Elizabeth Shepherd, Festival Director
Elizabeth Shepherd curates year-round family film programs at Northwest Film Forum and is the director the annual Children’s Film Festival Seattle, the West Coast’s largest annual competitive festival of its kind. She is also the curator of REDCAT International Children’s Film Festival, which is held annually at Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theatre in Los Angeles. She has also curated programs for Brooklyn Academy of Music, Asia Society Texas, the Honolulu Museum of Art, and many other prestigious venues in the United States. Before arriving in Seattle, she was the director of Chicago International Children’s Film Festival. She has served on the juries and panels of children’s film festivals worldwide.
CFFS Team
Youth Education Manager
Jonah Kozlowski
Workshop Instructors
Jonah Kozlowski & Tatiana Skorlupkina
Festival Trailer Design
Tatiana Skorlupkina
Festival Coordinator
Sophie Donlon
Festival Assistant
Felicia Alumbaugh
Festival Interns
TJ Calhoun, Emalia Hinden, Ina Megalli, Quynh Nguyen, Takahiro Okuda, Calder Stenn, Killian Strebe
Children’s Jury Coordinators
Mira Behar, Chloe Bertolet, Vanatcha Comesongsri, Isaiah Dziko, Delphi Mudede, Victor Xia
Youth Education and Festival Volunteers
Leslie Moulton, Shirley Sing, Dylan Adkisson, Tom Hughes, Ellie Hughes, Isaac Hughes
Technical Director
Brenan Chambers
House Manager
Louie Romo
Hospitality Chairperson
Barbara Curran
Official Program Advisor
Renate Zylla
Northwest Film Forum Staff
Brenan Chambers, Christopher Day, Vivian Hua, Jonah Kozlowski, Louie Romo, Amanda Salazar, Rana San, Elizabeth Shepherd, Paul Siple