Our Board
Kary Antholis
President of HBO Miniseries and an Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker whose film “One Survivor Remembers” won both the Oscar for Documentary Short Subject and the Emmy for Outstanding Information Special.
Olympia Dukakis
Academy Award-winning actress, known for her roles in “Moonstruck,” “Mr. Holland’s Opus,” “Mighty Aphrodite,” and “Steel Magnolias” and many more.
Sid Ganis
President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences from 2005 to 2009. Producing credits include “Akeelah and the Bee,” “Mr. Deeds,” “Big Daddy,” and “Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo.”
Jim Gianopulos
CEO and Chairman of 20th Century Fox Filmed Entertainment and a member of the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences since 2004.
Theane Evangelis Kapur
Attorney with the Los Angeles office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. Kapur practices in the firm’s litigation department and is a member of its Media and Entertainment Practice Group.
Stratton Leopold
Executive Producer of blockbusters “Wolfman,” “Mission Impossible III,” “Paycheck,” “The Sum Of All Fears,” and more.
Alexia Melocchi
President of Little Studio Films, a production and literary management company, where she is in charge of the company’s entire roster of literary clients comprised of produced writers and directors from the US and abroad.
Phedon Papamichael
Director and cinematographer whose credits include “The Ides of March”, “The Descendants”, “3:10 to Yuma”, “Pursuit of Happiness”, “Sideways”, “Walk The Line”, “The Weather Man”, “Identity” and many more. Directing credits include “Arcadia Lost”, filmed in Greece.
Alexander Payne
Academy Award-winning filmmaker whose credits include, “Citizen Ruth,” “Election,” “About Schmidt,” starring Jack Nicholson and Kathy Bates, and “Sideways,” which earned Paynean Oscar for Best Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published, shared with writing partner Jim Taylor. He recently completed “The Descendants”.
Nia Vardalos
Academy Award-nominated writer and actress whose credits include the Independent Spirit Award-winning film “My Big Fat Greek Wedding,” “Connie And Carla,” “My Life in Ruins,” and the CBS television show, “My Big Fat Greek Life.” Her directing debut “I Hate Valentine’s Day” premiered at 2009 LAGFF.
Advisory Board Emeritus
Yani Begakis
Chairman of the Board of Directors, Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Begakis was a longtime Hollywood Correspondent for Greece, Germany, and Japan. He passed away in 2008.