Staff & Board

Contact the Festival

General Inquiries
info@jfi.org
415.621.0556

Press & Communications
press@jfi.org
415.621.0556 x213

Larsen Associates, Publicists
publicity@larsenassc.com

Box Office
boxoffice@jfi.org
415.621.0568
Mon–Fri, 11am–5pm

Operations
techops@jfi.org

Programming
programming@jfi.org

Filmmaker Services
jfifilmmakers@jfi.org

Guest Services
guestservices@jfi.org

Member Services
membership@jfi.org

Jewish Film Institute Staff

Lexi Leban, Executive Director
Jay RosenblattProgram Director
Marcia JarmelDirector of Filmmaker Services
Lawrence EwingDirector of Finance and Operations
Nate GellmanDirector of Development and Communications

Dominique Oneil, Programmer
Rebecca PierceMarketing and Communications Manager
Emma GoblerDevelopment Coordinator
Claudia Finkle, Administrative Coordinator

Board of Directors

Board of Directors

Evan Abrams, Treasurer
Julie Lubeck Arnheim
Sandee Blechman
Aviva Davis
Neil Fink
Ronnie Fuchs
Alexander Germanacos
Calvin Gibbs
Ralph Guggenheim, Chair
Vera Hartford
Matthew Hechinger
Susan Libitzky
Jeanne Miller
Michael Pearce
Lloyd Sacks
Barbara Shragge
Victoria Stone
Marissa Wertheimer

Advisory Board

Alan Berliner
Bonni Cohen
Rob Epstein
Jeffrey Friedman
Amos Gitai
Elliott Gould
Lee Grant
Roberta Grossman
Sayed Kashua
Lacey Schwartz
Jon Shenk
Gideon Raff

Festival Staff

Operations
Natasha Hoover, Festival Operations Manager
Chris Powell, Film Traffic Manager
Joey Smith, Tech & Media Manager

Programming
Lori Donnelly, Note Writer
Nancy Fishman, Note Writer
Laura Henneman, Note Writer
Thaïs Miller, Note Writer
Miguel Pendas, Copy Editor
Janis Plotkin, Note Writer
Peter L. Stein, Note Writer

Marketing
Caroline van Remortel, Designer
Jamie Cohen, Website Manager

Guest Relations
Claudia Finkle, Guest Relations Manager

Box Office provided by Box Cubed
Mitchell Vaughn
Ben Armington

Publicity
Larsen Associates, Publicists
Karen Larsen
Timothy Buckwalter
Joel Shepard
Zachary Thompson
Special Events
Leftwich Events Specialists, Inc

Festival Trailer
Where the Buffalo Roam

Festival Screeners
David Volansky
Bonnie Burt
Emmy Scharlatt
Estie Hudes
Ken Schneider
Gail Evenari
Lucy Lerner
Lisa Zigmund
Audrey Daniel
Shevi Loewinger
Ken Paul Rosenthal
Barbara Davis
Mark Valentine
Ruth Gumnit
Mark Lipman
Helen Cohen
Valerie Lapin
Ken Olshansky
Karen Olshansky