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Gabrielle A. Hanna
Executive Director
Gabrielle Hanna began as PIFF’s Director of Development in 2000, and became Executive Director in 2003, combining 20 years of fundraising experience with skills in economic development and tourism, organizational management, and daily operations. She is former Executive Director of the Provincetown Business Guild and has served on the Provincetown’s Finance Committee and Economic Development Council. She was previously President of GAH Consulting, a New York-based fundraising and special events company raising funds for not-for-profit organizations and documentary films. She also was Executive Director of the Andrew Goodman Foundation, Director of Development of Body Positive, a New York City HIV/AIDS service organization, Director of Institutional Advancement for The Hewitt School, and began her career at Barnard College as Associate Director of Alumnae Affairs.
Connie White
Artistic Director
Connie White has been active in the independent film business for twenty years, initially as an innovative film programmer for the historic Brattle Theatre in Harvard Square, Cambridge, Mass. There, she served as co-owner, operator and film programmer/booker from 1987-2001. Since 1996, she has also been programming and booking art and independent films for the Coolidge Corner Theatre in Brookline, Mass., and, more recently, for the Pleasant Street Theater in Northampton, Mass., the New Art Cinemas in Provincetown, Mass., the Amherst Cinema Arts Center in Amherst, Mass., and the Broadway Centre Cinemas in Salt Lake City, Utah.
A co-founder of the Boston International Festival of Women's Cinema, Connie is also the Artistic Director of the Provincetown International Film Festival in Provincetown, Mass., which, under her direction, has hosted and honored such acclaimed independent filmmakers as Gus Van Sant, John Waters, Mira Nair, Christine Vachon, Todd Haynes, and Jim Jarmusch.
Connie created Balcony Releasing in 2002, which designs and implements theatrical distribution strategies for independently produced documentary features. Balcony's first release, Daughter From Danang, went on to win an Academy Award Nomination for Best Feature Documentary, alongside Bowling for Columbine, Spellbound and Winged Migration. Other Balcony Releasing films include the acclaimed documentaries The Same River Twice, Love and Diane, Al Franken: God Spoke, So Much So Fast, and Wrestling with Angels:Playwright Tony Kushner.
Ms. White was awarded The 2000 "Image Award for Vision and Excellence" from Women in Film and Video, New England. She served on the jury for the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, and is a consultant for the Sundance Institute's current "Art House Project" Initiative.
Andrew Peterson
Director of Programming
Andrew Peterson is an award-winning filmmaker who has been working in independentfilm for over 15 years. Along the way he has not only made films, but has taughtfilmmaking and worked for years as a festival programmer. He began his career as alocation manager working with many respected directors including Alan Rudolph, TedDemme and David Lynch. This led him to New York University Graduate Film Schoolwhere he received his MFA in Filmmaking and made several acclaimed short films,which have screened at numerous film festivals and museums and on US and Britishtelevision.
Andrew has been Director of Programming for the Provincetown International FilmFestival since 2006. Prior to that, he served as Director of Operations for PIFF and Director of Theatre Operations for the Sundance Film Festival. Inaddition to his programming work, Andrew has helped secure acting and directinghonorees for PIFF including Quentin Tarantino, Todd Solondz, Gregg Araki,Gael García Bernal, Lili Taylor, Alan Cumming, and Jane Lynch.
Andrew also serves as Vice President of Production for WercWerk Works, an independent film production and finance company based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He has co-produced the WercWerk Works filmsLife During Wartime by Todd Solondz,Howl by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, and The Convincer by Jill Sprecher. He also produced the award-winning feature films World and Time Enough by Eric Mueller and Older Than America by Georgina Lightning. He regularly consults for independent films and filmfestivals.
Lisa Viola
Senior Programmer
Lisa Viola is an Associate Programmer for the Sundance Film Festival and a Programmer for the Provincetown International Film Festival. Lisa worked in Los Angeles as a Programmer for the Sundance Film Festival from 1992-1998. She has served on various juries and panels, including SXSW, and is a current Advisory Board Member for the Coolidge Theater in Brookline, MA. Lisa received her B.A. in Communication Arts from the University of Wisconsin.
Jared Earley
Programming Manager
Jared Earley's career includes more than a decade of experience in the fields of marketing, film exhibition and nonprofit arts management. A graduate of the University of Pittsburgh, Jared launched his career as the award-winning Program Director and General Manager of The Oaks Theater (2001-2006), a historic neighborhood cinema in Oakmont, PA (a suburb of Pittsburgh), where exhibitions, marketing and talent appearances attracted critical acclaim and propelled the venue’s iconic status as a regional destination for film. While residing in Pittsburgh, Jared’s other professional ventures included partnership management of Penn Hills Cinemas, appointment to the Board of the Pittsburgh International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, and coordination of The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust’s summer repertory film series. As Managing Director of the Philadelphia Film Festival and Philadelphia International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival (2006-2007), Jared led the city's two flagship film exhibition events, successfully driving attendance to new heights. In recent years, Jared has been contracted as Administrative Director and Film & Video Coordinator for the Ingenuity Festival of Art + Technology (2008), and Theater Operations for the Cleveland International Film Festival (a position he has revisited annually since 2002). As a freelance contributor, Jared has also written on film for a variety of publications including the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, TLA and EcoWatch Journal. With as much a passion for quality food as he has for film, Jared’s principal occupation is managing marketing projects for Whole Foods Market (2008-present), coordinating store and product promotions that support the natural and organic foods supermarket’s marketing objectives in Maryland, Washington, DC and the surrounding Mid-Atlantic region. Jared has been involved with the Provincetown International Film Festival since 2005, returning annually to coordinate the short film program and support programming, guest services and marketing objectives. Jared, his partner David, and their fantastic feline friends share their time between residences in Washington, DC and Cleveland, Ohio.
Nick Robertson
Operations Director
Nick Robertson moved to Provincetown in April of 1999. He is co-owner of the retail shop i d, and a chair of the town's Licensing Board. Nick was been a member of the PIFF Board of Directors for almost three years, and a community sponsor of the Festival for four. He studied film in college and has a Bachelor's degree in communications from Loyola Marymount University. He worked in the music and film industry in Los Angeles after graduating and has a keen knowledge and love of film.
Sally Brophy
Art Director
Sally Brophy produced the graphic design work for the first three years of the Provincetown International Film Festival. She returned as Art Director in 2008. Her graphic design background includes 25 years of art direction for businesses ranging from National Lampoon magazine to the Civil Society Institute. Sally is also a visual artist known for her white-line woodcuts, her work can be seen at Kobalt Gallery in Provincetown..
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Evan Lawson - President
Lin Gentemann - Secretary
Gail Williams - Treasurer
Jerry Anathan
Rhonda Berchuck
Jane Harper
Margaret Hart
Jim Lande
Dorothy Palanza
Christine K. Walker
John Yingling
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