Festival Staff

Gabrielle A. Hanna

Executive Director

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Gabrielle A. Hanna has been with the Festival, first as Director of Development then as Executive Director, since 2002. She earned her undergraduate degree at Barnard College, and a Masters at Columbia University, and has worked in the development field for more than twenty years. Prior to her work with PIFF, she was the President of GAH Consulting, a New York-based fundraising and special events company focusing on not-for-profit organizations. 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

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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

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Since 2003 Andrew Peterson has served as Director of Operations for the Provincetown International Film Festival and as Director of Theatre Operations for the Sundance Film Festival, continuing a long career in film production and presentation. He has worked as a producer, production manager and location manager on many feature films (working closely with independent filmmakers such as David Lynch, Alan Rudolph and Ted Demme) as well as on several projects with Prince. Among his producing credits is WORLD AND TIME ENOUGH, the Audience Award winner at the 1994 San Francisco Lesbian & Gay Film Festival. He has also consulted several award-winning independent feature films including Hilary Birmingham's TULLY, Jim McKay's OUR SONG and Hannah Weyer's LA BODA among others.

Andrew is also a screenwriter and filmmaker. His short films have screened at numerous film festivals, museums and on US and British television, and he has received several screenwriting grants and awards. Most recently he co-wrote THIS CAR UP which was included in Strand Releasing's BOYS LIFE 4: FOUR PLAY. Andrew holds a BA from Middlebury College (where he was a visiting film/video instructor in 2001) and an MFA from New York University's Graduate Institute of Film & Television.

Jill Vaughan

Managing Director

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Since 2004 Jill has worked at the Volunteer Director and the Managing Director. Jill earned her undergraduate degree in Psychology from Michigan State University, a Masters in Social Work from Loyola University, and a Masters in Education from Northeastern University. After working 20 plus years in mental health, education, and child welfare, she finds the Film Festival fun and relaxing. Jill is also one of the owners of Essentials, a small convenience store in Provincetown. In the winter she can be found biking along the ocean in Florida.

Michelle Crone

Co-Operations Director

Nick Robertson

Co-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.