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Matt Salton, Executive Director

IMG_4489director@reelout.com
Matt Salton (he/him) has been a programmer and film festival organizer for the past 20 years. An original Reelout collective member, Matt was also the Festival Director of Calgary’s FairyTales Queer Film Festival and was the co-director/founder of the Slimebone City Horror Film Festival. Salton wrote and directed REALITY HIGH which was nominated for Best Student Film by the Alberta Film and Television Industry in 2009. He has been a guest juror at the Image + Nation Film Festival in Montreal and a curator for the Winnipeg REEL PRIDE festival & the Pink Life Film Festival in Ankara, Turkey. Salton majored in Business of Film at the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology and graduated with honours. Salton has served on the advisory boards of the Alberta Media Arts Alliance Society (07-09) , The City of Kingston Arts Advisory Committee (11-14) and MANO/RAMO (14-17, 22-present).

2023-2024 Programming Committee

Aksel Richard,  Matt Salton, Amillia Ho, Kel Martin, Tory Moar, Tyler Cyr, Tamara Lang, Jirjees Al-Shammaa, Jennifer Good, Mars Atkins, Angel Tucker, Izzy Myers-Tung

Amillia Ho, Festival Manager

 

 

 

 

 

Andi Wilder, Volunteer Coordinator

 

reeloutvolunteer@gmail.com

 

 

Griffen Penney, Technical Director

 

Vincent Perez, Graphic Designer

Parker Robb/Deanna Auger, Additional Graphic Design

Ruth Messier, Bookkeeper

Festival Staff

Sammy Chien

Francesca DiBona

Emma Epstein

Rachele Warburg-Levi

Guest Curators for ReelOut 25

Michelle Bunton

GHY Cheung

Tamara Lang

Dan Vena

Special Thanks to 25 years of service from our staff and collective!

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Richard Acosta Briceno

Mary Louise Adams

Kevin Alan

Matt Allen

Rai Allen

Troy Allen

Kevin Arjean

Emily Arvay

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Joseph Babcock

Alan Baird

Nancy Baird

Melodie Ballard

Justin Barath

Patrick Baud

Lindy Beauvaise

Kris Bergmann

Hilton Bertalan

Nael Bhanji

Keith Bilow

Megha Bissa

Veronica Blackburn

Julia Blakely

Patrick Brant

Chris Boodram

Jean Bruce

Micki Buie

Kat Burrows

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Brian Cannon

William Carroll

Kali Carys

Taryn Cates

Joe Chapman

Paul Clifford

Joshua Collins

Kevin Collins

Shannon Collins

Alison Cope

Anna Cordner

Charles Nathan Cossette-Bernard

Caitlin Cowan

Rya Cowperthwaite

Emily Cummins Woods

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Julie Darke

Henna Datt

Emma Daughton

Suzanne Day

Darrell Dean

Melissa Deleary

Anne Delorme

Meigan Dickinson

Andrea Doggett

Alysha Dominico

 

 

 

 

Susan Douthewaite

Libby Drew

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Yvonne Ehinlaye

Fitch Elron

Lenny Epstein

Sarah Eves

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Lauren Ferenbach

Marion Ferrer

Kendall Forde

John Freeman

Dan Fricker

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Rob Genoway

James Gibson-Bray

Amanda Girling

Monet Goudreau

Courtney Graham

James Greatrex

Nadia Guidotto

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Chris Hadwin

Ben Hall

Peter Hand

Paul Hanlon

Jennifer Hannah

Markus Harwood-Jones

Andrew Hayashi

Rachel Hazel

Carla Henderson

Elena Heighton

Aaliyah Hinds

Ani Hogan

Lauren Hortie

Elizabeth Howes

Hoosica Huang

RJ Hussey

Anna Hwang

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Theresa James

Sandra Jass

Carolyn Johanson

Alannah Johnson

Dhiv Joseph

Megan Joslin

Zoe Jurista

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Nikki Kauf

Kalanthe Khaiat

Gary Kibbins

Judy Kim

Jess Kincaid

Mitchell King

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Trevor Laforce

Mason Lam

Xiao Lin

Jingxing Lu

 

 

 

 

 

 

Heidi Lamont

Taylor Leeder

Rob Lesurf

Ben Leviton

Peggy Lin

Yiyang Liu

Cat London

Susan Lord

Lisa Luo

Lynn Ly

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Eleanor MacDonald

Larry Mackey

Josh Malm

Bonita Martens

Reid Martin

Steven Maynard

Marney McDiarmid

Leda McDonald

Janice McLean

Shelby McLeod

Cherie McMurray

Michael McNeely

Katelyn Grace McNeill

John McTavish

David Melrose

Mila Mendez

Kevin Merritt

Alexis Mitchell

Connie Morris

Adam Morrison

Carrie Morrison

Tim Murphy

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Benjamin Nelson

Johnny Ng

Robert Nielsen

Amy Nighbor

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James Owen

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Elisa Paloschi

Jessica Park

Gaby Parker

Karen Parsons

Katie Pearce

Katherine Pearce

Vincent Pérez

Arianna Pozzuoli

Jim Puckalo

Catherine Puffer

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Siyi Quan

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Rajeevan Rasenthiran

 

 

 

 

 

Kelly Rider

Kiley Rider

Niq Roadbike

Sarah Robayo Sheridan

James Robbins

Jason Rogers

Thomas Rogers

Madeleine Ross

Jessie Rust-Smith

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Joan Salton

Matt Salton

Laura Schaefer

Jim Seale

Caleb Seguin

Rachelle Seguin

Mark Sloan

Rosanna Smyth

Amanda Snider

Pamela Stamoulis

Nils Stefan

Mike Stringer

Blake St. John

Jason St-Laurent

Mike Stringer

Cheryl Sunder

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Stephan Tang

Tracey Taylor

Casey Telford

Pam Thompson

Dan Thomson

Benjamin Tollestrup

Max Tremblay

Ayse Turak

Argerie Tzouras

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Emily van der Meulen***

Jim Verburg

Aidan Vickery

Michael Vincent

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Johnny Waite

Tammy Wang

Jamey Wieser

Joanne Williams

Sydney Wilson

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Jiehui Yang

Zoe Yuristy

Jarret Zaroski

Agatha Zarzycka

Susan Zhang