Reno Film Festival 2006
Board of Directors and Advisory Board
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Bob Alessandrelli is a respected Reno marketing and management expert who runs his own consulting firm, RLA Solutions (www.rlasolutions.com). Bob served as the Reno Film Festival executive director for the festival's first four years and, as such, greatly assisted with the leadership, organization and scope of the festival. His other contracts prevented him from continuing as the executive director but he has maintained his interest and dedication to the festival by serving as a resource, volunteer and "institutional memory" for our event.

Chuck Alvey is president and chief executive officer of the Economic Development Authority of Western Nevada, a position he has held since September 1998 after thirty-one years in television production and management. An avid movie viewer, he coordinates a loosely-organized Friday Night Movie Group at the Riverside 12 most weeks. Attendance can range from 20 people to "himself", from a distribution list of over 60. He averages about two movies a week with a peak of 4 around pre-Academy Awards time. He likes all types of film but mostly the off-beat independents.
Lani Bonar Community at Large
Board Member: W.A. Tucker Foundation; Foundation 36
Member: Truckee Meadows Tomorrow; Nevada Museum of Art; National Automobile Museum; Sierra Arts; Historic Reno Preservation Society; Thunderbird Lodge; Tahoe Rim Trails; Nevada Humane Society
Attendee: Nevada Tourism University
Patti Hampton Community at Large
Board Member: Great Basin Film Society
Member: Northern Nevada Shakespeare Company; Ageless Repertory Theatre; For the Love of Jazz; Sierra Arts
Professor Emeritus: Truckee Meadows Community College
Scott Birmingham KTVN Channel 2 News
Presenter: Filmmaking Workshops at TMCC and local high schools
Award Winner: American Film Institute; The Communicator Awards; Berkeley Video & Film Festival; The Videographer Awards; Reno Film Festival (2004)
Co-Founder: Runaway Films
Member: The Las Vegas Film Critics Society
Paul McFarlane Washoe County School District - Hug High School
Board Member: Challenger Learning Center of Reno
Founder: Lumiere All-School Film Fest
Director: Lumiere All-School Film Fest