Team
BEARS REBECCA FONTÉ
Founder and Creative Director
Favorite SciFi: DEMOLITION MAN
Rumored Homeworld: Endor
Future Wish: Full Immersion VR/Avatar/Caprica-life
Jordan Brown
Associate Artistic Director
Favorite SciFi: ATTACK THE BLOCK - It’s basically The Goonies if you replace the Fratellis with alien monsters and the Oregon coast with South London project housing.
Rumored Homeworld: The Zooniverse
Future Wish: To undo some of the damage humans have inflicted on the planet. Can we do that?
COURTNEY HAZLETT GELDERMAN
Programmer and Director of Marketing
Favorite SciFi: DOCTOR WHO
Rumored Homeworld: Florana
Future Wish: Teleportation (because I hate traffic and I'd get to sleep in longer)
BRETT RYAN BONOWICZ
Programmer and Screenwriting Director
Favorite SciFi: 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY
Rumored Homeworld: SOLARIS
Future Wish: For humanity to realize that the future is an abstraction that can not be attained.
Crystal Guerrero
Programmer and Hospitality Director
Favorite SciFi: TRON
Rumored Homeworld: Center of the Earth. Seven light years below sea level in Stankonia
Future Wish: To drink a nice, crisp Pilsner out of the Stanley Cup.
HAL Hoeppner
Director of Operations
Favorite SciFi: Mass Effect
Rumored Homeworld: Earth 2.0
Future Wish: that the world doesn’t combust
Reid Lansford
Programmer and Registration Director
Favorite SciFi: BLADE RUNNER
Rumored Homeworld: Parts Unknown
Future Wish: The embracing of Gene Roddenberry's idealistic utopia; where monetary value and status no longer exist and the goal for man is an enlightened, equal society where the sharing of knowledge and ideas is the main focus.
Robyn paxman
Programmer and Social Media Director
Favorite Scifi: POWER RANGERS IN SPACE
Rumored homeworld: Naboo
Future wish: At this point, for it not to be a dystopian wasteland.
Dan Repp
Director of Programming
Favorite SciFi: CHILDREN OF MEN
Rumored Homeworld: Daily Planet
Future Wish: That dogs could live as long as humans
The Label Collective
Festival Designers
Favorite SciFi: THE FIFTH ELEMENT
Rumored Homeworld: Xandar
Future Wish: To discover proof of extraterrestrial life similar to humans on another planet.
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Lauren Kitching
Festival Poster Artist
Favorite SciFi: STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION
Rumored Homeworld: The World of Two Moons
Future Wish: To find a way to combine artistic endeavors with eco-awareness to influence the future of artistry and harness world-saving techniques.
Board of Directors
CANDICE CUMMINGS HARRIS
President
Favorite SciFi: ALIENS
Rumored Homeworld: Discworld
Future Wish: Super speed. The ability to zoom through my muggle activities would be amazing!
KELLY DAUGHERTY
Favorite SciFi: THE TWILIGHT ZONE, DOCTOR WHO
Rumored Homeworld: Gallifrey
Future Wish: Intelligence Downloading!
DOUGLAS LANSFORD
Favorite SciFi: THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL
Rumored Homeworld: Arrakis
Future Wish: The return of civil discourse to our daily lives
JODY SLAGLE
Favorite SciFi: Forbidden Planet
Rumored Homeworld: Barsoom
Future Wish: Technology, environmental care, and spiritual awakening will vault us into a new age of joy, discovery and fulfillment.
BEARS REBECCA FONTÉ
Secretary
Bears Rebecca Fonte founded Other Worlds after serving of the Director of Programming for Austin Film Festival from 2012-14. Her short films have been seen at over 150 festivals and her feature film iCRIME was released by Breaking Glass in 2010. She serves on the Board of Directors of aGLIFF's, Austin's queer film festival, and on the Austin Arts Commission. She actively believes in Ghosts, Aliens, Ancient Astronauts, Paranormal Abilities, and Marxist Communism.