People
Gauthier Raad
Filmmaker – Film Festival Director
Gauthier Raad is a filmmaker, editor and producer. He graduated with two Masters in Production and Film Directing. Gauthier has participated in several festivals with his documentaries and short films and has won numerous awards. He is the founder of the Lebanese Independent Film Festival – LIFF , the Fantasy Film Festivals – Le Festival du Film du Fantasme in Paris and CIFF the Canadian Independent Film Festival and is a founding member of many other festival. Gauthier has worked in many well-known companies and Festivals such as Avignon Festival and France 24 News channel.
Dineta Williams-Trigg
Filmmaker – Film Festival Director
Dineta Williams-Trigg is an American Film, and Stage Actor. She is the owner, and proprietor of Full Figure Productions, whose mission, is to positively affect every human soul that she makes contact with through her storytelling, and lots of hugs. She created her own film festival ‘A Night of Misfit Films’ in its fifth year, to provide other filmmakers the opportunity to screen unseen works. Dineta is extremely honored to be a part of The Lebanese Independent Film Festival and truly believes that as creatives, “Our Voices Can Change The World”.
JOhn Trigg
Audiovisual Director
He plans, designs, and oversees the AV direction of many Festivals.
Chris MCLennan
FearCon Director
She has several businesses that we run. But the most thought provoking one has been, for the last 14 years, their film festival/convention – The Phoenix FearCON.
Kim A. Huenecke
Worldwide Women Founder
Kim is a marketing professional and an actor known for her work in the local film community with several short films and feature films. She volunteers in the local community working with other local film festivals and women’s organizations. Kim is an advocate for others and loves to highlight the good things that are happening in the community.
Traci Wallace
Theater Manager
Keenan Murray
Jury Member
Keenan Murray is a writer, producer, director and editor. He wrote his first feature screenplay, The Lost Treasure of Captain Blood, in 2000 which he later adapted as novel. His children’s action-adventure script was inspired by his childhood dreams of swashbuckling pirates and buried treasure while roaming the beaches of North Carolina. Over the years he has written several other feature films, as well as writing and directing his own short films. Keenan is a Registered Professional Geologist in Arizona with over 20 years’ experience and has been an adjunct professor at Glendale, Scottsdale, and South Mountain Community Colleges. When he isn’t working on his next potential blockbuster script, he enjoys picking his guitar or climbing the crags with his friends who inspired his screenplay, Over the Crux.is a writer, producer, director and editor. He wrote his first feature screenplay, The Lost Treasure of Captain Blood, in 2000 which he later adapted as novel.
His children’s action-adventure script was inspired by his childhood dreams of swashbuckling pirates and buried treasure while roaming the beaches of North Carolina. Over the years he has written several other feature films, as well as writing and directing his own short films.
Keenan is a Registered Professional Geologist in Arizona with over 20 years’ experience and has been an adjunct professor at Glendale, Scottsdale, and South Mountain Community Colleges. When he isn’t working on his next potential blockbuster script, he enjoys picking his guitar or climbing the crags with his friends who inspired his screenplay, Over the Crux.
Toy Taylor
Jury Member
Toy Taylor is the owner of The Creative Toy Box, an exclusive beauty boutique specializing in hair care and makeup services for the individual client. She has been in business for over 30 years, and has learned to treat each client with complete exclusivity.
Toy currently works in the film industry providing makeup, hairstyling and special effects for various productions.
She is the creator of Be Your Own Glam Squad makeup class where you are guided step-by-step in applying your own makeup like a pro. It is her passion to help others achieve their makeup goals one brush stroke at a time.
She has created outstanding works for film, weddings, music videos, New York Fashion Week and exclusive events. Within the beauty industry Toy helps others achieve self-care to live peacefully in a world of self-acceptance. She is a Solutionist at heart.
Jim McLennan
Jury Member
Movie critic and cinephile.