Officers

Chair – David R. Barnard – Attorney, Lathrop & Gage
Vice Chair – Rich Ambler – Filmmaker, Ambler Films
Vice Chair – Matt Antrim – Filmmaker/Producer T2
Vice Chair – Nadine Mummaw – Women of the Motion Picture Industry
Treasurer – Jakeb D. Blake, CPA – BKD
Secretary – Ann McFerrin – KCMO Parks & Recreation

Directors

Fred Andrews – Founder/President Emeritus ex officio board member
Val Anderson – Producer/Outpost
Dennis Fallon – Filmmaker
Janet Fisher – Alliance Française
Robert Hubbard – filmmaker, writer
Kevin Mullin – UMKC, Communication Studies Dept
Barbara Noble – Reel Spirit Young Filmmakers
Nita Norris – KCP&L
Cathy Runyan-Svacina – Women in Film and TV – KC
Bobby Thompson – Photographer/filmmaker
Halli Vrooman –Newsletter

Key Staff – 2012—2013 Kansas City FilmFest

Veronica Elliott Loncar – Festival Coordinator
Matt Connolly – Volunteer Coordinator
John Niernberger – Webmaster

Heartland Advisory Board

Mitch Brian – Screenwriter
Patrick Clancy – Kansas City Art Institute, Chair of Photography/New Media Dpt.
Walter Coppage – Actor
Abbe Feitelberg – Jackson County – County Counselors Office

Jerry Harrington – Tivoli Cinemas, owner
Peter Jasso – Director – Kansas Film Commission
Jon McGraw – Sister Cities Association of Kansas City; Buttonwood Financial Group, LLC; Buttonwood Art Space, LLC
John Niernberger – Director, screenwriter, author
Dr. Tom Poe – Past Jubilee Board Chair; UMKC, Communication Studies
Jerry Rapp – Filmmaker
Butch Rigby – Screenland Theaters
Teri Rogers – Film Commission of Greater Kansas City; T2 + Back Alley Films
John Shipp – Globe Cinemas
Geoffrey Westra – Film Society of Greater Kansas City
Kevin Willmott – Screenwriter/director/actor, KU professor

US/International Advisory Board

Andy Anderson – Writer/Producer/Director; Andersonfilm
Tony Bifano – CineFilm Lab (Atlanta)
Meaghan Brander – Film Circuit, Toronto International Film Festival (Toronto, ON)
Julie Corman – Producer (LA)
Lee Daniel – Cinematographer (Austin)
Gordy Hoffman – Screenwriter (LA)
James McKee – Earwax/sound design (SF)
Steve Montal – Festival consultant; San Diego State University
Rob Nilsson – Director, Screenwriter (SF)
Esther Robinson – Producer/director (NY)
Edward Stencel – Royale Greenstone Entertainment
Mark Stolaroff – Director, No Budget Film School (LA)
Tara Veneruso – Screenwriter/director/editor; Flaming Angel films (LA)
Lois Vossen – Producer. Independent Lens, ITVS (SF)