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BOARD OF DIRECTORS

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!


2011 BOARD OF DIRECTORS:
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JILL BROOKE

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!


AMBIKA JAIN

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.

 


JENNIFER KINCAID

Jennifer Kincaid is an artist, entrepreneur, and mediamaker. The first phase of her career was spent in graphic design and desktop publishing, she graduated from Humboldt State University with degrees in Finance and Art History in 2008. She has an active record in community service, and recently served four years on the Eureka Art and Culture Commission. Her art practice focuses on large-scale participation works and she recently adapted one of her live audience-interactive performances for electronics-based audiences on the web, which she launched at a recent academic conference in Milan, Italy. Jennifer relocated to San Francisco with her husband, a San Francisco native, in 2007.








































































DANIELA RIBLE

Daniela Rible has 14 years of experience in international broadcasting, journalism, film, video and in the non-profit sector. Daniela began her media career while living in Moscow, Russia. There she worked for NBC News Moscow Bureau, The Moscow Times and on the production for YANKS FOR STALIN, which aired on the History Channel's Undercover Series in 1999. During the past year she has worked on various film projects, including as associate producer, marketing/special projects and assistant editor for the feature-length documentary BLAU JEANS, which premiered at the 2009 Achtung Berlin Festival. She was also the production manager for the feature MERCURY'S RULE, currently in post-production and has produced several videos, including on the Burmese and Brazilian communities and post-Katrina New Orleans. She is also a contributing writer for the Indian American magazine. She has directed and developed a civic arts project for youth in San Francisco's Juvenile Hall, produced both national and local events for non-mainstream media and managed the production and content for a national ethnic media directory. She serves on the Grants & Advocacy Committee for Spark in San Francisco. In line with her passion for travel, Daniela loves foreign cultures and speaks German, Spanish & Russian. She holds a B.A. in Political Economy from UC Berkeley and certificate in video production and editing from City College of San Francisco.


 RYAN LYNCH

Ryan Lynch grew up on the outskirts of Atlanta, GA on a farm, where she'd spend the hot summer days riding her horse to the local video store to rent the latest new release. While traveling in the Middle East, India and Southeast Asia and filming every minute, she inadvertently created what became her first documentary.  Enamored by telling stories through moving images, she decided to become a filmmaker. Ryan has spent the last six years at Pixar Animation Studios in the story department working on films such as Ratatouille and the upcoming 2012 release, Brave.  Also while at Pixar, she's worked on numerous short live-action films in various roles from director to writer to production designer through Pixar’s live-action film coop. Her latest film she wrote and directed, Real Men Go Hunting went on to screen at numerous film festivals all over the world including Cannes Short Film Corner and Honolulu IFF where it won an Aloha Accolade Award. She is in production on another short she's directing called, The Farms, through her production company she started in 2009 called MissMottMedia, LLC. She received a B.F.A. in visual arts from University of Colorado and an M.F.A. in film directing from Academy of Art University in San Francisco. 



Soumyaa Kapil behrens

Soumyaa Kapil Behrens is a filmmaker based in San Francisco, California. Originally from Chicago, she has traveled the world working in film and theatre, going to unusual places inlcuding Finland, Estonia, China, Vietnam and Texas.  She is currently producing the feature narrative, BEYOND REDEMPTION, a contemporary western with women as John Wayne like heroes, and directing a feature documentary, MY GARBAGE, MY NEIGHBORHOOD, about the eviction of a recycling center from Golden Gate Park.  Behrens wrote and directed a short narrative, CLIMATE CHANGE, which screened at festivals nationwide including Santa Fe Film Festival and Rome International Fim Festival among others.  Behrens also curates 16mm film programs at Oddball Film Archive and teaches film classes in the Bay Area, she holds and MFA in Cinema Production from San Francisco State University.  
 
 

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