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Advisory Board<\/h1>\n

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One of Us! One of Us! Our Advisory Board Members<\/h2>\n

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Bente Maalen<\/h3>\n

Bente Maalen is a film producer with the production company Blaane Film, and is a founder and Producer of Ramaskrik Horror Film Festival in Norway. She had her debut as a producer with two short films in the fall of 2019 and has several feature films and tv-series in the pipeline.<\/p>\n

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Cory Bowles<\/h3>\n

An actor, director, screenwriter, dancer and choreographer born in Montreal and grew up in Truro, Nova Scotia. He is an African-Nova Scotian, most known for his directorial feature debut, Black Cop (TIFF 2017) and his recurring role on Trailer Park Boys.<\/p>\n

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Josh MacDonald<\/h3>\n

Writer-director of the award-winning horror short GAME. Also the writer of the horror feature THE CORRIDOR (IFC Films), which won Josh the \u201cNext Wave\u2014Best Screenplay Award\u201d at Austin, Texas\u2019 influential FANTASTIC FEST.<\/p>\n

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Kjetil Omberg<\/h3>\n

Kjetil Omberg, CEO and part owner of the Norwegian production shingle 74 Entertainment, has been working in the local biz since 1994. He made the move into production after fifteen years with distribution, including five years as head of publicity at Sandrew Metronome Norway, which released Warner Bros. pics in the territory.<\/p>\n

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Donna Davies<\/h3>\n

Donna Davies is a writer, producer, director, and owner of Ruby Tree Films. Davies has made dozens of award-winning films that have screened at festivals internationally and aired on networks such as CBC, Bravo, The Movie Network, IFC, HBO, Netflix, Hulu, Starz, and EPIX.<\/p>\n

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Todd Brown<\/h3>\n

An experienced festival programmer and founder of ScreenAnarchy.com, Todd joined XYZ Films in 2009 as Head of Int. Acquisitions. He’s served as producer or EP on a wide range of Cannes, Toronto and Sundance titles such as THE RAID, SPRING, BUSHWICK, XX and many more.<\/p>\n

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One of Us! One of Us! Our Advisory Board Members<\/h2>
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Bente Maalen<\/h3>

Bente Maalen is a film producer with the production company Blaane Film, and is a founder and Producer of Ramaskrik Horror Film Festival in Norway. She had her debut as a producer with two short films in the fall of 2019 and has several feature films and tv-series in the pipeline.<\/p>

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Cory Bowles<\/h3>

An actor, director, screenwriter, dancer and choreographer born in Montreal and grew up in Truro, Nova Scotia. He is an African-Nova Scotian, most known for his directorial feature debut, Black Cop (TIFF 2017) and his recurring role on Trailer Park Boys.<\/p>

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Josh MacDonald<\/h3>

Writer-director of the award-winning horror short GAME. Also the writer of the horror feature THE CORRIDOR (IFC Films), which won Josh the \u201cNext Wave\u2014Best Screenplay Award\u201d at Austin, Texas\u2019 influential FANTASTIC FEST.<\/p>

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Kjetil Omberg<\/h3>

Kjetil Omberg, CEO and part owner of the Norwegian production shingle 74 Entertainment, has been working in the local biz since 1994. He made the move into production after fifteen years with distribution, including five years as head of publicity at Sandrew Metronome Norway, which released Warner Bros. pics in the territory.<\/p>

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Donna Davies<\/h3>

Donna Davies is a writer, producer, director, and owner of Ruby Tree Films. Davies has made dozens of award-winning films that have screened at festivals internationally and aired on networks such as CBC, Bravo, The Movie Network, IFC, HBO, Netflix, Hulu, Starz, and EPIX.<\/p>

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Todd Brown<\/h3>

An experienced festival programmer and founder of ScreenAnarchy.com, Todd joined XYZ Films in 2009 as Head of Int. Acquisitions. He's served as producer or EP on a wide range of Cannes, Toronto and Sundance titles such as THE RAID, SPRING, BUSHWICK, XX and many more.<\/p>","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1521","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellifax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellifax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellifax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellifax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellifax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1521"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/hellifax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2027,"href":"https:\/\/hellifax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1521\/revisions\/2027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellifax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}