Executive Producer Level Membership ($1500)

Doug Bolin
Megyn Busse
Donald Mason & Desmond Ng
Eugene & Steven Sepulveda
Mark Webb

Producer Level Membership ($1020)

Dana Markus-Wolf & Susan Post
Steve Guzzo
Tracy Peck & Nolan Andre
Ram Rangel
Jamie Southerland & Ainge Lin
Sarah Tennyson

Fan Level Membership ($300)

Virginia Alvarez
Sarah Beckley
Sandra Bravo
Dustin Dwiggins
Jamie Eaton
Richard Eisenhour
Laura Gadd
Iain Gray
Walter Hall
Craig Hella-Johnson
Ann Hudspeth
Chase Kincannon
Mario Leyva
Amber Lackey

BEARS REBECCA FONTE

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR -- Bears Rebecca Fonté is a transgender filmmaker, festival programmer, and journalist. She founded Other Worlds Film Festival after two years as the Director of Programming for Austin Film Festival. Her SciFi shorts ROADSIDE ASSISTANCE, PRENATAL, and THE SECRET KEEPER have played 150+ festivals including Fantasia, SciFi London, Boston SciFi, FilmQuest, Austin Film Festival and Dances With Films. Her LGBTQIA Horror short CONVERSION THERAPIST made is world premiere at Inside Out in Toronto and US Premiere at aGLIFF. Her feature thriller iCRIME, which she wrote and directed, was released on DVD, VOD and streaming by Breaking Glass/Vicious Circle Films in 2011. Bears Rebecca also was one of the producers on the Sundance Jury-Award Winning short THE PROCEDURE. She has written for Hammer to Nail and AMFM Magazine since 2014, covering independent film, including regular coverage of Sundance, SXSW, Fantasia, and Fantastic Fest. Prior to arriving in Austin, she self-produced two web-series which were seen by a combined ten million viewers, wrote coverage for independent producers and coverage services in LA and placed in nearly every single screenwriting contest out there including Screenwriter’s Expo, Final Draft Big Break, Page International, Story Pros and Austin Film Festival. Bears Rebecca received her BA from Carleton College in British Studies and Theatre Studies and a MFA in Directing from Indiana University and has directed over forty plays, including the Austin Critics Table nominee Corpus Christi, and the Austin Shakespeare Festival's Complete Works of Shakspeare Abridged.

MARSHA MILAM

Grant Facilitator -- Marsha Milam is a self-professed serial entrepreneur. Making magic is her calling and she loves to create something out of nothing. She is the originator of Chuy’s Children Giving to Children Parade, which collects toys for Austin Police Department’s Blue Santa program. Marsha is also one of the co-founders of the Austin Film Festival, the first festival to recognize the writer’s contribution to the film and television industry. She has also produced countless music shows across Texas entertaining more than 100,000 fans a year with her free live music concert series. Most recently, after a visit to the Kentuncky bourbon trail, founded what is now Milam & Greene Whiskeys.

TODD HOGAN

PRESIDENT -- Todd Hogan has worked in media marketing and ad sales for over two decades and has been a lifelong, active supporter of the nonprofit community.

Todd has been an executive for top media companies including Clear Channel Communications, Entercom Communications, Border Media, and Univision where he has a track record of success in creating unique, results-oriented marketing solutions for multiple radio and television brands and their clients. He combined his knowledge of general market media with his passion for Intercultural communication to become a leader in the vibrant Hispanic and multicultural marketing media markets. In addition to serving on the Board of Directors and Communications Committee for Con Mi MADRE, he is also the Chair of the Marketing Committee for Greater Austin Chamber's Education Leadership Council. He has been an active ally for dozens of other organizations during his career including Alliance for Women In Media, Salvation Army of Austin, Austin Partners In Education, and Austin Child Guidance Center.

Lois Rodriguez

VICE PRESIDENT -- Lois Rodriguez is the Strategic Partnership Manager at Texas Highways Magazine and uses her experience at both the magazine and TxDOT’s Travel Information Division to build stronger relationships in Texas’ tourism industry. She takes a lead in making measureable progress in the Travel Information Division’s Diversity & Inclusion effotrs, most notably with guided efforts to ensure the faces and stories of the magazine relfect the true diverse population of Texas. Lois was the recipient of the Lone Star Award in 2021. She lives in South Austin and loves to garden, bake, and take care of her cats and the beautiful fish pond in her backyard.

Bears Rebecca Fonté - Artistic Director

Wendy K. Callier - Assistant Programmer

Austin King - Assistant Programmer

Be Allatt - Screener

Jamie Corum - Screener

Deborah Davison - Screener

Janny Hanna-Chambers - Screener

Joy Ruth - Screener