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Our Team
50 years COMBINED nonprofit GOVERNANCE experience
Thomas ethan harris
Founder
Thomas Ethan Harris is the Co-Founder of the highly regarded Los Angeles Film Festival (LAFF) where he served as Director of Programming from 1995-2004. Mr. Harris has also served as Director Of Programming at many other film festivals including the Palm Springs International Short Film Festival. Since 2003, Mr. Harris has owned and operated his own successful Los Angeles-based film consulting business which works closely with a variety of film artists and producers from all over the United States and the international film community in all aspects of screenwriting, film direction, visual and aural design and film festival planning. More recently, Thomas expanded his focus to become an educator and thinker of contemporary film at his own Film Seminar series (2007 - 2019) at the acclaimed 501(c)3 film non-profit The American Cinematheque and by serving as a professor of film theory and screenwriting Chapman University (2016 - 2022) - a Top 5 North American film school.
Executive Director
amanda sweikow
Amanda Sweikow is a cinema-maker, nonprofit leader, curator, and community builder with decades of experience supporting filmmakers and building programs around independent cinema. As Executive Director of Filmmakers Alliance, she oversaw organizational operations, programming, partnerships, communications, fiscal sponsorship, grants, filmmaker development, and community initiatives, working directly with hundreds of filmmakers and shepherding projects from development through production. Her broader career spans film production, artist education, curation, writing, and directing, giving her a deep understanding of both the creative process and the infrastructure artists need to sustain their work. As co-founder and Executive Director of I Am Cinema, Amanda brings that experience to building a new kind of cinematic culture—one centered on personal vision, artistic risk, craft, community, and meaningful connection between artists and audiences.