2024 Acknowledgements:
This festival would not be possible without the tireless work of the following people:
Staff and Board:
Hilary Helstein, Festival Executive Director; Adam Levine, Treasurer & Secretary; John Fishel, Honorary Festival Chair & Board Member; Roz Wolf PR, Publicity & Programming, Dan Kacvinski, Graphic Artist; Andrea Alonso, Bookkeeper; Roxana Pourshalimi, Assistant.
Volunteers:
Kim Cavallo & Michele Kaufman, Founding Co-Chairs; Marge Chirchick & Elke Ereshefsky, Festival Co-Chairs; Larry Anklewicz, Programming Consultant; Shirley & Phil Sniderman, Community Liaisons; Elaine Seltzer, Chair of Volunteer Committee; Regina Safdie, Gay Elfand, Volunteer Coordinators; Marla Rubin, Hospitality; Candy Mintz, Jennifer Kutner, Gay & Ken Elfand, Nancy Glassberg, Regina Safdie, Mike Tauber, Lulu Fairman, Sharon Baumgold, General Committee; Todd Felderstein, Ira Goldberg, Media Arts; Roxana Pourshalimi, Social Media.
Additional Thanks:
Steven Singer, Carol Koransky and Becky Sobelman-Stern at Jewish Federation Los Angeles, Magen Am,Lorraine Sais and Mark Katrikh at Museum of Tolerance, Rabbi David Baron and Kasey Carter at Temple of the Arts, The City of Beverly Hills and Mayor Sharona Nazarian and Vice Mayor John Mirisch, Greg Laemmle and staff, Neil Friedman, Heidi Oshin & Ben Saari of Menemsha Films, 7th Art Releasing, Panorama Films, Brigit Grant of “Midas Man”, Martin Lewis, Richard Foos, Glenn Kirschbaum, Stan Taffel, Claudia Gordon and Friedel Schmoranzer of Villa Aurora/Thomas Mann House, Adeena Bleich of JAHM, JQ International, Carolyn Ben Natan and Yael Eini of the Consulate General of Israel, The Consulate General of Germany, Rosalee Devine, Specialty Cellars, David Suissa, Jonathan Fong, Brian Fishbach, Ryan Torok, and Ayala Or-El of Jewish Journal, and Hudson Helstein for his flexibility and help!
