Management Team
Mar 24th, 2009 by admin
Before You Submit’s team has been in the film festival, filmmaking business since 1999, and shows no sign of ever slowing down. Having filled out thousands of rating sheets for films, and selecting what films go into half a dozen festivals, Before You Submit plans on helping thousands more get into thousands of festivals.
Brian Quain – President
Brian graduated from the film program at Full Sail Real World Education, with an award in Film History in 2000. In addition to experience in the creative side of the film industry, Brian created the film critiquing website “Resolution 365″ in 2002, in which he rated a different theatrical releases daily for 365 days while publishing his review online. The success of the website lead to a position as Programming Coordinator for the Florida Film Festival. Brian currently sits on multiple selection committees with FFF, reviewing Narrative, International, and Midnight Feature/Short films. With anytime time left over, Brian continues to finalize his first book and travel the film festival circuit viewing and pursuing films.
In addition to his years of experience as Programming Coordinator with FFF, Brian has also worked with many film festivals including: Tribeca Film Festival (Programming/Filmmakers), Orlando Film Festival (Programming), Daytona Beach (Programming), Café Shorts (Director Of Film Acquisitions), Campus Movie Fest (Filmmaker), South Asian Film Festival (Programming), Brouhaha (Programming).
Vanessa Quain – Business Support Manager
Vanessa Quain has a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of Central Florida. With an educational background in human resources management, Vanessa has nine years of hands on experience in the human resources, administrative, and accounting fields. Vanessa also possesses film experience and has several years volunteer experience with the Florida Film Festival, and is familiar with many different facets of the film industry.
Matthew F. Reyes – Chief Project Manager
Matthew does not bring a traditional entertainment industry resume to Before You Submit. Well versed in videography and video editing, Matthew has thousands of hours of video project management and microgravity filming experience with his former employer, Zero Gravity Corporation. As the founder of Exploration Solutions, Matthew has also traveled to the corners of the earth capturing rare footage from places such as the Canadian Arctic and the Galapagos Islands.
Currently, Matthew is utilizing his business development and project management experience on several web and social media projects that are ‘under-the-hood’ here at Before You Submit.
