ANNA DARRAH
Director of Development

Meow Wolf

Zillow

Kaiser Permanente

NM Dept of Health

Indigenous Fine Art Market

Solution Based Casework

Durango Film Festival

Spirit Voyage Records

Bright Star Live Events

KRI

Studio Art Centres International

Santa Fe County

BBC

PBS

CNN

NBC

A&E

Bravo

VH1

Discovery Health Channel

Aljazeera

Canal+

Starz/Encore

Sundance Channel

Anna Darrah

director of development & distribution

Anna is an experienced film buyer, negotiating with and licensing over 800 films in her 12 years working for Gaiam and Spiritual Cinema Circle. She has been an active player on the festival circuit and currently advises filmmakers on custom distribution strategies. Anna is also a filmmaker who produced two documentaries that aired on The Sundance Channel, and directed a music video and the short film THE MATTER OF MAGIC. She is currently working on a feature length documentary about Helen Schreider (www.THEHELENMOVIE.com) while producing and directing episodes for the new ZILLOW.COM series, HOMEMAKERS. Anna has enjoyed jurying and participating in film festival panels and workshops here and abroad and is currently offering a Film Distribution Workshop co-­taught with Jilann Spitzmiller. Anna authored a chapter in Swimming Upstream: A Lifesaving Guide to Short Film Distribution, and has published articles on topics as diverse as motherhood and film distribution.

Jilann Spitzmiller

HEAD OF PRODUCTION

Jilann is an award-winning filmmaker and educator with credits including SHAKESPEARE BEHIND BARS which premiered in competition at the Sundance Film Festival and picked up 11 festival awards. Jilann's work has been shown on outlets such as NBC, PBS, BBC, Sundance Channel, Starz/Encore, Canal + and Aljazeera. She co-directed and co-produced CRITICAL CONDITION which aired on POV as a special broadcast in partnership with the McNeil/Lehrer Hour. Her new film, STILL DREAMING, premiered at DOCNYC and is slated to air on PBS in 2017. She has also created two critically acclaimed doc projects for National PBS, HOMELAND, and CIRCLE OF STORIES. She was a field producer, cinematographer and writer for 2 seasons of the popular Discovery Health Channel series, MEDICAL DIARY and was a field producer and writer for the NBC documentary series, LIFE MOMENTS. She is the co-founder of DocuMentors and frequently teaches doc workshops and consults privately on all aspects of documentary producing and directing.

Alessandra Dobrin-Deluxe

HEAD OF POST PRODUCTION

Alessandra an Emmy winning director, producer, editor, and writer of speculative fiction, based in Santa Fe, NM. Alessandra has worked on many television series, narrative and documentary films, music videos, and commercials, and her work has appeared on major networks including, NBC, CBS, ABC, MTV, VH1, PBS, BET, and Amazon, and within the domestic and international festival circuit. Recent projects include director and editor on the Emmy winning series, THE EARLY SHOW WITH ALAX, Lead Editor on MEOW WOLF: ORIGIN STORY, which is featured on AppleTV, premiered at SXSW, and played in over 600 theaters and on airlines worldwide. Alessandra was lead editor on the CBS TV Special ELVIS BY THE PRESLEYS. Other notable projects include the intro to music videos THE BEATLES’ GET BACK & DON’T LET ME DOWN, the TV Special ELVIS LIVES, and VH1's VIBE AWARDS. She taught Advanced Film Editing at the ‘Santa Fe University of Art and Design’ for 5 years.  

Alessandra is currently writing her first YA speculative fiction novel. Previous works have been published in online magazines, including The New York Times.