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Ethan van Thillo
Festival Director
ethan@mediaartscenter.org

Ethan van Thillo has been involved with organizing Latino film festivals since he founded the University of California, Santa Cruz' Chicano Film Festival in 1989. After leaving Santa Cruz, Ethan was Program Assistant for the National Latino Communications Center in Los Angeles for a short while where he assisted in the coordination of a Chicano film series in Mexico City. He then went on to create San Diego's annual Latino film festival, San Diego Latino Film Festival (formerly Cine Estudiantil). In 1995, he was invited by Cine Acción in San Francisco to act as Festival Director, for their Third Annual Festival Cine Latino!, In addition to directing the film festival, Mr. van Thillo has curated over 20 programs at festivals and/or special events in Mexico City, Morelia, Las Cruces, Nuevo Laredo, San Antonio, Tijuana, Sacramento and San Diego. In 1999, Mr. van Thillo brought to San Diego the annual Cine Mexicano: Mexican Film Series. Cine Mexicano will be celebrating its' fifth anniversary in 2003. In 1999, Mr. van Thillo also created the non-profit organization Media Arts Center San Diego, for which he now is its' Executive Director. As Executive Director of MACSD, Mr. van Thillo has continued to develop new programs and services for the San Diego/Tijuana border region. One such program is MACSD's Teen Producers Project, which now educates over 300 middle school to high school youth from across San Diego County, media literacy and video production skills.

Development Associate:
Yvette Valenzuela - (yvette@mediaartscenter.org)

Theater Operations Manager & Print Trafficking Coordinator::
Philip Luque (luqduq@hotmail.com)

Volunteer Coordinator:
Luningning Rangel (volunteer@mediaartscenter.org)

Special Events Coordinator:
Nuvia Guerra (events@mediaartscenter.org)

Publicity / Press Coordinator:
Laura Castañeda (press@mediaartscenter.org)

Program Editor/Writer:
Victor Payan (payansd@aol.com)

Ticket / Will Call Coordinators:
Helen Guzman (tickets@mediaartscenter.org)

Community/Student Outreach Coordinator:
Sarah Clough - outreach@mediaartscenter.org

Book-keeper
Teri Siciliani - TeriMYOB@cox.net

Projectionists:
Jon Miller & Tracy Teale

Graphic Designers:

2004 Film Festival Poster/Brochure/Postcard Designer:
Ronnie Garver is senior graphic designer at New Mexico State University and graphic artist for the New Mexico Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum. He is also a freelance graphic designer for many businesses and organizations based out of Las Cruces, New Mexico. He can be reached at rgarver@nmsu.edu

Film Festival Souvenir Program Designer:
Wesley Quock. Wesley is currently a freelance print and website designer in the San Francisco Bay Area. Mr. Quock can be reached at: wesjenquock@hotmail.com

Film Festival Web Site Designer:
Nic Paget-Clarke, a graphic / Web site designer and publisher of In Motion Magazine <www.inmotionmagazine.com>. He can be contacted at publish@inmotionmagazine.com.

2004 Film Festival Selection Committee
Gonzalo Lopez, Montserrat Perez, Andy Gonzalez, Beth Accomando, Sandra Sarmiento, Victor Payan, Juan Bernal, and Phillip Luque.

MACSD Board of Directors:

Officers:

Paul Espinosa (President)
Espinosa Productions
espinosa@electriciti.com

Mark Burgess (Vice President)
sandiego.com inc.
mark@sandiego.com

Judy Harper (Secretary)
Associate Director
The Synergos Institute
Border Philanthropy Partnership
Judyharp@sbcglobal.net

Gonzalo Lopez (Treasurer)
Director of Marketing and Community Relations
San Diego Metropolitan Transit Development Board (MTDB)
Gonzalo.Lopez@sdmts.com

Members-at-large

Susie Albin-Najera
Business Developement-Hispanic Relations
Fleishman-Hillard, Inc.
albins@fleishman.com

Mark Day, Producer/Director
Day Productions
mday@cts.com

Kristine Diekman, Videographer & Educator
Visual Arts Department
California State University San Marcos
ocho@cox.net

Steve Estrada, FASLA, APA
President
Estrada Land Planning
sestrada@estradalandplan.com

Rich Juarez, Developer
Urban-West Development Consultants
richjuarez@cox.net

Gabriel Martinez , CPA
Martinez & Assoc.
info@amtz.net


Mark Madero , General Manager
CinemaStar Luxury Cinemas
mark_madero60@hotmail.com


Contact Us:

San Diego Latino Film Festival,
c/o Media Arts Center San Diego,
921 25th Street
San Diego, CA 92102

TEL: 619.230.1938
FAX:
619.230.1937
E-mail: sdlff@sdlatinofilm.com
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