Festival Staff
Founders
Owen Brainard/CFO
Jamie Moses/Outreach
Brent Renaud/Artistic Director
Craig Renaud/Programmer
Co-Acting Executive Directors:
Craig Renaud and Owen Brainard
Assistant Director:
Angie Stoffer
Programmers:
Amman Abbasi
Levi Agee
Faith Chonko
Special Events Director:
Mike Poe
Special Events Coordinator:
Anne Moore
Director of Communications:
Susan Altrui
Communications Coordinator:
Ashli Ahrens
Angel Galloway
Director of Business Development and Sponsor Coordination:
Neil Osam
Education and Youth Program Director:
Casey Sanders
Hospitality Director:
Kelly Ford
Hospitality Coordinators:
Jeffrey Fuell
Sarah Richardson
Volunteer Coordinators:
Rebecca Morrisson
Judy Watts
Hospitality Director:
Kelly Ford
Sarah Richardson
Assistant Shorts Programmer:
Jeff LeMaster
Transportation Coordinator:
Daisy Owings
Social Media Coordinator:
Justin Nickels
Technical Director:
William Stewart
Advisory Board
David E. Allen, Producer & CEO, Kismet Entertainment Group; Mayor, City of Siloam Springs
Sarah Hannsen, Hamptons Film Festival
Vincent Insalaco, Film Producer/Argenta Community Theater
Jeremy Levy, Universal Pictures
Ray McKinnon, Actor, Academy Award Winning Director
Franklin McLarty, Vice President, McLarty Companies
Courtney Pledger, Pledger Productions/Jigsaw Films
Blake Rutherford, Chief of Staff, Arkansas Attorney General’s Office
Skip Rutherford, Dean Clinton School of Public Service
Warwick Sabin, Publisher- Oxford American Magazine
Jerald Tenenbaum, Fridman Law Group, Business, Entertainment and Technology Law
Judy Tenenbaum, Argenta Community Theater/Tenenbaum Foundation