ORGANIZATION

The Chesapeake Film Festival brings outstanding narrative, comedy, documentary and short films to Easton, Cambridge, and Chesapeake College in Wye Mills that otherwise would not be available to the citizens of the Eastern Shore of Maryland and surrounding areas. Our fourth annual festival in 2011 builds on the extraordinary successes of our first three festivals and once again will include Gallery 447 in the town of Cambridge. CFF has partnered with Easton Premier Cinemas, Plein Air, The Frederick Douglass Honor Society, the Talbot Cinema Society, the Talbot Office of Tourism, and others. In addition, our film festival proudly enhances Easton’s growing reputation as a center for the arts, adding a new and complementary dimension to existing arts events, such as the Waterfowl, Chamber Music and Plein Air festivals. The exciting variety of films that CFF brings have won numerous awards all over the world at prestigious awards ceremonies and represent the distinguished work of both new ground-breaking films as well as beloved classics. The Board of Directors is immensely grateful to each and every person who supports our festival!

VISION AND MISSION STATEMENT
It is the mission of the Chesapeake Film Festival to entertain, enrich and inspire by bringing the finest in narrative, documentary and short film to the Chesapeake Bay community. The films we intend to showcase are broadly focused to illuminate both the diversity and the universality of the human condition.

We believe films can affect positive change and through this medium individuals and communities gain a greater understanding of themselves and the world. We envision a festival that stimulates, educates and empowers.

Artistic Director: Doug Sadler
Festival Director: Rhonda Thomson
Volunteer Coordinator: Jane Selden

BOARD OF DIRECTORS
President: Robert Leo Tessier
Vice President: G. Charlene Marcum
Treasurer: Ann Dorbin
Executive Director: Margaret Tessier
Filmmaker Liaison: Liza Moore
Special Events Director: Corrie James
Marketing Director: Randall Wallace
Development Director: Ken Sadler
Hospitality Director: Gloria Condrell
Member-at-large: Jim Chance
Member-at-large: Leslie Grove
Member-at-large: Melissa Taylor

Film Advisory Board
Patrick Creadon, Filmmaker
Linda Delibero, Director, Film and Media Studies Program, Johns Hopkins University
Jed Dietz, Director Maryland Film Festival
Patrick Wright, Chair of Film and Video, MICA

Advisory Committee
Ann Bedient
Joan Cox
Jim Duffy
Carol Flaisher
Jim Gieske
Erik Neil
Simone Rones
Barbara Viniar
Leslie Westbrook
Lisa Zuccari