Staff
The International Film Series is run by a small but dedicated staff of movie lovers. Look for us at any show and let us know how we're doing.
Pablo Kjølseth Duties & Responsibilities: Handling finances related to IFS, classroom, and PA accounts, including all invoiced payments due, scope-of-work employees (website, print media, calendar), student hourly supervision & payroll oversight, office coordination, as well as oversight over three media specialists. Responsible also for IFS film programming, screening IFS submissions, providing content for all ads, programs, posters, and flyers. Film trafficking: making sure all film and DCP inbound and outbound shipping is taken care of in timely fashion. Other financial responsibilities include filling out box-office reports, billing out payables, coordinating special-events (sneak previews, four-walled events, academic outreach, visiting filmmakers, etc.), sales, marketing, press releases, interviews, ad contracts and meeting with ad reps and entertainment editors, overseeing customer service for the IFS, and three or four business trips a year to meet with other film exhibitors and distributors to keep abreast of changing models for the business of film exhibition. Coordinating Norlin & Film Studies acquisitions. Oversight on all equipment upgrades taking place in screening spaces (critical studies & IFS). New duties include providing content for social media that include the IFS FB page and Twitter feed, and donor relations & fundraising.
John Adams John Adams does the layout and graphic design for the IFS schedule and print ads. He's a Boulder area painter, digital graphic artist and cartoonist. He submitted the first comic book and video to be seen as part of a Master’s Thesis to the Fine Arts Department (MFA 1974). His hobby is memorizing poetry and he can recite, among other works, Howl. To see what he is up to now, go to originalpureart.com.
Marty Mapes Owner of the Movie Habit web site, Marty developed the last several versions of our web site, and also our iOS app. Thanks to him we have daily reminders, weekly updates, custom schedules, and automatic tweets, to name a few.
Jason Phelps unsure of what to say about himself, simply mailed over a dried-out Sharpie, a drawing of what we believe to be a status bar, a check for the amount of $0.83, and a piece of paper with the words "you're welcome" scribbled on it. Thanks?
Julia Joun Julia Joun created and organized the first IFS Food Film Festival in 2013. She also coordinates and implements promotional campaigns for IFS films.
Adam Elbeck is a Film Studies major Business minor thinking of picking up a TAM Certificate. “I don’t know what the Bearnessesities of life are but I am inclined to think they include Movies Popcorn and a liberally applied layer of butter. I love movies and every thing that goes into making them and I hope to open my own production studio some day.”
Abby Elizabeth Rinerson is a sophomore film student interested in film and Japanese. She enjoys being outdoors and listening to music. She is a huge Hans Zimmer fan and loves film scores!
Raine Roberts is currently a junior who is working towards her BFA in Film Productions and her BA in Communications-Rhetoric. Raine once told her teachers that she broke her ankle by running over a turtle on a scooter... they believed her, the fools. She hates watching movies, hiking, and playing soccer, but she loves sarcasm... and wishes people would pick up on it more frequently.
Ryan Leonard is a freshman film student, who in his free time enjoys watching movies with friends, watching friends watch movies, and watching friends watching friends watching movies.
Erin Neitzel Erin is a BFA undergraduate student with aspirations of being the first arthouse filmmaker on Mars. When asked about her hobbies, she laughed and said "Oh, were you serious?". A fun fact about Erin is that she never officially enrolled here at CU, just emerged out of the woodwork one day.
Bruce Tetsuya is now a senior at UCB, working on his BFA in Film Production / graduating with Honors. If he's not on set, he's on the tennis court. Bruce especially loves Star Wars & Japanese Cinema. Wants to be Terrence Malick when he grows up. Currently learning how to skate.
Jack Dorfman is an undergraduate pursuing a BFA in Film Production and a minor in Technology, Arts, and Media. From living in Colorado all his life, he has become an avid skier, biker, and hiker. Between classes, he undertakes freelance film projects, works at the International Film Series and is a Video Producer for CU Presents.
Sarah Cole is a junior majoring in movies and minoring in space stuff. When she is not studying, watching, projecting or making films you'll find her reading, drinking tea, knitting and obsessing over all manner of fluffy cute animals.
Ivan How is a Biology graduate from Singapore and current junior working towards a BFA in Film Production. The next questions people ask him are "Jesus, how old are you??", and "Why is your English so not terrible?" Old enough. And... thanks?
Andi Hart
Debra Weiss
Jack Dorfman
Leticia Losey
Morgan Wahlin
Nate Huey
Noah Lustgarten
