Amy Lillard
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Amy Lillard started her career as an independent film publicist out of New York and Los Angeles designing the release campaigns for groundbreaking films such at "The Blair Witch Project," "American Psycho" and "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels." Amy retired from publicity in 2000 and took a trip around the world. Two years and 42 countries later, she settled in Seattle where she has worked in various capacities including, director of publicity and promotion (SIFF 2003-04), festival director of the Reel Cinerama Film Festival (2003 and 2004), and producer of the Fly Filmmaking Challenge (2003-07).
Julie Daman
ACCOUNTING MANAGER
After graduating with honors from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, Julie began her career in New York working on the sitcom "Spin City," starring Michael J Fox. When the production moved to Los Angeles, Julie followed. In LA, she concurrently worked on the re-imagined "Spin City" as well as numerous pilots and sitcoms such as "DAG," "The Ellen Show," and "Scrubs." Julie continued to work in production accounting for both NY and LA based shows such as "Hope & Faith" and HBO's "Entourage," until 2005 when she became involved in LA's burgeoning New Media community. Julie began her own New Media production company where she created a weekly podcast, an award winning mini-sitcom web series, as well as produced work for clients such as TBS.com, and promotional web videos for independent music artists. In 2008, eager to learn more about various state film incentives, she worked as a lead accountant on an independently produced feature, "Ms January." Shortly after she moved to Seattle and became part of Washington Filmworks.