Meet the Staff

Christy Park, Executive Director
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Christy Park’s passion and commitment to film, art, storytelling, and education are revealed by her experience creating media that both informs and entertains. After spending two years directing local youth programs as an AmeriCorps service volunteer, she worked with two non-profit media organizations – HOME, Inc. and Somerville Community Access Television – while also directing, producing, and editing various community arts television programs. She has provided production assistance and editing for KINODANCE, Plum TV, and Film-Truth Productions on such projects as A Home for Us All, a documentary feature which explores the housing crisis on Martha’s Vineyard and helped raise over $530,000 toward the Island Affordable Housing Fund. Her experience also includes community event and film festival production, curation, artistic direction for both the Martha’s Vineyard Independent and International Film Festivals as well as PR direction for the Martha’s Vineyard Chamber of Commerce. She has produced branded interstitial content for Scripps Networks. Christy is currently acting as Co-Producer for an upcoming narrative feature inspired by the works of Korean choreographer Eun Me Ahn with award-winning directors Alla Kovgan and David Hinton. Park graduated from James Madison University’s School of Media Arts and Design. “My vision is focused on generating movement with the organization itself, subsequently broadening the reach of dance on camera and growing the appeal of the dance film genre. I am thrilled to join DFA as Executive Director.”

Deirdre Towers,  Festival Curator
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Deirdre Towers has produced the Dance on Camera Festival, co-sponsored by the Film Society of Lincoln Center, from 1995 until the present. Her training as a producer began through working for the Theatre Guild on the Broadway production “Musical Jubilee,” and subsequently working for documentary filmmaker Peter Rosen on several projects related to music. She has written about dance film and flamenco for over twenty publications, including Dance Magazine where she worked for 5 years, and served on the juries of Dance Screen, Grand Prix de Video Danse, the International Emmys, and the American Dance Festival.  As a dancer/choreographer, she has performed at a wide variety of venues. She has been a teaching artist for City Center during the Flamenco Festival since 2006, for American Ballet Theatre for 3 Summer Intensives, and for Maria Benitez’ Institute of Spanish Arts for 6 summers.  A graduate of Hamilton College with a Masters in Arts Administration from NYU, Deirdre  studied dance and drumming in Ghana through World Learning.

Brighid Greene, Outreach Coordinator
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Brighid Greene, a native to the golden state, ventured east to attend New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, where she graduated on the Dean’s List and as a recipient of the J.S. Seidman Award with a BFA in Dance and a double major in Religious Studies. She performed in original works by Patricia Hoffbauer and Lucinda Childs at Tisch and is a dancer for the bi-coastal company The Anata Project. In New York, she has performed at venues including the Skirball Center, the 92nd Street Y, and the Ellen Stewart Theater and in a site-specific piece by Diego Gil in Salzbug, Austria for Szene Salzburg. Brighid has had the opportunity to present work at Tisch Dance, DanceNOW[NYC] RAW Festival, and the La Mama Moves! Dance Festival and continues to create for the Red Currant Collective, of which she is a founding member. Pursuing the collaboration between dance and film, Brighid is your Outreach Coordinator at DFA. She currently serves on the Dance/NYC Junior Committee.

Caterina Bartha, Finance Manager
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Caterina Barhta is a management and producing consultant with over fifteen years of experience in the performing arts. She is currently an independent accountant working with small business and non-profits. From 2008-2009 she served as Executive Director for Doug Varone and Dancers. She is a charter member of the Arts Leadership Institute and holds an MBA in Media Management.  From 2003 – 2008 she served as Company Director for Bebe Miller Company, producing critically acclaimed and Bessie award winning Landing/Place (2005). She worked with Jane Comfort and Company for fourteen years producing multiple evening length shows including, Persephone (2004) at the Joyce Theater, Asphalt (1999) at the Ohio Theater, and Bessie award winner Underground River (1996). She is a co-founding member of Collective: Unconscious. As an independent producer she has presented the work of critically acclaimed performance artists Karen Finley (George & Martha, 2004) and Annie Sprinkle (Love, Sex, Death and Art, 2007), as well as the Lower West Side Film Festival (2005), the Collective for Loving Cinema Series (2008) and is the founding producer of the undergroundzero theater festival. She has worked as a producing consultant with DD Dorvillier, Cathy Weis Projects, Nina Winthrop and Dancers, John Jasperse Company, Bill Young and Dancers, Anahi Galante, and Robbin Tribble, among others.  In the past. she has served on PS 122′s Artists Advisory Committee and was board co-chair of New Dance Alliance from 2001-2003.

Melissa Silvestri, Archivist
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Melissa Silvestri studied English and History at Baruch College, and was previously an Assistant Editor for Filmmaker Magazine, where she was deeply entrenched in the world of independent film. She interviewed filmmakers, wrote and edited the weekly online newsletter, and contributed articles and news items to the magazine, both print and online. She is also a freelance writer, with her work being seen in The Village Voice, Women & Hollywood, IONCinema, Cinespect, and Venus Magazine. She enjoys attending dance performances, writing about film, going to museums, and exploring her neighborhood of Astoria, Queens. She feels that Dance Films Association is a wonderful organization that is truly dedicated to the artistic collaborations between dance and film, and sees archiving films as a valuable way of preserving the past and present for future audiences worldwide.

Jeremie Gluckman, Intern
Jeremie Gluckman is a Junior at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York. He has been studying dance since early childhood and learned a variety of forms over the years ranging from Ballet to Indian Classical as well as Modern Dance, Jazz, and Hip-Hop. In addition to his intern position at the Dance Films Association, Jeremie is currently studying economics and finance accompanied by film and dance in university.

Past Volunteers
Marina Voyna (Research)
Diana Klukas & Katrin Kumpel (Web Archives)