Film Festival Director

FILM FESTIVAL FOUNDER, DIRECTOR & PROGRAMMER

I've been a film festival director for 16 years.  Amazing Fantasy Fest , my first venture as solo festival director, is the final evolution of festivals I previously co-founded: Buffalo Screams Horror Film Festival, which ran for three years, and Buffalo Dreams Fantastic Film Festival, which ran for ten. All three iterations of this festival have celebrated horror, science fiction, fantasy, action, animation, and experimental cinema.  I've screened approximately 1,500 films, and this festival has shown more locally produced films than any other film festival in Western New York.

I recently launched a new film festival, Empire State Film Festival, which will debut at the prestigious arthouse Cinemapolis in Ithaca, New York, October 23rd - 25th. Only films produced in New York State are eligible for consideration at ESFF. ESFF is not specifically a genre festival and screens films of all types.

Amazing Fantasy Fest – Founding Director, October 2023 - present. Submissions for this highly respected film festival are open on FilmFreeway.

Empire State Film Festival - Founding Director, October, 2025 - present. Submissions are open on FilmFreeway!

Buffalo Dreams Fantastic Film Festival - Co-Founder/Co-Director/Co-Programmer, 2014 – 2022

Buffalo Screams Horror Film Festival - Co-Founder/Co-Director/Co-Programmer, 2010 - 2012.

Buffalo Niagara International Film Festival – Publicist/Co-Programmer, 2008