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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.
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.
Eric Allen Hatch
Director of Programming
Programming Manager Eric Allen Hatch graduated from St. Mary's College of Maryland with a degree in History. Since 1997, he has contributed hundreds of film, music, and literature reviews to Baltimore’s City Paper and other publications. He founded, programmed and hosted the Baltimore Museum of Art's Free First Thursdays Film Series, a free-to-the-public monthly film series that ran from Spring 2006 through Summer 2008, and which championed visionary international cinema of the 1960s and 70s. For several years, Hatch was a member of the screening committee for MicroCineFest, one of the country's premiere underground film and video festivals. He also co-founded the Red Room Collective, the organization behind the High Zero festival, an internationally lauded festival dedicated to experimental, improvised music.
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 Manager
Lucia A. Treasure is a writer, performer and professional pigeon chaser. She received her B. A. in Theatre Arts from Earlham College and was mentored by the great downtown performance artist Penny Arcade, while living in New York. Lucia is the co-founder of Baltimore's own Hole In The Wall Cabaret, currently on hiatus until 2011. Her work has been presented at Baltimore Theatre Project, Hole In The Wall Cabaret, and Hamilton Arts Collective, as well as Performance Space 122 in New York. Lucia is passionately dedicated to nuturing a sense of community and artistic evolution in the Baltimore art scene and enjoys watching her work at the Maryland Film Festival join all of her projects in uniting around this goal. She is also particularly talented in the art of macaroni and cheese and would like to inquire about your first memory.
Operations Staff 2010
Rahne Alexander
Travel / Transportation Manager
Scott Braid
Programming Administrator
Kate Ewald
PR, Outreach & Tent Village Coordinator
Eric Cotten
Operations & Development Assistant
Camille Blake Fall
Filmmakers Lounge Concierge
Dale Marie Prenatt
Volunteer Coordinator
Zoe Keller
Assistant Volunteer Coordinator
Ed Ruch
Technical Supervisor
Troy Warner
Box Office Director
Bryan Morton
Manager, Main Box Office
Rebecca Vega
MICA Captain
Sonia Kagna
UBSC Captain
Marilynn Gordon
Captain, Main Box Office
Mark Stewart
Captain, Main Box Office
Nicole Yeftich
Captain, Main Box Office
Kristopher Castle
Standby Line Captain
Brett Wray
Accounting Captain
Jennifer Burdick
Merchandise Captain
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