The WHIFF Board of Directors includes prominent adisors from our region's most recognized professionals, influential Hollywood personalities, entertainers, and several other talented individuals.
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Martin
Deluca - Director / Producer, West Hollywood International Film Festival:
Martin
Deluca - Director / Producer, West Hollywood International Film Festival:
Martin De Luca founded the West Hollywood International Film Festival in
2008, and is excited to see the festival go in a bigger and better direction for
its second annual year. It is expected that the 2009 festival will be an
outstanding success, with many new countries participating. 12 countries have
already sent in submissions so far, including Japan, Holland, Spain, Italy,
United Kingdom, Canada, Argentina, and the United States, and many more are soon
to be announced. This will also be a great year for attending many new venues and
exciting parties related to the festival. It will once again be hosted in the
global village of West Hollywood, a wonderful cosmopolitan city that is full of
entertainment, nightlife, restaurants, and more!
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Katherin Kovin Pacino
- Producer/ Associate, West Hollywood
International Film Festival:
Born in Chicago, Illinois,
adopted daughter to Arnold and and the late Rozalind
Kovin of St. Louis, Missouri, owners of the Arnie
Kovin Jewelry store chain, also Arnex Watches. She
attended Orange Glen High in Escondido, California
in N. County San Diego, where she moved with her
parents as a teenager from St. Louis.
Her debut film was Holy Hollywood (1999), which was
a non-union film, where she played "Tyler's mom", a
principal part, then I Soldati (2002), where she had
a supporting role with husband Sal Pacino as his
love interest.
Katherin has worked as a makeup/fashion/image
consultant to companies such as Merle Norman,
Revlon, Clientele, and has done makeup promos for
Estee Lauder, Borghese, and and other famous lines,
as well. She has worked for public relation people
such as the late Irving Zussman in New York, also an
entertainment business manager, Martin Licker, CPA,
(who handled names such as James Caan, Gary Sinise
and several other celebs).
She was instrumental in starting the first ever West
Holywood International Film Festival with Martin
DeLuca, a Argentinian filmmaker and photographer, and
is now helping develop a WWII movie as a creative
producer. Katherin is also working as an actor.
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Dianna Renée
- Special Events , West Hollywood
International Film Festival
Before founding Surface Seven Pictures, LLC with her
partner, Michael Korbic, Dianna was Director of
Production for Landmark Global, USA before being
quickly
promoted to Vice President of Marketing. Dianna has
also worked with companies
such as Filmwerks Entertainment and Miramax Films.
Dianna’s 23 minute long-form short “Blink of an Eye”
(which she directed,
produced, wrote and edited) was featured in the
Cannes Short Film Corner this year and
just played as an official selection in the West
Hollywood International Film Festival and
the Beverly Hills Hi-Def Film Festival. Michael
Brown (Script Doctor and Consultant
on such movies as Braveheart, Apollo 13 and The
Shawshank Redemption) said Blink of
an Eye is “an intense, superbly acted film that tugs
at the emotions.”
Most recently, Dianna produced the Surface Seven
Pictures thriller “No Time to
Fear” starring Jimmy DeBello (Detroit Rock City,
Cabin Fever) and Louis Mandylor
(My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Redline).
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