IAN SHORR
Ian Shorr is a graduate of the USC screenwriting program. His produced feature credits include SPLINTER (Magnolia, 2008) , FIGHT…
PANELISTS
Julie Crane
Julie Crane is Director of Locals Administration for SAG-AFTRA and serves as staff liaison for the New Mexico, Colorado and Nevada Locals.…
LISA ZAMBETTI
Panelist Lisa Zambetti, CSA – Lisa currently casts for the long running CBS procedural “Criminal Minds”. Prior to joining that show, she…
CATHY REPOLA
Special Guest, Panelist Western Executive Director – Motion Picture Editors Guild Cathy Repola grew up in an entertainment industry family.…
RENE HAYNES – CSA
Honoree and Panelist RENE HAYNES – Casting Director, is a two-time Emmy Nominee for the TNT/DreamWorks mini-series “Into the West”…
TERRY BORST
Panelist Moderator Terry Borst is a professional screenwriter, Writers Guild of America member, and professor of screenwriting at Santa Fe…
BRUCE MCKENNA
Panelist Bruce C. McKenna is an award winning screenwriter and producer. He wrote on four of the ten episodes of HBO’s…
HUNT BALDWIN
Special Guest, Panelist Executive Producer/Co-Creator/Showrunner Hunt Baldwin grew up in the suburbs of Chicago. He attended Yale university, graduating in 1991,…
MATTHEW LESSALL-CSA
Special Guest, Panelist An active member of BAFTA and Vice-President of the Casting Society of America, Matthew Lessall’s credits include Sundance Film…
MELINDA SNODGRASS
Panelist Melinda Snodgrass studied opera at the Conservatory of Vienna in Austria, graduated from U.N.M. with a degree in history,…
GRACE SANTOS
Diversity Panelist, Odessa film Producer Grace Santos is currently the Director of Business Affairs for Our Alchemy LLC, the largest…
Kirk Ellis
Panelist Kirk Ellis won two Emmys, a WGA Award, a Peabody and the Humanitas Prize for his work as writer…
Hampton Sides
Panelist HAMPTON SIDES, 53, is the author of Ghost Soldiers, Blood and Thunder, Hellhound On His Trail, In the Kingdom of Ice,…
Saneh Boothe
Diversity Panelist – Saneh Boothe On her participation in the Santa Fe Film Festival: “I am so thrilled to be a part…
Linda McDill
Diversity Pandel Moderator President of New Mexico Women In Film 2011-2015. Linda serves the NM Film Industry with Music Supervision…
Mukul Gadde
Diversity Panelist Mukul Gadde is a Filmmaker, Photographer and Aerospace Electronics Engineer. He was born in a small town in…
Belle Allen
Diversity Panelist Before entering the world of filmmaking, Belle enjoyed a long tenure as an IT Project Manager for a…