Team

Steven Beauregard graduated from Vassar College in 2007 and moved to San Francisco shortly afterward. At Fandor, he fills a variety of marketing and communications roles and handles social media activity for the company. In his spare time, he likes to frequent the many independent movie theaters in San Francisco and dabbles in screenwriting. His favorite directors include Robert Altman, Brian de Palma and David Lynch.

Favorite Fandor film
Slacker

Starting a career of attending movie theaters solo in high school, Sabrina Bruning likes to sit in the furthest row back – or what she likes to call the "back-back" – and just get lost for a little while until the credits roll. She keeps the Fandor phone lines lit when it's 9 p.m. and users need their account password reset, or you know, just a friendly chat.

Favorite Fandor film
PressPausePlay

Formerly a librarian/deckhand/private eye, Tom Fritsche keeps an eye on the details so you won't have to.

Favorite Fandor film
Sins of the Fleshapoids

Writer wrangler Susan Gerhard has been working in publishing for the past 20 years, focusing on the wide world of art and independent filmmaking. She's spent time as a Sundance fellow, published in national magazines and climbed Mount Kilimanjaro. Her newest challenge as editor in chief of Fandor’s film journal, Keyframe, is creating an entertaining, informative publication about the best in cinema.

Favorite Fandor film
Ichi the Killer

A rocket scientist by training, Joseph Herrle assists the production team with analytics, SEO, email integration, and main-stage propulsion. When he's not bringing indie films to the masses, he's usually recreationally jumping off of buildings or writing short fiction, but never both at the same time. His current mood is reflective and his favorite ordered sequence is the set of all reals.

Favorite Fandor film
Home

Anne Hockens fell in love with the movies when she watched The Thin Man as a child. Her lifelong passion for film led her into her first career, video retail, working for several outstanding independent video stores. Her pronounced love of film noir has manifested itself in her position as the Director of Communications for the Film Noir Foundation. For Fandor, she happily works with the whole staff to keep company operations running smoothly.

Favorite Fandor film
The Blue Angel

David Hudson has been fascinated with the potential of online publishing since the days before there was such a thing as a browser. Based in Berlin, David's translated screenplays and contributed to a wide variety of American and German publications. Since May 2003, the Daily, in its various incarnations at GreenCine, IFC, MUBI, and now, Keyframe, obsessively tracks goings on in the world of cinema.

Favorite Fandor film
Yella

Alexander Kosma proudly handles encoding films for streaming on Fandor. He possesses an intimate knowledge of the Fandor library and is excited to be constantly working hands-on with upcoming films for the service. A fan of short films of all kinds, Alexander has a special fascination for Jan Svankmajer's dark and surreal work.

Favorite Fandor film
The Last Track

Nick Kosma first entered the world of film doing independent projects for the 24-Hour Film Festival in Virginia. After serving in the military for four years he moved to California and began doing production assistant work for films. Now he is bringing excellent customer support to film lovers in need!

Favorite Fandor film
The Shaolin Drunken Monk

Kevin B. Lee is a film critic, filmmaker, and producer of over 100 video essays. He also serves as VP of Programming and Education for dGenerate Films, the only specialty distributor of Chinese independent cinema in the U.S. Kevin served as supervising producer of Roger Ebert Presents At the Movies, and has written on film for Sight & Sound, the Chicago Sun-Times, Time Out and Cineaste.

Favorite Fandor film
Street Angel

Justin Nixon has spent the last few years getting to know the engineering teams of several startup companies throughout the Bay Area. He likes to think he knows a lot about music and movies and has been known to make obscure references to both. He has rated over 1,000 movies on Netflix and is currently on a quest to see every movie in the IMDB Top 250.

Favorite Fandor film
Executive Koala

With over 15 years experience in the entertainment industry, Liz Ogilvie's main goal is to make Fandor a household name. Previously, she founded the marketing agency CrowdStarter, where she worked on release campaigns for a wide range of distribution companies. She has worked in executive roles at Tribeca Film, B-Side Entertainment, and New Video Group and serves on the IFP Advisory Board.

Favorite Fandor film
My Country, My Country

Tiffany Parker received a BFA in filmmaking from the San Francisco Art Institute. Prior to joining Fandor, she was involved with the San Francisco Cinematheque and was an active member of A.V. Collective Film. When she's not insuring the quality of the Fandor film library, she makes short films of her own and takes full advantage of the myriad of neat films she has at her disposal.

Favorite Fandor film
I Think I'm Missing Parts

Tim Pozar is a propeller-head that still remembers how to splice film. The first half of Tim's career was spent as a broadcast engineer, sometimes fixing telecine machines. In the last half, Tim has been helping to build various internet companies including San Francisco's first internet service provider, the first commercial anti-spam company, data centers and the occasional microwave link to the Farallon Islands.

Favorite Fandor film
Who Is Harry Nilsson?

Before YouTube and Wikipedia, Ryan Prendiville practiced for a 21st-century internet lifestyle by surfing pay-per-view channels on stolen cable and memorizing TV Guide movie synopses. Eventually he discovered the Criterion Collection, Pacific Film Archive and a university that briefly paid him to watch extremely violent movies. Besides working with the content team to get new titles ready to watch on Fandor, Ryan writes about music and nightlife in the Bay Area.

Favorite Fandor film
Ichi the Killer

A dyed-in-the-wool cinema nut, Michael Read has been working as a creative within the San Francisco film community for nearly a decade. Most recently, he served as Director of Digital Content at the San Francisco Film Society. For Fandor, he lovingly designs the website, working closely with the product and branding teams to create the best possible user experience for Fandor's many movie lovers.

Favorite Fandor film
Home

Dave Schweisguth is a veteran of several internet and, before that, biotechnology ventures. He directs Fandor's crack engineering team as little as he can get away with, preferring to spend his time replacing himself through automation and being distracted by the Fandor Channel. He is delighted to be using the web to, for a change, actually lengthen people's attention spans.

Favorite Fandor film
Le quattro volte