BOARD OF TRUSTEES
SUSAN CARTSONIS (WIFF Chair)
Susan Cartsonis is a Producer and President of Storefront Pictures.In 2000 The Hollywood Reporter named her one of the top five grossing producers of the year for her box office record-breaking film, WHAT WOMEN WANT (Paramount) starring Mel Gibson, and WHERE THE HEART IS (20th Century Fox) starring Natalie Portman, Ashley Judd, and Sally Field.
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ILENE KAHN POWER (WIFF Vice Chair, Co-Chair Legacy Program)
Emmy award winning producer Ilene Kahn Power was Executive Producer on the acclaimed GIA. The film received three Golden Globe Awards, six Emmy nominations, including Outstanding Motion Picture For Television. She was also nominated by the Producers Guild of America for the Laurel Award as Outstanding Producer for long-form television in 2001 for her work on the film. Ilene Kahn Power was most recently the creative producer on CBS’ ELVIS, USA Networks' 'TRAFFIC', and Hallmark’s "THE DEAD HOLLYWOOD MOM’S SOCIETY" based on Lindsay Maracotta’s book of the same name. Kahn Power was instrumental in the establishing of HBO Films. In her ten years as Vice President of HBO Pictures, Kahn Power supervised the development and production of over sixty films.
CAROL CHACAMATY (WIFF Treasurer)
Carol Chacamaty was born and raised on a dairy farm in Northern Illinois. She moved to NYC in 1970 and started her career in entertainment working as a photo stylist and photographer’s assistant. Ms. Chacamaty moved to Los Angeles in 1975, working for various agents, directors and producers. In 1978, she began her continuing association with Steve Tisch and Jon Avnet. She is currently Executive Vice President of Finance and Administration for Brooklyn Films, Jon Avnet’s production company. Additionally, Carol is responsible for all financial and administrative aspects of Jon and Steve’s multiple companies, ranging from real estate to Broadway shows.
GLENDA GRANT (WIFF Secretary)
From 1995 to 2004, Glenda was President of HEP, a division of The Hearst Corporation and is one of the largest and most successful independent television production companies with a strong record of quality programming. She was originally recruited into HEP as Sr. Vice President to manage sales and development of television movies and mini-series. Within one year she was promoted to President of division with expanded duties to include supervision of production as well as staff of in-house producers. In 1995, she was promoted to President of company and assumed all executive responsibilities previously handled by two co-chairmen. Before HEP, Glenda served as Vice President of Administration & Operations at ITC Productions, Inc. Glenda handled all human resource matters for company including hiring of all non-executive staff. In 1985, she moved into the creative area ultimately assuming responsibility as Vice President, Television for all television movie and mini-series development and production.
CANDACE BLOCK
Candace Block is a marketing and business development professional with extensive expertise in financial, entertainment, sports, sponsorship and cause-related marketing ventures. Block is President of The Block Network (TBN), a marketing communications company, focused on providing consulting services for the creation & management of strategic relationships, alliances & networking. In addition, Ms. Block had been advising a team at Morgan Stanley Private Wealth Management,(MSPWM) Beverly Hills, in entertainment marketing & networking issues and is a registered securities broker. Prior to joining MSPWM, Block provided marketing services to a team at Citigroup Smith Barney. Block has developed a broad range of contacts, resources and an expertise in networking. Recent projects have included: The Governor of California’s Conference for Women & Families, Ralph Edwards Productions, Dell Technology Seminar for Women, LOHAS-Lifestyle of Health & Sustainability Conference, Image Entertainment, Dream Big Productions, ThinkQuest Awards; One World Networks and Yachtstore.com to name a few.
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HOLLACE DAVIDS
Hollace Davids has spent most of her career planning and executing events from premieres for 5,000 to dinner parties for 10. Currently, she serves as Senior Vice President of Special Projects at Universal Pictures in the Feature Marketing Department. She is responsible for planning and implementing all Universal Premieres for the motion pictures, working on the Academy and Awards Campaigns as well as film festivals. She handles all special projects for the studio including the recent premieres of LEATHERHEADS, DEFNITELY, MAYBE, CHARLIE WILSON’S WAR, AMERICAN GANGSTER, THE GOLDEN AGE, THE KINGDOM, and EVAN ALMIGHTHY, Motion Picture Group parties, dinners, retreats, tradeshows and Exhibitor Relations Meetings, Workshops and Film Festivals.
Davids served for three years (from 2000 to 2003) as the President of Women In Film (Los Angeles), the non-profit organization founded in 1973 with over 2,400 members both men and women in the entertainment industry. She also served as Vice President on the Board as well as co-chair of the 2003 30th Anniversary Crystal/Lucy Awards. Women In Film has a mentor program, internship program, award-winning PSA program, assists filmmakers with grants, provides scholarships and does a number of advocacy and outreach programs. Prior to her Presidency, she served on the Board of Directors for six years.
LINDA FEFERMAN (Co-Chair Legacy Program)
Linda Feferman is a Guggenheim Fellow and Sundance award-winning producer, director, and writer. She was Series Producer and Director for the nationally broadcast Timothy Ferris PBS series, "Life Beyond Earth," a KCTS, PBS/Devillier Donegan co-production. Feferman was nominated for an Emmy for her episode of the PBS series, "The Astronomers," and a Grammy for a Sony Records music video. Her feature film, "Seven Minutes in Heaven" for Zoetrope and Warner Brothers Studios, received an audience award at the 1986 Sundance Film Festival.
For the past 10 years she has worked primarily in the field of science and technology. Feferman made "Simple Rules: Complex Behavior" the introductory film on Complex Adaptive Systems for the Santa Fe Institute. She also produced and directed evolutionary biologist Tom Ray's video, "Tierra--Evolution in Another Universe." Also in science, Feferman was in charge of the US research for the Errol Morris/Stephen Hawking feature length documentary film, "A Brief History of Time." In l991-92, she worked as a writer/director on the eight-part molecular biology series "The Secret of Life," for WGBH television in Boston.
Feferman has been awarded 21 fellowships and grants including 1982 fellowship to live and work in Japan. Her most recent educational short, "Missing: What to Do if Your Child Disappears" was lauded by Billboard Magazine as "an imperative video which succeeds brilliantly." She is known for the humor she instills in films and for tackling challenging material and making abstract subject matter accessible. Feferman works in film and video all over the world.
NAKETHA MATTOCKS
Larger Than Life Productions, Head of Development
DEBORAH MILLER
Miller was a VP with the William Morris Agency for fifteen years where she headed the TV Variety department for six years and headed the entire TV Talent Department for four years. This was followed by a two year stint as Vice President and head of the TV and Motion Picture Talent Department at The Agency for the Performing Arts. As a theatrical agent, she has represented a diverse and wide range of talented personalities, musicians, comedians, actors, writers, directors and producers, including David Letterman, Ned Beatty, Merv Griffin, Sir Ian McKellen, Julio Iglesias, Bob Uecker and William Devane. She served on the Board of Governors of ATAS for seven years and is currently on the Professional Representatives Peer Group Committee. She was Vice President of Women In Film and is currently on the Board of the Women In Film Foundation. Since 2003, Deborah Miller has been the president of Miller & Company, representing television and feature film actors.
NINA NISENHOLTZ
President, N2N EntertainmentCHEVONNE O'SHAUGHNESSY
A veteran sales agent, Chevonne O’Shaughnessy has long been recognized as one of the most respected sales persons for independent movies. The reason for her success is she always responds to what the market wants with high quality entertainment product that appeals to the worldwide market.
A woman of many languages and an accomplished businesswoman, Chevonne O’Shaughnessy served as Vice President at the established mini studio PM Entertainment for ten years. During her time at PM Entertainment she sold over 150 feature films and 2 TV series. She successfully guided the company to a dominant position within the global marketplace.
BETSY POLLOCK
Betsy has worked as a Producer, Line Producer, UPM and a 1st AD over her 25 year career in the Motion Picture Industry. In 2004 she was the Co-Producer of a short film entitled TWO SOLDIERS, which won the Academy Award for best dramatic short at the 2004 Academy Awards. As a film production professional she was associate producer of the feature film WIND, directed by Carroll Ballard; head of production for a film production company called Filmlink International; first assistant director on such films as STEALING HOME, LADY IN WHITE and GOOD BURGER, in addition to work on numerous commercials and documentary films. Betsy was the co-founder of the PSA Committee of Women in Film a group created to produce and distribute public service announcements to local groups unable to publicize their services in any other way. Betsy also served at one time on the Board of Directors of Women in Film. Betsy was the Head of the Producing Discipline at the North Carolina School of the Arts from 2000 through 2003 and while there produced a marketing video which has become one of the school’s primary marketing tools. She is currently Associate Dean/Director of Production Services at the American Film Institute and as such is responsible for overseeing over 100 short films each year.
PAT QUINN
Partner/Manager of Quinn Media Management, New Media Revenue Source Advisor and Programming Consultant
Pat Quinn is the head of Quinn Media Management. She is a new media revenue source advisor to Hollywood and international producers and companies. One of her specialties is Programming Acquisitions and Co-Productions, and TV show packaging. Her clients include award winning screenwriters, and U.K. television series formats, which she packages for networks and cable.
Clients include TV2 in Norway, TV3 in Ireland, the UK's Motive Television and TRC's International Development Programme sponsored by the UK channels BBC and Ch 4.
PAMELA RODI
MARION ROSENBERG, OBE
Marion Rosenberg graduated from the Universities of Manchester, England and Grenoble, France. She started her show business career in the Bands and Acts Department of MCA. From 1960 to 1976 she worked in production on both sides of the Atlantic, on such films as I COULD GO ON SINGING (Judy Garland), THE BEST MAN (Henry Fonda), WHERE EAGLES DARE (Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood) and THE MISSOURI BREAKS (Marlon Brando and Jack Nicholson). In l976 she became head of EMI Films in Los Angeles, and set up such productions as THE DRIVER, CONVOY and THE DEERHUNTER, on which she served as Associate Producer.
LISA SANDERSON
CAROL SAVOIE
Director, Tax Entertainment, Deloitte Tax LLP
ROBIN SCHORR
Robin Schorr is head of creative production for Bill Pohlad’s River Road Entertainment, an independent film production company dedicated to quality theatrical film. The company is best known for co-producing Academy Award winner, Brokeback Mountain, as well as A Prairie Home Companion and the upcoming Sean Penn directed film, Into the Wild, based on the best-selling book by Jon Krakauer and starring Emil Hirsch, Vince Vaughn, William Hurt and Catherine Keener. Schorr recently served as President of Production for Lionsgate-based Sobini Films, producing the upcoming Universal release Peaceful Warrior starring Nick Nolte, Scott Mechlowicz and Amy Smart and based on the bestselling novel by Dan Millman. She also produced the Paramount/Lionsgate co-production The Prince and Me, starring Julia Stiles, among other titles.
NANCY SCHREIBER
Nancy Schreiber is an award winning cinematographer based in both New York and Los Angeles. She came up througfh the ranks as an electrician and gaffer,working for such directors at Martha Coolidge , Claudia Weill and Richard Pearce. In 1995 Nancy Schreiber was voted into membership into the prestigiousAmerican Society Of Cinematographers, the fourth female in the organization's history. Well regarded in the industry, Schreiber was chosen as the director ofphotography on 'Visions Of Light', a stunning documentary on the art of cinematography, an early Hi-Definition Film. Schreiber was honored with the Best Dramatic Cinematography Award at Sundance 2004, with the film 'November', directed by Greg Harrison and starringCourtney Cox. In 1997, Schreiber shared the Best Cinematography Award at Sundance for the documentary 'My America…Or Honk If You Love Buddah'.
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PAULA SILVER
NANCY RAE STONE
Nancy Rae Stone has worked as a producer, line producer and executive in the motion picture industry for over 20 years. She recently completed a 9 year stint as the Executive Vice President of Production at Beacon Pictures, where she supervised the physical production of notable theatrical films, including “Spy Game”, “Bring It On”, “Family Man”, “13 Days”, “A Lot like Love”, “Emperor’s Club”, “The Hurricane”, and the HBO Premiere film, “PU-239”. Ms. Stone oversaw the production of films ranging from $4M to $90M dollars.
Prior to her position at Beacon, Ms. Stone was an independent producer and line producer, with credits such as “The Last Seduction” with Linda Fiorentino, “Femme Fatale” with Colin Firth, “Playing God” with Angelina Jolie, and “American Heart”, starring Jeff Bridges.
CATHLEEN SUMMERS
Summers Entertainment
DEBORAH ZIPSER
River Road Entertainment
ADVISORY COUNCIL
- DIANE ASSELIN BAER
- STEPHANIE AUSTIN
- SUSAN BAERWALD
- PATRICIA BARRY
- DANA BELCASTRO
- DEBBI BOSSI
- BARBARA BOYLE
- MARTHA COOLIDGE
- LORAINE DESPRES
- SHERRY DEWANE
- BONNY DORE
- JUDEE FLICK
- NANCY GATES
- TARA GRACE
- MOLLIE GREGORY (WIF FOUNDATION HISTORIAN)
- FELICIA HENDERSON
- LYNN HIRSHFIELD
- JOAN HYLER
- IRMA KALISH
- NICOLE KATZ
- WILLETTE KLAUSNER
- SHARON LAWRENCE
- JOHNNA LEVINE
- NANCY MALONE (WIF CO-FOUNDER)
- JAN OXENBERG
- JUDITH PARKER HARRIS
- DOROTHEA PETRIE
- DORIS ROBERTS
- MICHELE ROBERTSON
- LORI SCHWARTZ
- DONNA SMITH
- MARION SPIEGELMAN
- CATHERINE SUGAR
- MARGOT WINCHESTER
- SHELLEY ZALIS
