Louise Rosen

Louise Rosen is the Executive + Artistic Director of the Maine Jewish Film Festival. She began working with MJFF in November 2012. Her key responsibilities are to work with the board to program and manage the festival, fundraise and serve as spokesperson. Louise is a media executive with over 25 years experience in all areas of the international television and film business. Her projects have included Oscar, Emmy, Sundance, Prix Italia and International Emmy-winning films. After many years as a distributor, she launched an agency in 1996 to focus on working with independent non-fiction producers as an editorial and business consultant, sales agent and distributor. Louise tutors and lectures annually at Documentary Campus Master School and at festivals and conferences including DOKLeipzig, IDFA, Thessaloniki and HotDocs. She is on the Advisory Board of the Independent Feature Project/NY and the Board of Directors of the Maine Media Workshops + College where she also chairs the Programming Committee. She is former Vice Chair of the Maine Film & Video Association and continues to serve on their Advisory Committee. She is also the co-founder of Movies in the Park, a free summer screening series of Hollywood films in Brunswick.