Allegra is originally from the Great Dismal Swamp on the coast of Southern Virginia. In search of lands less dreary, she moved to California and attended the California College of Art where she received her MA in Curatorial Practice. Her interests...

Matthew joins Frameline after serving more than 7 years as the Vice President of Development for Family Equality, an organization that ensures everyone has the freedom to find, form, and sustain their families by advancing equality for the LGBTQ+ ...

Esme made the trek from the East County of San Diego to the Bay Area back in the mid-2000s and stayed ever since. She brings to Frameline her lifelong passion for film, over a decade of experience in administrative work, and more than 15 years of ...

Nominated for an LA Press Club National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Award in 2022 and an active member of GALECA (The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics), Kate writes about pop culture and reviews TV and movies for outlets such as Scre...

With a lifelong passion for film and a taste for bold visions, subversive art, and unique voices, Joe Bowman has traced that cinematic devotion through his entire academic and professional life. Like one of his favorite screen sirens, Joe hails fr...

A product of the Chicago suburbs, Court decided to do the most unexpected thing and get a BFA in Film Production from Florida State University. After a stint in the LA industry, she spent three years in Portland managing marketing for Alberta Co-o...

Born and raised in San Francisco, Matthew Wong is a queer sound artist and filmmaker creating narrative-based work and conducting research on Asian American music in the Bay Area. With his educational background in music, he began his film journey...

As a youngster in his native East Los Angeles, Alberto would bus across town to check out various local film festivals, ultimately leading him to Frameline after his move to the Bay Area. His studies in Studio Art and Art History, particularly his...

A Biloxi, MS native, Kaitlyn has her degree in Business Administration with a focus in Operational Management and has been managing Operations and Box Offices for independent film festivals for the last 6 years. With Mill Valley Film Festival and ...

Sam Berliner is a filmmaker best known for his award-winning short films about gender nonconformity: Dating Sucks: A Genderqueer Misadventure, Genderbusters, Perception, and Float. When not actively making films...

Aidan Dick is in their third year programming and events producing for Frameline. Aidan is a film curator whose work is grounded in a deep commitment to queer cinema as both cultural archive and living discourse. Besides film, Aidan can be caught ...

Kegan Marling is a visual artist and arts programmer from the SF Bay Area whose work focuses on documenting alternative queer communities, dance, and the pursuit of play. Their work has been in the de Young, Frameline, SF Chronicle, and N...

Jorge Molina has worked for nearly a decade in festivals like Tribeca, Frameline, NewFest, and LALIFF. He is a screenwriter and filmmaker behind several short films and podcasts, and his directorial debut is coming later this year. Jorge can be fo...

Kathleen is the lead programmer for Frameline49 and a programmer for the Victoria Film Festival, Vancouver Queer Film Festival, Seattle International Film Festival, Vancouver Latin American Film Festival, and Sustainable Production Forum. For 9 ye...

Ariel Ottey is a New York native passionate about QTIBIPOC representation and film as a platform for social change. They supported the Human Rights Watch Film Festival in programming and production before becoming MIX NYC's Director of Operations....

Elizabeth Purchell is a Brooklyn-based queer film historian, programmer, filmmaker, and the founder of Muscle Distribution. Outside of the fest, she also programs monthly queer film series at the AFS Cinema in Austin and IFC Center in New York. He...

Kristal Sotomayor has served as Lead Shorts Programmer at Frameline since 2022. An award-winning filmmaker and journalist, their work has been supported by Sundance, BlackStar, and Outfest. Kristal has also curated for SFFILM, True/False, and the ...