2012 Acknowledgements:
This festival would not be possible without the tireless work of the following people:
Staff: Hilary Helstein, Festival Executive Director; David Suissa, President, Rob Eshman, Publisher & Editor-in-Chief, Susan Freudenheim, Executive Editor, Adam Levine, Chief Financial Officer, Lionel Ochoa, Production Director, Jonathan Fong, Artistic Director, all of The Jewish Journal; and David Vu, Festival Assistant.
Volunteers: John Fishel, Honorary Festival Chair; Kim Cavallo & Michele Kaufman, Founding Co-Chairs; Marge Chirchick & Elke Ereshefsky, Festival Co-Chairs; Giselle Dunst, Screening Committee Chair; Sam Goldberg, Outreach Chair; Cori Drasin, Volunteer Committee Chair; Judy Nussenblatt, Synagogue Outreach Chair; Shirley & Phil Sniderman, Community Liaison Co-Chairs; Sam Goldberg, Outreach Committee; Roger Blonder, Todd Felderstein, Jim Ruxin, jTeen LA Program Liaisons; Marge Chirchick, Elke Ereshefsky, Giselle Dunst, Opening Night Committee; Chana & Phil Bell, Gabriela Bohm, Abraham & Chedy Kleiman, Brenda Ness, Sharon Rennert, Shirley & Phil Sniderman, Suzannah Warlick, Screening Committee; Todd Felderstein, Media Arts; Rob Allen, Cantor Kenny Ellis, Shirlie Feldman, Rabbi Myrna Matza, Candy Mintz, Evelyn Steinberg, Daniel Stewart and Kerry Welland, Additional committee.
Additional Thanks: Marvin Paige, Ed Lozzi, Andy Gold, Phil Liff-Grieff, Rabbi Glenn Karonsky, Debra Bronow & Elenna King of the BJE, Greg Krentzman of JVS, Rob Adler Peckerar, Jason Warlick, Alice Brauner, Bill Harris, Rick Pollard, Steve Nafshun, Vivian Alberts, Naomi Pfefferman-Magid, Tom Tugend, Danielle Berrin, Rabbi David Wolpe, Rabbi David Baron, Rabbi Karen Bender, Susan Dean, Cantor Nate Lam, David Dorfman, Jocelyn Orloff & Ilana Bostwick of ATID, Mike Broggie & Jeremy Moseley, Greg Laemmle, Samara Hutman, Andra Kolega of AMC, Margit Kleinman of the Goethe Institut, Michael Ott of the German Consulate, Judith Galilee-Metzer & Atar Dekel of the Consulate General of Israel, Andreas Lins of the Austrian Consulate, Michel Schneider & Allison Lee of AJWS, Janet Gilmore, Nancy Bell, Brian Greene, Larry Anklewicz of Toronto JFF, Athena Novak of Wholly Rollers, Udy Epstein, Joel Goldman of ELS, Scott Widitor, and the patient families of our dedicated volunteers.
