Andrea Passafiume is a veteran film programmer, curator and writer based in the Washington, D.C. Metro area. She is currently an Associate Programmer of documentary features for the Tribeca Film Festival, Lead Programmer for the Seattle Deaf Film Festival, documentary features Screener for Sundance, and member of the Screening Committee for DC/DOX. Previous Programming positions include Head Programmer of AFI Docs, Programming Associate for the Athena Film Festival, and member of the Screening Committees for DOC NYC and Camden International Film Festival. Andrea has served as a judge for the ...

Areeb Zuaiter is a multinational filmmaker whose work focuses on art, identity, and social issues. She holds an MA in Film and Video from American University. Zuaiter had previously worked at the Associated Press, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, and the Royal Film Commission - Jordan. She also taught History of Documentary, Film Production and Visual Literacy at the American University and Howard University. Her short films and thesis projects have been nominated and awarded in festivals around the world. Zuaiter had recently finalized her upcoming short narrative film. ...

Jolin Crofts is the co-founder of the online streaming channel and the film festival TheFlickFest. She has been Dir of Submissions and Programming for various film festivals. She realized great independent films are hardly screened or watched and get lost in the large bucket of under-marketed and under-valued independent films. Her solution was to provide a platform to provide free marketing, publicity and viewing platform for well deserved pool of independent films, hence TheFlickFest.com was born. She is currently striving to establish an entity to provide grants and expand the services to ...