Tanya De Angelis is an Arizona native who now resides in Salt Lake City, where she leads the Sundance Institute Archives & Collection, which preserves and shares the rich history of Sundance Institute and the work of its supported artists. The Archives &...
Jeff Yanc is currently the Program Director at The Loft Cinema and co-director of the annual Loft Film Fest. He holds B.A. and M.A. degrees in Media Arts from the University of Arizona, where he also served as an adjunct professor in film history. His writing on...
Six-time Peabody Award winner and University of Arizona School of Theatre, Film & Television alumnus Paul Pennolino is currently directing his ninth season of HBO’s multi award winning LAST WEEK TONIGHT WITH JOHN OLIVER. Prior to this, from 2000 – 2021 Paul...
Nicholas Snell (BFA, 2014) is a first generation queer hapa writer. In 2018 he was a semi-finalist for Screencraft’s 5th Annual Screenwriting Fellowship. Most recently, he was a semi-finalist in the 2019 Outfest Screenwiting Lab as well as a semi-finalist for...
Rob Gonzalez hails from the Rocky Mountains of Idaho where he grew up white water rafting, skiing, and re-watching Jurassic Park regularly. He originally joined Austin Film Festival immediately upon moving to Austin in 2016 in order to intern in the AFF Film...
