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Danny Berish

Director, Arthur Erickson: Beauty Between the Lines

Q&A - Arthur Erickson: Beauty Between the Lines

Robin Donaldson

Founding Partner, Donaldson + Partners

Q&A - This Is Not A House

Valentina Ganeva

Director, Schindler Space Architect

Q&A - Schindler Space Architect

Ryan Mah

Director, Arthur Erickson: Beauty Between the Lines

Director, Arthur Erickson: Beauty Between the Lines

Yael Melamede

Director, Ada – My Mother the Architect

Q&A - Ada – My Mother the Architect

Gina Angelone

Director, Sitting Still

Q&A - Sitting Still

Jim Venturi

Director, Stardust: The Story of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown

Q&A - Stardust: The Story of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown

Akira Boch

Director

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Boris Bertram

Architect

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Jane Chun

Architect

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DeWitt Davis

Technical Director

DeWitt Davis has been working with film and cinema presentation for 15 Years+. He is the Technical Director of film festivals including the Miami Film Festival, Montclair Film and DOCNYC. He works to restore films with the nonprofit IndieCollect and taught classes in motion picture film for Kodak.

Ian Stewart

Box Office Manager

Ian Stewart is an event and ticketing specialist in the music and film festival industry. Hailing from GA, he has traveled around the US and internationally to deliver exquisite service and lasting experiences. He has worked with various companies like Netflix, HBO, SFFILM, and SXSW to name a few.

Scott Albers

Creative Consultant

Scott is a communications specialist and copywriter who has helped launch dozens of successful products and services for blue chip companies - Citi, Chase, Visa, MasterCard and UBS Wealth Management, to name a few.

Higgin Ko

Webmaster

Higgin is the web developer / webmaster of the Architecture and Design Film Festival. He has been supporting Mr. Bergman's projects including Pacific Rim Parks and The Glass House Play. He has developed numerous commercial websites, non-profit organizations sites, and social network sites. He has worked with every web and multimedia technology such as HTML, DHTML, CSS, XML, PHP, JavaScript, Ajax, Flash, web broadcasting, etc. He is specialized in developing dynamic and interactive web pages. Lately, he's been developing websites with "Mobile First" design concept using responsive/adaptive framework and Javascript libraries.

Montgomery Mauro

ADFF:LA Operations Manager

Montgomery Mauro is an Actor, Producer, and Director in the Los Angeles area. As a Festival Venue Manager, he has worked on other major festivals such as Tribeca Film Festival and UCB's Del Close Marathon Comedy Festival. Montgomery is the co-founder of No2Mauro Productions, an independent film company that recently released its first feature film, Exposure 36 (2022). Under the No2Mauro banner, Montgomery has also produced multiple theatrical productions and a series with a live audience.

Emma Bergman

Festival Coordinator

Emma Bergman is a multimedia artist and producer based in Brooklyn, NY.

Fred Schmidt-Arenales

Technical Director

Fred Schmidt-Arenales is an artist, filmmaker. His projects attempt to bring awareness to unconscious processes on the individual and group level. He has presented films, installations, and performances internationally at venues including SculptureCenter and Abrons Arts Center, New York; Links Hall, Chicago; The Darling Foundry, Montreal; LightBox and The Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; The Museum of Fine Arts, and FotoFest Houston, Künstlerhaus Halle für Kunst und Medien, Graz, and Kunsthalle, Vienna. Fred is a 2022-23 Core fellow at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston.