meet the team

Raised in Rhode Island’s family theater business, Eric Bilodeau has programmed cinematic venues for over thirty years. His experience spans the film exhibition horizon, including advising and booking for multi-screen commercial cinemas, small art house theaters, a multitude of international film festivals and programming his own traveling pop-up venue, the Cricket Cinema. Running Providence’s beloved Cable Car Cinema for 18 years also sharpened his skills in a broad range of film genres. After selling the Cable Car in 2007, Eric became the Director of Programming for the Newport International Film Festival until accepting the Director of Programming role for the newly formed Providence Children’s Film Festival in 2010. During the next decade of programming he has attended and developed relationships with many North American and international youth film festivals while serving as a programming advisor for the International Kids Film Festival of India and Children’s Programmer for the Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival. In 2020 he became Executive Director of PCFF.

Cristin brings her enthusiasm for arts and community to her role as Interim Managing Director. She has spent many years in the Museum field working with artists, staff, donors, volunteers and community members to create meaningful art/music/dance/film experiences and is thrilled to leverage these skills for PCFF. Her own kids grew up with the film festival, and she is passionate about its value in building empathic, open minded and culturally curious young people.