Amanda Salazar

Director of Programming at Vidiots

Amanda Salazar is a film curator and arts advocate with a background in film festival programming, theatrical booking, arts organization administration, and digital distribution. She is the Director of Programming at Vidiots. Concurrently with her role she is the Senior Programmer of Narrative Features at the Sonoma International Film Festival and the co-Director of Camera Obscura, a yearly pop-up cinema held in Petaluma, CA that showcases obscure and experimental films. Her passion for serving independent artists led her to collaboratively co-found the Bay Area Media Makers Summit, a yearly gathering that focuses on the needs of makers in the Bay Area. Previously she was a Programmer with the UCLA Film & Television Archive, a short film Programmer at the Sundance Film Festival, Programmer at SFFILM, the Cinema Programmer at the Northwest Film Forum, and oversaw acquisitions at independent streaming companies Fandor and Argo. She holds a B.A. in Film Studies from Chapman University.