ALL STAFF
Annie Brown
Operations Manager – She / Her / Hers
Annie Brown is a longtime member of the Maine non-profit community. Her professional experience ranges from event production (think parades, pop-up events, fundraising galas) to donor relations to conference management. She grew up in Portland, ME, and is a graduate of Bennington College, where her studies focused on performing arts, costume and production design, and administration. She’s been on the Points North team since 2018, joining the organization from the Farnsworth Art Museum. She’s passionate about doing powerful work in the midcoast community and fostering surprising opportunities here on the Coast of Maine.
Zaina Bseiso
Programmer, CIFF & Artist Programs
Zaina Bseiso is a filmmaker and curator working primarily in documentary and experimental cinema. Her interests revolve around diasporic relations to land, hope and potentialities. In 2022, she joined the programming team at the Points North Institute/Camden International Film Festival. She is co-founder of Bahía Colectiva, a community of filmmakers that collaborate in practice and curation. Her work has screened at Curtas Vila do Conde, Guanajuato, RIDM, DokLeipzig and Ajyal Film Festival, among others. She received her Master’s degree in Film and Video from the California Institute of the Arts. Her practice mainly traverses among Palestine, Egypt, Cuba, Mexico, and the US.
Sarah Erwin
Associate Producer, Artist & Community Programs – She / Her / Hers
Born & raised in Maine, Sarah is thrilled to be joining the Points North Team as part of the Recovery in Maine program. She comes to Points North from Tribeca Film Institute and is excited to bring her love for independent film & community programming to her home state. She loves talking about TV shows and also would be happy to help anyone source the perfect vintage quilt for their home.
Sean Flynn
Program Director
Co-Founder PNI – He / Him / His
Sean Flynn is the Program Director and Co-Founder of the Points North Institute, where he leads the development and curation of the Points North Forum and Artist Programs since 2011. Sean received a master’s degree from MIT’s Comparative Media Studies department while working as a researcher at the MIT Open Documentary Lab. Sean began his filmmaking career as a producer and cinematographer on two feature-length documentaries, BEYOND BELIEF and THE LIST, both of which had their premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival and aired on national television. In 2012, Sean was a Fulbright Senior Research Fellow in Mumbai, India.
Meg Fournier
Production Manager – She / Her / Hers
For over 15 years, Meg has been building and supporting multi-disciplinary arts programs around Maine with a particular interest in their effect on the communities they serve. Born and raised in Louisiana, the arts have been an integral part of her daily life since day one. She moved to Brooklyn to pursue a BFA at Pratt Institute and somehow landed in Waldo County, Maine – a place she loves with every fiber of her being. Prior to joining Points North Institute as Production Manager, Meg’s work included roles with the Maine Arts Commission, Waterfall Arts, the Maine International Film Festival, Shadow Distribution, and the Unity College Center for the Arts, as well as the Renzi Education & Art Center in Louisiana. She also co-founded and directed the Free Range Music Festival and Roots & Tendrils, a contemporary art and music venue in Belfast. Meg lives in Belfast with her family, a wild rescue pup, and four moody chickens.
Cam Howard
Program Coordinator- They/Them/Theirs
Cam is a writer, zinemaker, and occasional podcaster and documentary filmmaker. Their recent projects include the comic series CROC AND BAT; A FUTURE, a fiction zine about trans* community organizing; and the biographical documentary YVONNE’S KITCHEN, which was a semi-finalist for the Student Academy Award. Cam is a graduate of the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies and the Rochester Institute of Technology, and was a 2023 LEF New England Flaherty Fellow. They support the Points North Team with administrative responsibilities and unsolicited astrology advice.
Colin Kelley
Tech Director – He / Him / His
Colin has been with CIFF since 2010, where he started as a projectionist. In addition to his work here, Colin is the Technical Director for the Full Frame Documentary Festival in Durham, NC and a media production consultant at Bowdoin College. He is a graduate of Alfred University and the Maine Media Workshops four-week doc program.
Kate Lemberg
Associate Manager, Industry & Artist Programs – She / Her / Hers
Kate Lemberg is the Associate Manager of Industry Relations/Artist Programs, having been on the AP team since 2020. In addition to her work at PNI, Kate is a staff programmer at RiverRun and Nashville; the market producer at Tribeca and DOC NYC; a screening committee member for Tribeca and Rooftop; and has screened for NewFest, Camden, Austin, Brooklyn, and more. Having begun her work in festivals in venue and ticketing operations—having previously done so at Sundance, Tribeca, DOC NYC, True/False, Hamptons, and more—she still works in those arenas on occasion. Kate is a proud BA & MA alum of Cinema Studies at NYU Tisch.
Lucila Moctezuma
Senior Consultant, Artist Programs – She / Her / Hers
Lucila Moctezuma is a consultant to documentary filmmakers and media organizations in the US and internationally, and programmer with international festivals. Her work with independent filmmakers focuses on story, craft and creative authorship, and consults with media organizations in program design and program implementation, and as facilitator of story workshops. Currently she is Senior Consultant of Artist Programs at Points North Institute, and other consulting organizations include the Sundance Documentary Film Program, Brown Girls Doc Mafia, and Multitude Films, and story workshops with the Bronx Documentary Center and BAVC. She is Associate International Programmer for Hot Docs in Canada, and a member of the documentary programming committee at the Morelia International Film Festival in Mexico. Previously, she held senior positions at high-profile organizations such as Chicken & Egg Pictures, UnionDocs, Women Make Movies, the Media Arts Fellowships for The Rockefeller Foundation, and founded the TFI Latin America Fund for Tribeca Film Institute. She sits on the Executive Board of Cine Qua Non Lab and was Vice-President of the Board of Trustees of The Flaherty. She is Producer of the feature-length documentary, She Wrestles (in development, by award-winning director and wrestling state champion, Charles Fairbanks). Based in Brooklyn, NY, Lucila is from Mexico City and is a frequent guest participant at film forums, panels and juries in the US and internationally. In 2021 she became a member of the Documentary Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences.
Emily Peckham
Development Director – She / Her / Hers
Emily Peckham is the Director of Development for the Points North Institute, bringing with her a background in organizational behavior, project management, and fundraising for place-based education. Her keen interest in the arts can be traced from her early childhood. Emily earned a B.A. in psychology from Oberlin College with a research methods focus and inductions into Sigma Xi and Phi Beta Kappa. Her early career included management consulting in a boutique firm and project management at a major Boston teaching hospital. After three years in a Ph.D. program at Boston College, Emily moved to Rockland in 2007.
Eynar
Guest Experience Manager (GEM) – He / Him / His
Eynar is a Baltimore-based freelance documentary producer and festival professional specializing in guest services and event production. He has worked with festivals including True/False Film Fest, Camden International Film Festival, DOC NYC and First Look. Most recently, he was a Program Advisor for True/False and Producer of the 68th Flaherty Film Seminar.
Deborah Rudolph
Partnerships Officer – She/Her/Hers
Deborah Rudolph comes to CIFF from her hometown of New York City, where she is an Associate Programmer at the Tribeca Film Festival. She was previously Director of Sponsorship and DOCNYC PRO for DOCNYC, and has served as Producer of the Points North Forum at CIFF, Programming Coordinator at Montclair Film, and for many years as Manager of Corporate Social Responsibility at HBO. She is a large-scale event producer for both for-profit and non-profit organizations, as was also a film evaluator for POV, Catapult Film Fund, and Chicken & Egg Pictures. She holds a BFA in Film and Photography from NYU, and a Masters in Communication from Columbia University.
Rick Rector
Interim Executive Director – He/His
Rick is a seasoned business executive with experience in a broad range of industries. He has served on the Points North Board since its inception, both as Board Chair and currently Treasurer. If you’d like to reach him, email him at [email protected].
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Caroline von Kuhn | Chair
Julia Metcalfe | Vice Chair
Julia serves as an advisor to early-stage companies, focusing on product development, scaling operations, and investor strategy. Julia spent eight years at Facebook where she was a Product Manager for applied machine learning. Before that, she spent seven years leading teams focused on monetization and product experience analytics across Facebook’s global advertising business. Julia graduated from the University of Southern California with a B.S. in Business and International Relations and remains an active alum.
Rick Rector | Treasurer
Rick has over 35 years in senior management roles in a variety of industries, most recently as president of United Publications. He also has extensive experience with non-profit organizations, serving on or founding more than 20 in his career. In addition to Points North, Rick currently is on the board of the Maine Review, the Camden Area Food Pantry and the Personnel Board of the Town of Camden, Maine
Miguel Gómez-Ibáñez | Secretary
Miguel Gómez-Ibáñez, combined 20 years experience as a practicing architect with his training as a professional cabinet maker at North Bennet Street School in Boston to become a nationally recognized designer and maker of studio furniture. He served as President of North Bennet Street School from 2006 to 2019. His non-profit Board experience includes The Furniture Society, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, The Society of Arts and Crafts, The Concord Museum and the American Craft Council.
George Cooke | Board Member
George Cooke has spent summers in Maine since childhood and, along with his wife Laura, became a permanent resident of Lincolnville in 2019 following his retirement from an active legal practice in the media and entertainment business. Between stints at Boston and LA law firms, he had the good fortune to work for 20 years at HBO, where he had a front-row seat to the burgeoning of pay television and the internet.
Andrea Meditch | Board Member
Andrea has produced and exec’d such Emmy- and Oscar-winning or -nominated films as Man on Wire, Buck, Ernie&Joe, and Dangerous Acts. Her life-long passion has been helping emerging, diverse storytellers find the heart of their stories and create pathways to successful careers, in part as a mentor and advisor with PNI, Sundance and Hot Docs. Before founding her own company, Back Allie Entertainment, she built Discovery’s first film unit. She holds a PhD in Communications/Media from Northwestern.
Richard Aroneau | Board Member
Richard’s professional life has been split between architectural restoration and new urbanist projects and retail ventures. He has served on the boards of several Maine cultural organizations and is currently President Emeritus of the Farnsworth Art Museum.