The Something Wicked Film Festival is a year in the making
with a lot of hard working people dedicating their time and volunteering for
the three days of the event. As such, I
know that a lot of the time these people go unrecognized, but they are the true
backbone and grease that keeps the wheels of the festival spinning from year to
year and therefore I’d like to take just a few moments to name some of the key
players in the SWFF family.
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| Howard Carter |
First off is my Co-Festival Director Howard Carter. In addition to assisting me with the
organization of the event Carter is the one responsible for the Opening Night
Filmmaker reception. I’m always so busy
just getting the regular business stuff done and Carter is there to make sure
all our Sponsors and Film-makers have a good time at the Opening Night Reception. He also happens to make sure I keep my
sanity throughout the year.
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| Travis Joseph |
Next is our Festival Technical Supervisor Travis
Joseph. Even though he’s stepped down this
year from being the main person responsible for all technical aspects of the
festival, he remained on board to help us out on the Awards Ceremony and other
things since he wasn’t available during the actual event this year. He’s also been instrumental in helping us
through the years with filming and editing many of the festival’s video
content.
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| Ted Rubin |
Ted Rubin is also a key member of our family. For the last three years he has dedicated
himself as the Website Designer for the film festival. He’s been with us since the very beginning
and has put his artistic talents on the pages of the website, so, we hope you
enjoy.
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| Jim Adams |
Jim Adams has been “unofficially” with us all three years
and it wasn’t until this year that we gave him the title of Festival Panel
Moderator. The Panel Discussion are such
a huge part of the SWFF experience that we’re ecstatic that Adams has joined
us.
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| Byron C. Erwin |
Byron C. Erwin (Graphic Designer) has also been a huge contributor
to our SWFF as he has designed all three years of our amazing festival posters! Each year he amazes all of us with his new
designs that we use the entire year to advertise and promote our event.
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| Laura Blatterman |
Last year we also added two more members to our team Tycoa
Noble and Laura Blatterman, as our Festival Event Manager/Vendor Sales and
Outreach Manager, respectfully. We are
glad to have them aboard as they will continue to help us grow year-by-year.
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| Whitney Black |
I want to take a few moments to thank some of the people
that are not part of our Main Team but are still just as important. Our Red Carpet Host this year was Barbara
Romero who was also one of our two Awards Ceremony Hosts this year; Whitney
Black returned this year as our second Awards Ceremony Host (last year was her
first year with us). These actresses did
an amazing job this year and we hope they’ll be back with us again.
Another major contribution to this year’s event is all the amazing
people that made up this year’s Jury Members!
This included the film-makers Anne McCarthy, Dave R. Watkins, Phillip
Wray, David Young, Nate Hill, Chris Simoes, Heather Place, Gina Partee, Joshua
Haire, Evan Avers, and Sam Wilson. This
year’s Jury viewed an amazing number of submissions and were responsible for
this year’s Award Recipients! Without
their help I would have had a lot of films to view on my own.
There are other volunteer and support staff that help us out
each year and continue to make each year of SWFF better than the one
before. Without the help of everyone,
SWFF would not be possible and I’m proud to include them as part of our growing
family. We hope that everyone enjoyed
this year’s event and look forward to bringing you even more for 2019!
