The board of Women in Film & Video/New England meets once a month. WIFV/NE’s board is a ‘working board’ and members serve two-year terms. Responsibilities of the board include serving as ‘ambassadors’ for WIFV/NE by attending industry events and making contacts with other community organizations; serving on committees, including a Programming Committee, Fundraising Committee, Screenwriting Event Committee; and working as a team to accomplish the goals of the organization. If you are interested in volunteering or in becoming a board member, please email us!
Juliet Schneider, Interim President – Juliet is a freelance animator, production designer, and owner of Iridium Productions, based in the Boston area. She has an MFA in Video/Multimedia, from Tufts University/School of the Museum of Fine Arts. She also holds a BFA in General Fine Art, from Maryland Institute College of Art. Juliet has taught fine art, video production, and computer graphics at USES, The Children’s Art Centre, Fletcher-Maynard Academy, CCTV, MATV, and Bradford College. Her recent work includes collaborative animations and production design work on several locally made music videos and shorts. juliet@womeninfilmvideo.org
Joan Meister – Joan is Head of Production and Co-Owner of Hero4Hire Creative, a full service commercial animation and production studio in the heart of historic South Boston. Working with clients such as Cartoon Network, Staples, and PBS Joan crusades for the highest level of creativity on all productions. In addition to her duties on the WIFVNE Board, Joan is a member of the Association of Independent Commercial Producers and the Mass Production Coalition. Her death defying hobbies include surfing waves along the east coast. joan@womeninfilmvideo.org
Shannon Mullen, WIFVNE Writer/Blogger – Shannon is a producer and founder of Broad Reach Productions. She recently worked as an Assistant Director on the independent feature GIRLFRIEND and is now developing two feature projects of her own. Shannon is also a public radio and print journalist and she writes for WIFVNE about the film industry in Hollywood East and West. shannon@womeninfilmvideo.org
Amy Appleton - Amy is a senior visual effects producer at Brickyard VFX, based on Newbury Street in Boston. After earning her master’s degree from Emerson College, she post produced throughout the Boston market. At Brickyard, she focuses on producing visual effects for commercials and films. Amy works with many top brands, and has produced multiple international broadcast campaigns. She also enjoys producing side projects, such as music videos and independent films. amy@brickyardvfx.com
Shannon Vossler - Shannon Vossler is a Development Producer at Powderhouse Productions in Somerville, with a B.S. in Film and Television and a B.A. in Psychology from Boston University. Breathing life into non-fiction formats and sculpting regular folks into reality superstars is all part of her daily routine, as she creates television series for major cable networks like Animal Planet, Discovery and History. When she’s not writing on her walls or running around a set or locked away in an edit suite, she’s on a mission to streamline the creative process and innovate fun ways to generate groundbreaking new ideas. shannonvossler@womeninfilmvideo.org
Susan Bryant – Susan is a sound recordist with a background in managing educational and sustainability projects in the US and Africa, Susan Bryant joined Frontrunner, a documentary about Afghan women leading their country back from chaos, as Associate Producer. Since then she has jumped into a variety of shoots as the “Scampering Soundie,” joining covered wagon trains, Lakota prairie rides, Coast Guard adventures, girls’ leadership institutes, international womens’ meetings, anti-apartheid theatres, centers for African knowledge, indie narratives and others. She brought DP Gary Griffin’s Listopad project to the Sundance Independent Producers Conference, and is creative producer for Bryan Horch’s Sensational Life and co-producer for Jeff Reichert’s Gerrymandering (Tribeca 2010). susan@womeninfilmvideo.org
Our Advisory Committee
Salma Abu Ayash
Boston Palestine Film Festival
Sabrina Aviles
Iguana Films & Boston Latino International Film Festival
Rhea Becker
Emerson College
Joe Douillette
Fast Forward Youth, ICA
Joan Quinn Eastman
WBZ News Radio
Sandra Forman
Law Offices of Sandra Forman
Arlene Fortunato
Fortunato & Associates
Amy Geller
Chlotrudis Society
Peter Keough
The Phoenix, Chlotrudis Society
Lisa Mattei-McDonald
Plymouth Film Festival
Michele Meek
NewEnglandFilm.com
Charles Merzbacher
BU Department of Film
Patricia Moreno
Film Shack, New England Film & Video Festival
Dawn Morrissey
Magnus Irish Film Festival
Ivy Moylan
Brattle Theatre
Raquel Ortiz
The Partnership, Inc
Carol Patton
Imagine Magazine
Nick Paleologos
Producer, Film Consultant
Adam Roffman
Independent Film Festival of Boston
Lisa Simmons
Color of Film, Roxbury Film Fest
Sam Smiley
AstroDime Transit Authority
Andrea Sutton
MIT Women’s Consortium
Erin Trahan
NewEnglandFilm.com
Bonnie Waltch
Filmmaker’s Collaborative
Susi Walsh
Center for Independent Documentary
Past Board Members include: Angelika Allende-Brisk, Barbara Seidl, Amanda Johnston, Irena Fayngold, Nancy Fleisler, Ann Adelsberger, Sue Dorfman, Cynthia McKeown, Cynthia Close, Christine Dall, Joan Kaufman, Alice D. Bouvrie, Kat Tatlock, Libba Ingram, Barbara Lipski, Elizabeth Gianakos, Amy Geller, Lisa Carey, Deborah Shariff, Melissa Zieve, Mary Benjamin, Alice Hoffman, Janet Krause, Lisa Simmons, Rosalie Fay Barnes, Alexandra de Gonzales, Paulina Villarroel, Fernanda Senatori, Vanessa Vartabedian, Laura Yellen, Michele Davis, amongst others.
Past presidents: Barbara Seidl, Rhea Becker, Priscilla Forance, Christine Sandvik, Kate Berhardt, Valerie Spain, Beth Harrington, Erin Trahan, Lucia Small, Britt Wahlin, Harriet Reisen, amongst others.
