, including
City Paper and Smile, Hon, You're In Baltimore, she has also been
featured at The Stoop Storytelling Series. In her spare time, Rahne
helps manage Video Americain and the Artmobile online arts community.

Camille Blake Fall
Filmmaker's Lounge Concierge

Scott Braid
Tent Village Coordinator

Scott Braid emerged from the woods some years back. It was discovered that he had been raised by owls but refused to let them regurgitate anything that wasn't vegetarian into his mouth. Eventually, he had to leave or face malnourishment. Since emerging from the woods he discovered that in addition to the natural world, he loved film and music. He is satisfying the latter love by playing with a band called LO MOdA and making music on his own. He satisfies the former by watching many films, working at MFF and hatching secret plans late at night. He sometimes returns to the woods to converse with his brothers and sisters.

Jennifer Burdick
Off-site Coordinator

Eric Cotten
Assistant to Operations Manager

Phil Davis
Technical Supervisor

Dale Marie Prenatt
Volunteer Coordinator

Troy Warner
Box Office Manager

Kacie Smith

Grey Adkins