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Our People
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Step up to build understanding between cultures
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BOARD OF DIRECTORS / ANGELS
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Susan Lynton
Executive Director
Susan Lynton was most recently Head of Creative and Strategy for Worldwide Advertising,
Direct, and Interactive for British Telecom's Global Service business having previously
held many senior executive roles in interactive at IBM for seven years. She has written
several screenplays for feature films; produced and written documentaries and public affairs
programming for various networks, including in the last year, five half-hours for CNBC Europe.
In 2003, Susan received a Highest Leaf Award as one of 15 women honored in the United States
for innovation and leadership from the Women's Venture Fund. She has won two CINE Gold Eagles,
an ACE educational award, and was selected as a National Science Foundation Scholar. She has
been on the Board of Directors of New York Women in Film and Television and a secretary/treasurer
on the board of the Coalition of Professional Women in the Arts and Media. She has also served
on an advisory panel for the United States Corporation for Public Broadcasting to create a National
Training Laboratory for Interactive Media, and on an advisory panel for the India-US Sub-commission
on Interactive Media. She was the founder and executive director of another non-profit, Womanspace,
for which she raised funding from foundations, private donors, and the government.
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Richard Dailey
Assistant Director
Richard Dailey is an independent film maker based in Paris and the President of
Afterart Productions (www.afterart.com). He is also editor-in-chief of Afterart
News, a contemporary art journal and blog. His current film projects include a
feature-length documentary about French/American relations as seen from the
French banlieues (NOS STATES), and a political get-out-the-vote music video
involving numerous French artists (NOUS SOMMES TOUS FRANCAIS). His films have
been screened recently at the London Independent Film Festival, the Portobello
Film Festival, the New Filmmakers Film Festival (N.Y.C.), the Cannes Independent
Film Festival, the Africa World Documentary Festival, La Peniche Cinema, the
Jonkoping Film Festival & E.S.R.A. as well as Les Voû tes in Paris. He received
his B.A. from Bennington College, an M.A. from Middlebury College and completed
class work toward a Ph.D. from New York University. He has taught at Saint Ann's
School, New York University, Pratt Institute, Wagner College and the Université de Rouen.
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Aubrey Balkind
Executive Board member
Aubrey Balkind is Chairman of Bemis Balkind, one of the world's leading film marketing
agencies based in Los Angeles. He is also a co-founder of Strat B, an incubator of new
companies that mentors individuals and provides strategic branding for non-profits.
Previously Aubrey was a founder of Frankfurt Balkind, a global branding agency headquartered
in New York, with offices in Los Angeles and San Francisco, purchased during 2002 by
Interpublic/Hill Holliday. As FB's CEO and Chief Creative Strategist, he consulted
with the C-suite of many of the world's leading global entertainment, financial,
technological, and educational institutions including Time Warner, Viacom, Comcast,
Goldman Sachs, IBM, Verizon, Fordham University, The Getty, and the Guggenheim.
He was named Ernst & Young's prestigious "Entrepreneur of the Year," and the creative
teams he has led have won every major national and international industry award as well
as being selected to be part of many permanent museum design collections including the
Smithsonian and New York's Museum of Modern Art. Aubrey has served on the Board of the
Strategic Dialogue Center (together with a number of world leaders including six prior
prime ministers); he has been a speaker at industry events too numerous to mention and
serves as a mentor of Columbia's MBA Entrepreneurship Program.
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Carlos Cashman
Executive Board member
Carlos Cashman has worked with numerous successful start-ups as an executive, founder, investor, and
advisor in the US and abroad. He is currently an active angel investor and involved with several
charities related to promotion of global peace and education. Carlos serves on the Board of
Directors of SecretBuilders.com, an immersive online educational world for children, as well as
Asset Performance Technologies, an advanced data and analytics provider for heavy industrial
equipment he co-founded in 2003. In 2005 he co-founded CourseAdvisor, a leading Search Engine
Marketing firm in the post-secondary education industry which was sold two years later to the
Washington Post. CourseAdvisor was designated one of the fastest growing companies in New England
and voted one of Boston's Best Places to Work in 2007. The first company Carlos founded, Opus360,
went public on the NASDAQ in 2000 and was sold in 2001 to Artemis International.
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Sandrine Butteau
Executive Board member
Sandrine Butteau is the executive director of the Festival des 3 Continents, which takes
place every November in Nantes (France) and which is dedicated to films from Africa, Latino
America and Asia. From 2006 to 2010, she was the audiovisual attaché at the French Embassy
in New York where she promoted french cinema and tv programs in the United States and
encouraged the exchanges between french and american universities's film and media departments.
Before heading to New York City, she worked for 4 year as the french Ministry of Foreign Affairs
where she was in charge of the film office, dedicated to support the diffusion of french cinema
abroad and especially in cultural institutions and universities.
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Fabienne Mitchell-Vigier
Executive Board member
Fabienne Mitchell-Vigier is a translator and reviewer based in the U.K. IBM, BT and
Videology are among her clients. She is also a French teacher at l'Institut Français.
She taught French in the Foreign and Modern Languages Departments of Iona and The College
of New Rochelle, two American colleges, and at the Alliance Française. Prior to that, she
worked in Paris at Draft Worldwide, a marketing and communication group, as an account
manager. Born in France, she lived in New York and currently lives in London.
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Michael Spera
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Michael Spera has worked for 40 years in the film and television industry, first as
a cinematographer and lighting director, then as a producer. One of his creative
series as a producer, "Nepal Land of the Gods," is in the permanent collection of
the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Currently, he is the Vice-President of Kaufman
Astoria Film Studios. He has been the President of Shadow Studios, President of Pro
Camera Rentals, and President of CECO all companies serving the film industry in
New York.
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Adrienne Hamalian
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Adrienne Hamalian has been a professional Script Supervisor in Hollywood, New York and Europe
for the past 30 years. She has worked on award winning motion pictures, and most recently on
the "Informant" with Steven Soderbergh to be released in June 2009. Her latest television
series have included: "Entourage" and the "Office." She has taught script supervising at
UCLA, mentored many aspiring script supervisors and conducted seminars for I.A.T.S.E. Local 871.
She is on the Board of Director's of Blue Palm, A.C.E. a multicultural nonprofit dedicated to
reaching the underserved school children of Los Angeles by delivering multi-modal technique-oriented
arts programs. She produced a documentary film "Journey Without Distance" chronicling the lives of
a group of women battling cancer.
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Michael Marcinelli
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Michael Marcinelli is a digital designer and inventor of innovative interactive
new media applications, winning such renowned awards as: National Educational
Film and Video Awards Festival Finalist, One Show Interactive Bronze Award,
Spirit and Sky Award, and Webmaster Award for excellence in web design and production.
Much of his attention has been applied to the areas of education enhancement and
museum exhibition, and his interactive software can be found in such renowned
museums as: the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Museum of Natural History in New York;
the W5 museum in Belfast, Ireland; and the Canadian Museum of Civilization in Ottawa,
Canada. Michael has been an information architect for Fortune 500 companies, such as
IBM, Fidelity Investments, Target, Mastercard, and others too numerous to mention.
Furthering his mission to develop cutting edge interactive applications which improve communication
and offer vehicles of creative expression not possible without the development of new interfaces
and technologies, his latest application is Rezmay.com,
a new interactive format for storing and distributing resumes, CVs or portfolios.
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Stephen Fritz
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Stephen Fritz spent a decade as co-founder and creative director of Olive,
a brand strategy and advertising interactive agency, with a diverse range of
clients from MTV, Comedy Central, AMC, WE, Noggin, Crunch Fitness and Fresh
Direct to Honeywell, Delloitte & Touche, SmartMoney and Pfizer. He also worked
for agencies, Siegel & Gale and Poppe Tyson as creative director on accounts
for Kodak, Toys R'Us, Merrill Lynch, Lucent, Chase, T.Rowe Price, Merrill Lynch,
Siemens, Valvoline, Lenscrafters, Toshiba, and the 'Got Milk?' campaign.
Stephen's work has won such industry awards as The One Show Merit, The One Show
finalist, BDA Gold Medal Awards, New York Festival finalist, Macromedia's Shocked
Site of the Week, Shocked Site of the Day, WEB AWARD For Excellence and The
International Web Page Awards. His work has also appeared in many industry
publications including: USA Today, Communication Arts, Cre@te Online and Esquire.
Stephen has been published in several books including: "DPI: The Best of Web Design,"
"Idea Revolution," "Identity Solutions: How to Create Effective Brands" and
"The Reinterpretation Project."
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Bonnie Andrikopoulos
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Bonnie Andrikopoulos has worked in the Oil and Gas industry for 30 years. She has
also been a lobbyist for National Organization of Women and was on the Board of
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Colorado for 20 years. She is a results-oriented coach
for Fortune 500 companies and private individuals. She has been involved with
doing micro-financing for underprivileged women in Colorado for the past 12 years.
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Eileen Newmark
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Eileen Newmark has a unique expertise and passion for working with global companies
and non-profit organizations. Her focus is in the design and development of products
and programs for multicultural markets and audiences as demonstrated in her work with:
IBM, the Peace Corps, Boston Council for International Business, the Society for Intercultural
Training, Research and Education (a founding member ), U.S. Department of Education,
WNET public television in NY, United Nations Institute for the Development of Women,
Lucas Arts Entertainment, Paramount Entertainment, Home Box Office (HBO), Wang
Laboratories, Goldman Sachs, Massachusetts Institute for Technology, Houghton Mifflin,
and others in Western Europe, West Africa and the Middle East.
She currently serves on two Boards: WebPlay, an internet and classroom-based theatre-arts
program for primary schools in the UK, NY and Los Angeles; and Common Ground, a nonprofit
organization working to bring digital artists together around the theme of environmental
stewardship and promoting artist collaborations at major events around the world. She
holds a doctorate in Intercultural/International Communications.
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Harriett Levin
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Harriett Levin is Founder and Director of www.snoety.com (short for Secrets No One Ever Told You™), a
blogazine for savvy women who enjoy new ideas and thoughts on living. For the previous 25+ years,
she was a partner at Frankfurt Balkind. At FB she was responsible for business development and led
client liaison and brand strategy teams for companies whose marketing needs had multi-disciplinary
requirements identity, print, video, digital, Internet. Clients ranged from AT&T, Avon, Pitney
Bowes, and Sony to the MTA (Grand Central Station) and New Visions for Public Schools (NYC Dep. of
Education). Harriett's articles have been published in numerous industry publications such as
Communication Arts, Graphic Design: USA, and Direct Marketing News. Harriett is also a co-founder
of Strat B which provides strategic branding for companies and organizations.
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Michel Rivest
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Michel Rivest's early years as a professional diver and underwater bomb disposal expert
led him to a career as underwater cameraman and cinematographer. Specializing in filming
in aquatic environments, he has worked with the equipment originally conceived for Luc
Besson's films such as "The Big Blue" and "Atlantis." He has shot and worked with crews
for underwater shooting for film and television for over twenty years and has conceived
and built his own underwater gear.
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Cabell Smith
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Cabell Smith is a groundbreaker in the motion picture industry as the first
woman technician (sound mixer) hired at NBC-TV on local and national TV news.
She was the first woman in the international Alliance of Theatrical and Stage
Employees (Union Local #52). Cabell helped start the Women's Video Collective,
and was a founding member of New York Women in Film. She was part of a remarkable
delegation of women Shirley MacLaine led to China (shortly after President
Richard Nixon's historic visit) to film the Oscar-nominated feature documentary,
The Other Half of the Sky. She has worked with Mike Wallace, Morley Safer
and Bill Moyers on 60 Minutes, CBS Reports and numerous PBS documentaries.
She worked with Director James Ivory on three films, and Michael Apted, director of
features and documentaries. Her extensive commercial work includes American Express,
Duracell and Nike. Awards - Cine Golden Eagle and a British Emmy
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Pascal-Alex Vincent
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Selected Credits: Film Shorts Final Exams, Far West, Hollywood by Accident, Baby Shark, screened at the Cannes Film Festival and Candy Boy screened at the Cannes Film Festival; Feature Film Give Me Your Hand selected for New Directors/New Films 2009; Teaching Credentials Paris.
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Ken Kwapis
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Selected Credits: Film He's Just Not That Into You, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, License to Wed, Sexual Life, co-director of He Said She Said; TV Pilot for The Office, Pilot for The Larry Sanders Show, Emmy Award-winning, The Bernie Mac Show, Emmy nominee for Malcolm in the Middle as producer/director, and episodes of Freaks and Geeks
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Lenore De Koven
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Selected Credits: Film Taps, Tremors and Time Steps; TV Another World, Texas, author of a book on Directing, Changing Directions; Teaching Credentials NYU, UCLA, and Columbia.
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Steven Fierberg
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Selected Credits: Film - Rage, starring Jude Law, Judi Dench, and Steve Buscemi; Fur, Moulin Rouge additional photography; First 25 TV episodes of Entourage; Teaching Credentials - Maine Media and Photographic Workshops, AFI, American Society of Cinematographers student sessions
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Nick McLean
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Selected Credits: Career spanning 30 years film and TV - Friends, TV seasons 2000-2004; Film - Joey, Staying Alive among other feature films
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PRODUCTION DESIGN/ART DIRECTOR
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Michelle Milosh
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Selected Credits: Film - Radioland Murders, The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam; TV - Dixie Chicks, NBC Special, South Park Live Action; Commericials - Sony, Sara Lee, Nissan, Toyota, Mattel/Barbie among others
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Tony Porter
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Selected Credits: "It's like, You Know," TV situation comedy for Dreamworks, Alf, TV situation comedy, Patchett/Kaufmann Entertainment, Faces of Culture, 28 part Emmy Award winning series; Teaching Credentials - USC School of Cinematic Arts, Multi-camera comedy course, and editing course
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Melody London
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Selected Credits: Film NY I Love You, Director Fatih Akim, Preaching to the Choir, Best Film, Grand Jury Prize American Black Film Festival 2005, Coffee and Cigarettes, Director Jim Jarmusch, Mystery Train Director Jim Jarmusch, Winner Cannes Film Festival Special Mention 1989, Down by Law, Director Jim Jarmusch, Winner: Cannes Film Festival Special Jury Award 1987, Stranger Than Paradise, Director
Winner Cannes D'Or Golden Camera: Cannes Film Festival 1984, Winner Special Jury & Grand Jury Prize: Sundance Film Festival 1985, NY Film Critic Best Film of the Year 1985, Angela, Director Rebecca Miller, Winner Filmmakers Trophy: Sundance Film Festival 1995, Winner Open Palm Award: Gotham Awards 1995, Winner Silver Raven: Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film 1995, Two Small Bodies, Director Beth B,
Best Film: Locarno Film Festival 1993, White Homeland Commano, Director Elizabeth LeCompte, New York Film Festival; Teaching Credentials NYU, SVA, Columbia
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Renee Rosenfeld
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Selected Credits: TV - The West Wing, second season all episodes, Felicity, pilot and two seasons all espisodes; TV movies - Saturday Night Live, commercial satires, Night Sins, Mother of the Bride, A Tangled Web; Feature films: Scout's Honor, Martians Go Home
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Judi Townsend
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Selected Credits: Film - Bedazzled, Goundhog Day, Mighty Joe Young, Addams Family Values; Second Unit Additional Photography - Vanilla Sky, Mission Impossible 2; TV - Twin Peaks; Teaching Credentials - Maine Media Workshops
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Cynnie Troup
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Selected Credits: Film - for Burt Reynolds, Sharky's Machine, Stick; American Gigolo, Moon over Parador, The Goodbye Girl, The Sting II; TV - Columbo, LA LAW, Life with Bonnie, Murder She Wrote; TV movies - The Shadow Box for Paul Newman
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Giles Khan
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Selected Credits: Documentaries: PBS Nova, Human Origins, shot in Ehiopia, Benazir Bhutto, Truman Capote, Batting for Palestine, The Palaces of India for David Attenborough, Birds of North India; Film - The Keeper: Legend of Omar Khayyam, The War Within, A Bahrani Tale, The River Jordan; Teaching Credentials - Maisha Film Workshop, Kampala, Uganda, Nos Do Cinema, Brazil, Maine Film and TV Workshop
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Petur Hliddal
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Selected Credits: Film - Defiance, Charlie Wilson's War, Blades of Glory, You, Me and Dupree, Syriana, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Cider House Rules.
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Lisa Pinero
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Selected Credits: Film - Notorious, Young Americans, Home at the End of the World, Three Kings; TV - In Treatment, HBO season 1, Commander in Chief, Monk, Bones, Heroes, Medium, The OC; Commercials - Adidas, Budwieser, Burger King, Nike, Reebok
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Susan Zwerman
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Selected Credits: Animation Producer, Fat Albert, Around the World in Eighty Days, X-Men, Midsummers's Night Dream, Alien Resurrection; Awards - 1994, Award of Excellence, Parent's Choice, Grammy Award, Video Producer, I'm Fat
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Colin Campbell
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Selected Credits: Film - Charlie Wilson's War, Rent, Live from Baghdad, Mulholland Falls, The Bridges of Madison County, The Pelican Brief, Ghostbusters, The Witches of Eastwick
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Jeffrey Murrell
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Selected Credits: Film - Marley and Me, G-Force, Live Free or Die Hard, You, Me and Dupree, When a Stranger Calls, War of the Worlds, Herbie: Fully Loaded, The Missing, Jerry Maguire, Men in Black, Get Shorty
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Jon Tower
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Selected Credits: The Fantasticks, Sleeping with the Enemy, Exocist III, Bourne Ultimatum, Hollywoodland, Deep Impact, Conair, Ghost and over 1500 commercials, lighting consultant, Cube, Sol LeWitt
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Dick Deats
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Selected Credits: Film - Black Dahlia, National Treasure, The Patriot, Dante's Peak, The Bridges of Madison County, Heaven's Gate, The Seduction of Joe Tynan
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James Shelton
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Selected Credits: Film - The Ugly Truth, Nowhereland, Bewitched, The Fast and the Furious, Mumford, Money Train, Congo
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