OUR TEAM
Brian Ditchfield - Executive Director
Brian grew up on Martha's Vineyard, where he first became passionate about the creative arts. After studying at Boston University's College of Fine Art, he moved to Chicago and formed a production company with which he produced and wrote a nationally distributed feature film and award-winning shorts and documentaries. He moved back to the Vineyard in 2006 and shortly after found a happy home at the MVFF. In his 10+ years with the MVFF, he has helped expand the Festival, Summer Film Series, and Cinema Circus. He has also overseen the addition of educational programs and a filmmaking department.
Minah Oh - Programming Director
Minah is a producer and filmmaker who tells stories across various media. She was previously associate director of the Martha's Vineyard Film Society (MVFS), where she developed and programmed the first Women in Film festival, in addition to programming for young audiences. She has worked with MIT’s Open Documentary Lab to empower graduate students, technologists, scientists, and others to explore new documentary forms focused on collaborative, interactive, and immersive storytelling. Prior to that, she co-founded and led WorleyWorks, a Brooklyn post-production studio which focused on making cutting-edge post-production technology accessible to independent filmmakers. As an executive producer of films, she has premiered work at Sundance, Tribeca, Cannes, Toronto, and other film festivals. She and her two children moved to Martha's Vineyard full time in the fall of 2016, and in 2021 she was awarded a Warner Bros. Discovery 150 fellowship to direct her first feature documentary.
Anne Evasick - Senior Programmer and House Manager
Anne is a film projectionist and maven—familiar with essentially every film you've ever or never heard of. For many years, she was the owner of the Island’s iconic video and DVD store, Island Entertainment. She now manages the movie theater in Edgartown. Beyond a passion for cinema, Anne walks dogs and is the proud mother of Peter.
Annette Luna - Filmmaker Liaison
Annette is a trained actress, running enthusiast, and Martha’s Vineyard transplant via Los Angeles. Having worked in film and television in California, she is so grateful for this opportunity to blend her passion for film and community with Circuit Arts’ mission for making the arts accessible to the Island. Locally, she contributes her decades of retail experience to her husband’s family business, an Island favorite in downtown Edgartown, The Boneyard. Annette and her husband will be sinking their teeth even further into the retail fabric of downtown Edgartown with the opening of their new men’s boutique, Dune.
Charlie Dana - Documentary Short Films Programmer
Charlie moved to Martha's Vineyard after college, to work at the MVFF. That experience sparked an investment in the Island community and a passion for film. They are now a PhD student in Media Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Their research focuses on the ethical and societal implications of crime as entertainment, with a specific emphasis on the representations of accused women in true-crime documentaries. In addition to conducting research they teach undergraduate courses on crime and media, and media history, at the University of Colorado. They are thrilled to rejoin the MVFF team as the Documentary Shorts Programmer.
James Graham - Narrative Shorts Film Programmer
James is an award-winning writer and director as well as a lifelong seasonal resident of the Vineyard, although he finds himself on the Island more often than not. James has had a lifelong passion for filmmaking, making the extremely mature and responsible decision to pursue this as a career, starting at the ripe age of nine. He went on to study film and media at Middlebury College in Vermont. His last film, Aeon, won Best Short at the Boston Science Fiction Festival in 2020, and when not screening shorts for the MVFF he is busy working on his next film. He currently resides in Stamford, Connecticut, with his fiancee, Tali, and their two dogs and cats.
Board President
Jim Warner
Board of Directors
Mark Cronin
Geralyn Dreyfous
Anne Evasick
Patricia Favreau
Cheryl Finley
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Jeffrey Kusama-Hinte
Jasmine McGlade
Michael Shalett
Founder
Thomas Bena
Advisory Board
Scott Frank
Larry Glick
Matthew Heineman
Arleen McGlade
Jessica Roddy
Breeze Tonnesen
Tobias Vanderhoop
Monina von Opel
Marilyn Vukota
Natasha Bacigalupo Ziff