Renee Contreras

Development

Renée Contreras has a strong passion for film education and the arts.  She has an extensive background in non-profit fundraising, event production, and marketing.  During her career, she has worked with various non-profits and organizations such as Readers 2 Leaders, Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas, and the Dallas Film Society.  

At Readers 2 Leaders she served as the Development Manager where she was responsible for prospecting, securing, and stewarding individual donors and corporate sponsors while conducting individual and annual campaigns.  At Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas, she managed and executed multi-million-dollar fundraising events that generated 15% of the agency revenue. While leading a team, she developed and implemented fundraising strategies to achieve agency financial goals of $16 million-plus annually. 

Film education and the arts are a huge passion of Renée's. During her time at the Dallas Film Society, she was the Director of Membership, Education, and Outreach where she programmed all the educational shorts, produced High School Day and Family Day during the Dallas International Film Festival.  

Renée Contreras is a native of Dallas and a graduate of Southern Methodist University with a Bachelor of Arts in Film and TV. She is a huge fan of classic film and all things Judy Garland. 

Grayson Micaela

Public Relations Associate

Grayson Micaela is a 21 year old multi-faceted artist and honors graduate from Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts (Dallas, Texas). On track to obtain her Bachelor’s in Communications with a focus on Public Speaking and PR, and armed with her extensive background in the arts, along with ongoing training under industry professionals, Grayson is your go-to go-getter Social Media/PR Manager, multi-media artist and musician, nanny, (almost) 200 hour yoga teacher, business owner and lifelong lover of all things artistic. 

Enam Victor

Lab Technician

Enam Victor is the lab technician for pegasus and will be helping with technical difficulties. His background is in 2D animation, he likes to draw for fun and he will be giving a lecture on basic animation techniques during the program.  He looks forward to working with you. 

Raquel Chapa

Digital Marketing

With a Masters in Museum Science from Texas Tech University,  She has worked at the Smithsonian, WGBH, and National Geographic and is the longtime Managing Director for the oldest film festival in Dallas - DallasVideoFest.  When not watching movies Raquel can be found birdwatching or buying more plants much to her family’s consternation.  This Summer she is also happily busy as a Mentor for the First 2021 Planet911 EarthxYouth Fellowship

Kelly Kitchens

Media Relations/Film Publicist

As a former journalist, Kelly Kitchens became a film publicist for more than 20 years. Kelly is the publicist for many North Texas film festivals including Dallas VideoFest, Pegasus Film Festival, and Frame4Frame Film Festival, and independent films that play at other film festivals. She is also the publicist for Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas in DFW.

CJ Camot

Web Master

Joel "CJ" Camot Jr. is an aspiring filmmaker, photographer, and musician.  He was the producer of the Pegasus Film Festival during the 2020-21 festival cycle.  Among other things he did for the festival, he designed the website, which lead him here.  He is a former IB Film student who has recently graduated from Alcuin School in Dallas, Texas.  In the fall he will be attending the Moody college of communications at the University of Texas at Austin.  He will be majoring in Radio, Television, and Film.