Committee

James A. Nadeau, Executive Director.

EMAIL: nadeau@bostonlgbtfilmfest.org

James Nadeau has been involved with the film festival since 2000. He has programmed film and video at the Rhode Island International Film Festival, the Provincetown International Film Festival, the Brattle Theatre, and galleries throughout the Boston area. He was a contributing editor to the Boston-based art zine Big, Red, and Shiny from 2005 to 2010. He is a graduate of the Comparative Media Studies department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He completed his undergraduate studies at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston/Tufts University.

His video work has been screened internationally, most recently in the Sguardi Sonori Festival of Media and Time Based Art in Rome, Italy, and he has presented papers on media and film at conferences throughout the United States. In 2009 he was a recipient of an Asian Cultural Council travel grant, which enabled him to meet with artists and curators working in New Media in Seoul, Beijing, and Singapore.

He is a technical instructor on film in the Literature Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is currently editing his graduate thesis on Nam June Paik and early video art for consideration by several publishers. His interview with filmmaker Guy Maddin was included in the anthology Guy Maddin: Interviews published in 2010 by the University of Mississippi Press.

Kelly M. May, Managing Director

EMAIL: kellymay@bostonlgbtfilmfest.org

Kelly May is the Managing Director of the Boston LGBT Film Festival. In conjunction with the executive director and director of communications, Kelly is responsible for the print and online advertising, student development, and sponsorship relations. She joined the film festival in spring 2011.

Kelly is also an Executive Marketing Manager at Pearson Education, where she is the Social Sciences & Arts eMarketing strategist and markets a best-selling product line. In addition to marketing, Kelly has also been an acquisitions editor, responsible for product development and market development.

She has been in Boston since 2002 and has always been active in community building, through her work with neighborhood associations, the Boston Public Library, and volunteering.

Amit Dixit, Communications Director

EMAIL: dixit@bostonlgbtfilmfest.org

Amit works on promotion and event coordination for the festival and is on the MASALA (Massachusetts Area South Asian Lambda Association) Steering Committee along with serving on the board of The History Project and the Gay & Lesbian Advocates and Defenders (GLAD).

Charlotte Robinson, Media Director

EMAIL: mediadirector@bostonlgbtfilmfest.org

Charlotte Robinson, Emmy Award Winning, Producer/Director, is the Media Director of the Boston LGBT Film Festival. All media inquiries, interview requests, or related questions can be directed to her.

She is the creator of OUTTAKEonline. Charlotte began her career in Boston at WGBH-TV and then joined the staff of WCVB-TV, where she served for four years.

Charlotte then joined CBS Sports, where she earned the Emmy Award for her accomplishments on NFL-Today. While at CBS Sports she became an established music producer for NFL-Today and the U.S. Open. Since leaving CBS Inc., her corporate clients include: ABC News, Time Warner, Dupont, Sony, Condé Nast Publications as well as numerous music videos for MTV.

Charlotte has served as a Blue Ribbon Panelist for the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences News and Documentary and Daytime Emmy Awards. Her professional contribution to the process in choosing the best in News and Documentaries has been in Background News Analysis and best in Daytime in the Outstanding Talk Show category.

Website: http://www.outtakeonline.com/

Shawn Cotter, Operations/Print Traffic

Shawn Cotter joined the film festival in 2011. He served as location manager at the Brattle Theatre and was also responsible for print trafficking. He attended the University of Massachusetts/Amherst from 1989-1993 finishing with a Certificate in Film Studies.

He has been working in Super8 for over two decades. Within the past several years his work has explored the realm of hand-processing and its manipulation of chemistry, finding the vulnerability of the medium an exciting challange. His films have screened in several film festivals including the 2009 and 2011 Boston LGBT Film Festivals,and TIE: The International Experimental Cinema Explosion.

He is currently in the process of opening a clothing boutique and gallery space in Malden, MA, where he lives with his husband and 4 cats.

Programming Team:

Ross Tipograph, Programmer

Ross Tipograph the divides his time between the Boston LGBT Film Fest and his B.A. degree in Screenwriting at Emerson College. He recently completed a workshop under writer/producer Jim Taylor (The Descendants) and is very excited to work as film programmer and as a filmmaker liaison at the 2012 Festival, his second LGBT fest. Elsewhere in Boston, Ross lends his time to the Coolidge Corner Theater non-profit arthouse in Brookline, and the Boston Living Center.

Ross is living proof of the IT GETS BETTER campaign by graduating from his high school newspaper movie reviewer position to his involvement at the internet's favorite gay horror blog, CampBlood.org. Oh, the places we go!

Kate Krosschell, European Shorts/Features Programmer

Kate screens and programs the festival's European submissions. When not seeing films for the festival, she is also working on her Master's Degree in Film Studies at the University of Copenhagen. Prior to the Boston LGBT Film Festival, Kate served on the programming committee at the European Short Film Festival in Brest, France and interned at CPH:DOX, Copenhagen's International Documentary Festival. A native Bostonian with the travel bug, Kate speaks French and Danish.

Associate Programmers: Bug Davidson, Patrick Faloon, Adrienne Katz, Kevin Langston, Rick McCarthy.