Full Frame Staff

Emily Foster, Co-Festival Director
emily.m.foster@duke.edu

Emily Foster is the Co-Festival Director at Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. She joined Full Frame in 2019 as the Marketing Director. Previously, she held the position of Communications & Press Manager at Milwaukee Film, where she also supported documentary film programming. She has worked for a variety of film organizations in programming, marketing, operations, and development, including the Sundance Institute, SIFF, Nashville Film Festival, and Cleveland International Film Festival. Emily has served on numerous juries and panels, in addition to producing panels and workshops as a Track Head for Art House Convergence.

Sadie Tillery, Co-Festival Director & Artistic Director
sadie.tillery@duke.edu

Sadie Tillery is the Co-Festival Director and Artistic of the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. Sadie joined the Programming Department in 2005 and became Director in 2008. In her role, she is responsible for Full Frame’s annual lineup of new and retrospective documentary titles, and has collaborated with guest curators including Steve James, Rick Prelinger, Lucy Walker, Ross McElwee, and Sam Pollard.

Sadie has traveled extensively, representing Full Frame at the Venice, Toronto, and Sundance Film Festivals, along with the International 1001 Documentary Film Festival in Istanbul, CPH:DOX in Copenhagen, and IDFA in Amsterdam. Sadie graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Hollins University, with a degree in Film and Photography. 

Bel Destefani, Operations Director 
belem.destefani@duke.edu

Bel, aka Belem, Destefani joined Full Frame as operations director in 2024, but has helped Full Frame in many capacities over the years: intern, volunteer, screening committee member and programming committee member. She is a Duke alum and has a master’s degree from the NYU Tisch School of the Arts. She has spent the last 12 years in NYC working for nonprofit arts organizations, such as Creative Capital, the Museum of the Moving Image, Film Society of Lincoln Center and the New York International Children’s Film Festival, as well as in higher education at New York University. She has a passion for film, books, dogs and data spreadsheets. In her free time, she enjoys exploring all the trails in the Triangle with her partner and pup.

Katelyn Liu, Programming Manager
katelyn.liu@duke.edu

Katelyn Liu is the Programming Manager at Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. Starting in 2018, Katelyn has been involved with festival in different ways — whether a volunteer, a part of the selection committee, the programming assistant, and now in her role as the programming manager. She was selected to be a part of the inaugural IDA Getting Real Fellowship in 2022 and has represented Full Frame at The Gotham Week, New Orleans Film Festival, and at Krakow Film Festival. She graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a degree in Public Policy.

Dan Partridge, Production Director
danpa@duke.edu

Dan Partridge is the Production Director for the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. He has served as the Research Associate for The Jazz Loft Project at the Center for Documentary Studies, beginning in 2003.

From 2000-2002, he was the CDS Exhibitions and Public Programs Assistant. Prior to working at CDS he was the Coordinator and Teaching Assistant for the Sound Shadows program at the Governor Morehead School in Raleigh.

Miranda Volborth, Marketing Manager 
miranda.volborth@duke.edu

Miranda Volborth is the marketing manager at Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. She is a communications strategist with broad experience across nonprofit, government, and higher education sectors. She comes to Full Frame after an extensive stint as a science communicator, working for the U.S. EPA, NC State University, and most recently, Duke Engineering. Miranda earned her master’s degree in Strategic Communication at the Hussman School of Journalism and Media at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, after which she worked in the press office of Sundance Film Festival.

Jamie Webb, Development Manager 
jamie.webb@duke.edu

Jamie Webb joins the Full Frame team with over a decade of experience in the independent film industry. After several years working various roles at film festivals such as Sundance, Tribeca, Cucalorus, and Full Frame, Jamie landed as Festival Manager at Milwaukee Film, handling box office strategy and operations as well as venue production and logistics. Following a move to the Boston area, Jamie joined the Coolidge Corner Theatre as General Manager with leadership responsibilities across day-to-day cinema operations, staff management, and strategic projects.  

Prior to joining the Full Frame team, Jamie worked as Film Sales Manager at Together Films, focusing on strategic sales goals to share social impact entertainment with audiences across the world via community and education screenings, film festivals, and theatrical screening deals. In addition, Jamie currently serves as Treasurer on the board of the Film Festival Alliance, whose mission is to create a global community for mission-driven film festivals.