Our BOARD MEMBERS are the heart and soul of Bay Area Women in Film & Media. They orchestrate our Monthly Members Event, Community Co-Presentations, handle all our marketing efforts and bring inspiration into our community! Each Board Director has made a two (2) year commitment to BAWFIM and agrees to attend 12 monthly Work Meetings to make it all happen. If you are a current member and interested in participating in the BAWIFM Board, please come to our next general monthly event and introduce yourself to one of our Board members at the BAWIFM Registration Table. We’d love to hear your story of inspiration and how you’d like to get involved!
2010 BOARD OF DIRECTORS:
Simone Nelson is a producer and filmmaker as well as a marketing, PR, distribution and creative & business development consultant for film, digital media and live performance projects and events. She has worked for and with many renowned international cultural organizations, producers and filmmakers on both sides of the Atlantic including: San Francisco Opera, Yale Repertory Theatre/Yale School of Drama, The International Festival of Arts & Ideas, San Francisco’s Magic Theatre, London’s famed Royal Court and Shakespeare Globe Theatres, award winning filmmaker Rebecca Miller, actor Daniel Day-Lewis, playwright Arthur Miller, and the former Chair of Disney Studios & Disney Theatricals and Producer of Broadway’s Lion King, Peter Schneider. Simone has worked in production, distribution, marketing, public relations and development for several media arts and film companies including: Forensic Films, Film Arts Foundation, the Mill Valley Film Festival/California Film Institute and the Global Film Initiative. She curated and produced the sold out 2006-07 True Stories Documentary Film Series at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and served as a Juror for the Arab Film Festival. Simone is currently working on several media and film projects including: serving as Executive Producer for Xenia Media; Co-Producer on the new award winning documentary CITY OF BORDERS which premiered at the 2009 Berlin Film Festival; as a Producer on a new narrative feature film, SALTWATER; co-authoring a new book about online film distribution; and is on the Advisory Board of the San Francisco Green Film Festival and Bali International Social Change Film Festival. She is also a trained actor, is on the Faculty in the Digital Film and Video Production Program at the Art Institute of California-San Francisco, has a BS in Theater from Northwestern University and attended the MFA Producing Program at Yale University School of Drama.
Ondine Kilker has been working as a director, editor and producer for the past 9 years. She has also been a film reviewer, film fest worker and now a principal in the production company Kisser Productions. Her film experience includes work with: Out & Equal Workplace Advocates, The Oakland Raiders, ODC Dance Company and E*Trade. Ondine volunteers with many arts and community development agencies and has a BFA in Graphic and Interactive Communication from the Ringling School of Art and Design. When not producing films & videos, she is Production Manager for Curve Magazine, the best-selling lesbian magazine.
Windy Borman, the Creative Director of D.V.A. Productions, has over 8 years of professional experience in film, video, event planning, theatre, and the non-profit sector. As an independent filmmaker, Windy has produced and directed promotional videos, films, and documentaries. She is an experienced researcher, story developer, screenwriter, director, and producer with field and studio experience on large- and small-scale productions in the United States, England, Ghana and Thailand. From 2001-2003, Windy served as the Performing Arts Coordinator for the University of Oregon Cultural Forum, where she negotiated contracts and promoted performances for Margaret Cho and Maya Angelou and directed and produced "The Vagina Monologues". From 2003-2005 she dedicated two years to Teach For America, where she taught drama and dance in the South Bronx. She currently lives and works in San Francisco, CA.
Rachel is committed to supporting independent filmmakers and increasing exhibition opportunities for their work, as well as building audiences for documentary film - particularly around environmental and sustainability issues. She has over thirteen years experience in film exhibition and distribution including work for the Edinburgh, London and San Francisco International Film Festivals, L.A. film studios, and U.K. independent film organizations. From 2007-2009, she was Festival Director for the San Francisco Ocean Film Festival, the first and largest showcase for ocean related films in North America. Rachel recently founded the San Francisco Green Film Festival, to take place in Spring 2011 and provide a dynamic forum for films and discussions around conservation, activism, science and technology.
Rachel has a Masters degree in Cinema & Television from the British Film Institute. She has been a member of BAFTA since 2000, the Pleiades Network and TEDxSF since 2010, and have served as Board Treasurer for Bay Area Women in Film & Media since 2008.
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Jill Brooke has been a fixture of the film festival scene in the Bay Area for over 20 years. Jill has worked for film festivals national and international. Starting as a volunteer at the Mill Valley Film Festival (MVFF) in 1988, Jill has worked as a theater manager, hospitality coordinator, film-maker liaison, and film runner, and, for 2 years was the Theater Operations Coordinator for MVFF. Other film festival responsibilities have included soliciting donations, writing programs notes, managing volunteers and securing sponsorship. In 2009, Jill has already worked for SF IndieFest, San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival, San Francisco International Film Festival and Frameline. Earlier in her career, Jill worked for a year as a production assistant on many commercials and film shoots in the Bay Area and studied film editing at San Francisco State University. More recently, she helped lead filmmaking workshops for children, which was a wonderful way to bring together her two passionsundefinedteaching and working with kids. She enjoys working in the collaborative world of festivals and film and is blessed to live in such a film-rich culture!
Skye Christensen has successfully worked in television production, freelanced as an independent producer/director and spearheaded various commercial and non-profit video web projects. She is currently at the post-production stage of producing/directing a feature length dance documentary “Who is Paco Gomes?” projected to hit film festivals in 2009. In addition to her accomplishments in production, Skye’s background has always been deeply rooted in education. With a B.A. from UC Berkeley’s Film Studies program and a graduate degree from San Francisco State University’s Broadcast and Electronic Communication Arts program, Skye has since come to share her professional expertise with others as a Lecturer at various Bay Area Colleges. While Skye has been instructing at the college level for the past few years, she has enjoyed teaching art to youth for over a decade. Applying her talents in media and education to manage a non-profit program, TILT, dedicated to serving underrepresented youth through media literacy principles and video production, Skye developed programming that both excites funders, participating youth organizations, families and youth participants alike. At the helm of TILT, Skye’s work coincided with the Ninth Street Independent Film Center, providing opportunities for collaboration with media non-profits and festivals. Skye’s recent promotion to Managing Director of Ninth Street is representative of her strong commitment to support independent film/video production. Given the diverse social landscapes of the Bay Area, Skye actively anticipates media empowering communities for generations to come.
Victoria R. Fong is a native San Franciscan and proud to be a part of the BAWIFM community. Victoria is the Facility and Operations Manager at the Community Media Center of Marin, the Public, Education and Government access television station for Marin County. Victoria began her involvement with community media while attending the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she majored in Community Studies with an emphasis in Social Documentation. There she produced numerous video documentaries with topics ranging from multiracial identity to journalistic integrity and used Santa Cruz's local community television’s resources to gain additional access to production equipment. While at UCSC, Victoria interned with Access SF in 2004 (public access television for San Francisco) and later went on to work in membership services and development at Berkeley Community Media (PEG access television for the city of Berkeley) from 2006-2009. Feel free to contact Victoria with any questions regarding membership!
Ambika Jain is a bay-area based mediamaker and has a background in film production and cinema studies. She attended San Francisco State University and formerly worked in the Development department of the Film Arts Foundation. While at Film Arts Foundation, she developed the skills of fundraising from individual donors and writing grants, and she also programmed and curated a small documentary screening series called "True Stories." Currently, Ambika works as a corporate media producer and videographer in San Francisco. She is also producing, directing, and shooting many short-format films of her own, and finishing post-production on a collaborative feature project. She is proud to contribute to the growth and progress of bay-area media arts non-profits.
Caroline Ocampo has 20 years of experience in marketing communications, creative services, public and cultural affairs, media and international broadcasting. She has designed strategic marketing programs for corporations, government agencies, educational institutions and NGO’s in the U.S., Mexico, Canada, Japan and the Philippines. Her intercultural work includes the development of programs targeting the Asian, Latino and African American markets. Media accomplishments include producing all aspects of production for live/taped radio and television news shows for international language stations. She also directed media affairs programs for foreign service overseas offices in various metropolitan cities. Campaigns have received coverage from major media outlets such as SF Chronicle, SJ Mercury News, LA Times, NY Times, CNN, BBC and Good Morning America. Caroline has won numerous awards: West Coast Art Director’s Show (Best Annual Reports and Brochures), International Retailer Award for Marketing, American Heart Association’s Communications Awards for Ethnic Media and Koop Award for Journalism, California Redevelopment Award for Destination Marketing and Spanish Language Addy.
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