Born and raised in the DMV, Stephanie Crawford isis an alumna of Spelman College, where she studied Documentary Filmmaking and Film Studies.Her short documentaries have premiered at festivals nationally and internationally, including,the Academy Award-qualifying Doc Edge Film Festival in New Zealand. Her most recent project, Unpacked wonthe New Orleans Film Society South Pitch in the Student Documentary category.Currently, she works at PBS as a Senior Program Associate.She also has interned at Monkeypaw Productions in their development departmentAt Spelman, she co-founded the AUC Camera ...

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 ...

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 ...