Full Frame Staff
PROGRAMMING
Sadie Tillery, Interim Festival Director & Artistic Director
sadie.tillery@fullframefest.org
Sadie Tillery is the Artistic Director and Interim Festival Director 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 line up 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. She is from Raleigh and now lives in Durham with her husband, their daughter, and their two dogs.
Katelyn Liu, Programming Manager
katelyn.liu@fullframefest.org
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 graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a degree in Public Policy. She was born in Queens, NY and grew up in Charlotte, NC.
MARKETING
Emily Foster, Associate Interim Festival Director & Marketing Director
emily.foster@fullframefest.org
Emily Foster is the Marketing Director and Associate Interim Festival Director at Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. Before joining Full Frame, she held the position of Communications & Press Manager at Milwaukee Film. 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.
PRODUCTION
Dan Partridge, Production Director
dan.partridge@fullframefest.org
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.
DEVELOPMENT
Leesa Moore, Development Manager
leesa.moore@fullframefest.org
Leesa Moore joins our Full Frame family as our new Development Manager. Leesa was born and raised in Durham, and majored in Film and Media Communications at North Carolina State University. During her stay at NCSU, Leesa was chosen to be a Full Frame fellow, and won 2nd place, as well as the Judge’s Choice Award in the 2014 Lulu eGames for Arts Entrepreneurship.
Leesa comes to us from the Boys & Girls Clubs of Wake County, where she led two successful annual campaigns for their organization. In her free time, Leesa enjoys volunteering with the Animal Protection Society of Durham, writing screenplays, and spending time with her family, friends and dog, Arya Jane.
2022 FESTIVAL PROGRAMMING COMMITTEE
Belem Destefani
Katelyn Liu
Winifred Metz
Ted Mott
Stephanie Owens
Ellen Raimond
Teka Selman
Sadie Tillery
2022 FESTIVAL SELECTION COMMITTEE
Brett Chambers
Gareth Gwyn
Caitlin Kelly
Marc Lee
Xaris Martinez
Marc Maximov
Andrea Mensch
Danette Pachtner
Dan Partridge
Maria Pramaggiore
Lani Simeona
Miguel Rojas Sotelo
Alan Teasley
CENTER FOR DOCUMENTARY STUDIES
Opeyemi Olukemi, Executive Director
Michelle Seymour, Finance Business Manager
michelle.seymour@duke.edu