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Words from Sundance staffers
What is your name?
Elizabeth Duran.
What is your job at SFF?
Volunteer, Board Support, Executive Director’s Office
What do you do the rest of the year?
I work in the Development Department of the California Film Institute. We present the Mill Valley Film Festival and year-round programming at the Rafael Film Center, a beautifully restored art-deco movie house located in downtown San Rafael. I’m pretty proud of the work we do there; the programming for both is really solid.
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Words from Sundance staffers
What is your name?
Jesse Dubus.
What is your job at the Sundance Film Festival?
Theater Operations Runner.
What do you do the rest of the year?
I work in the Programming Department at SFFS and at the Berkeley Home
Office of the Telluride Film Festival, among some other things.
Why did you decide to start working at SFF?
Last year I had a break in my schedule in January for the first time,
and I decided to see what the fuss was all about.
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Words from Sundance staffers
What is your job at SFF?
I manage the outside of the venue at the Racquet Club Theatre, the festival’s second largest screening venue. Whether you’re filmmaker, programmer, talent, passholder/ticketholder, press member, staff member, or any of the other hundred types of people that come through, I make sure that everything runs smoothly before you get to the front door.
What do you do the rest of the year?
I’m a fine art photographer, creative consultant, FAA-certified safety professional, educator, travel addict/writer/photographer, film festival junkie, and proud Cal alumnus.
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Words from Sundance staffers
What is your name?
Michael Lyons.
What is your job at Sundance Film Festival?
Volunteer with the Works Crew.
What do you do the rest of the year?
I have a business in San Francisco teaching CPR & First Aid.
Photo by Hilary Hart/SFFS.
Words from Sundance staffers
What’s your name?
Jon Ho.
What is your job at Sundance Film Festival?
Egyptian Theatre.Associate Crowd Liaison (ticket counter and filling out ticket info) for 4 years. Worked on radio with Mother and a floater for 1 year
What do you do the rest of the year?
Work in a hospital in Palo Alto part time. I work under a prop master as a set dresser for Independent or feature films, commercials and industrials. I also work as a producer, location manager, unit production manager for shorts, documentaries or Independent features around the Bay Area.
Why did you decide to start working at SFF?
Luck… Here is the story, I was going to school in San Francisco. A classmate was going to volunteer at Sundance and offered me a place to stay at her uncle’s place if I volunteered. Then all of the sudden, she decided not to go, and then I got a call from Sundance a month before the festival because of my radio experience from volunteering at other film festivals in the Bay Area. I learned that if you have a specific skill Sundance is looking for that it helps you land a position.
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Words from Sundance staffers
What is your job at Sundance Film Festival?
Steve: Crowd Liasion at the Egyptian and Terri: Theater Team at the Holiday.
What do you do the rest of the year?
Steve, Professor of Clinical Pharmacy at the University of California San Francisco, Terri, Dental Hygienist.
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Words from Sundance staffers
What is your name?
Jennie-Marie Adler.
What is your job at SFF?
Volunteer Coordinator. Specifically for all Press office, Film office, industry, Feature film, Development, Executive, Accounting, corporate relations, and ticketing volunteers.
What do you do the rest of the year?
I work at other film festivals in the Bay Area.
Why did you decide to start working at Sundance Film Festival?
In college I read Down & Dirty Pictures and started dreaming about one day working at Sundance.
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Words from Sundance staffers
What is your name?
Ilya Tovbis.
What is your job at Sundance Film Festival?
I work in the Film Office as the Shorts Associate (a volunteer position). I help check in shorts filmmakers, get them credentialed and oriented to Park City. We also help them navigate and enjoy their premiere Sundance screening.
What do you do the rest of the year?
I am a seasonal film festival employee at a couple of Bay Area Festivals and a freelance writer.
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Words from Sundance staffers
What is your name?
Ashley Soares.
What is your job at Sundance Film Festival?
Film Office Coordinator, Midnight and NEXT
What do you do the rest of the year?
I suppose you could call me a Festival Carny. Since early 2009 I have been jumping from festival to festival working in departments such as Publicity, Marketing, Film Office or Guest Services. I’m hoping this trend will continue, it’s a whole lot of fun!
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moreCry freedom: "Howl" elicits adoration at the Library in Park City. (Photo courtesy SFF)
The greatest finds of my generation
Susan Gerhard: The harsh glare of the spotlight that brought Howl mixed reviews from critics on opening night of the Sundance Film Festival had melted into a warm glow by Saturday, when the Bay Area-made nonfiction feature played to an adoring audience at Park City’s Library venue. Programmer David Courier’s slip of the tongue as he celebrated "two of the most venerated documentary filmmakers of our time," Robert Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman (Oscar winners for Common Threads and The Times of Harvey Milk), by praising how the two were "making their first fourway—I mean FORAY—into dramatic films" offered an appropriately irreverent frame for a film about Allen Ginsberg’s development as a poet and the fate of his epic "Howl" in a 1957 San Francisco courtroom.
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