Meet the Team
Julie Sisk
Founder & CEO, Take2Film, Founder, The American Pavillion
Originally from New York and a graduate of Vassar College, Julie Sisk began her career in film festival development, serving as Development Director for the Denver International Film Festival, AFI FEST, and the London Film Festival. She also worked as a television producer and received a Clio Award for her involvement in the celebrated Wells, Rich, Greene “I Love New York” advertising campaign.
Julie is the Founder and Director of The American Pavilion at the Cannes Film Festival, which she established in 1989. Over the past three decades, The American Pavilion has become one of the festival’s most recognized hubs for filmmakers, film students, journalists, and industry leaders, and its the Worldwide Student Program has helped thousands of emerging filmmakers experience Cannes from the inside.
Through her work at The American Pavilion, Sisk has spent decades opening doors for the next generation of filmmakers by giving them access to the global film industry at Cannes.
She is also the founder of Take2Film, a new venture that curates immersive travel experiences for cinephiles who want deeper access to international film festivals including Cannes, Venice, San Sebastián, and London.
Anne Maregiano
Production Manager and Liaison, Venice & Cannes
A graduate of Jean Rouch's Les Ateliers Varan film school in Paris, Anne Maregiano worked as a production assistant and Assistant Director for music documentaries before taking on her first documentary as Director (Timor Lorosae, Long Journey to Freedom, 2000). Her second film, L'Asso, was selected for the Créteil International Women's Film Festival (Film de Femmes) in 2001, followed by her first feature documentary, Charlemagne Palestine, The Golden Sound, which was selected by various Film Festivals in London, Naples, Perpignan and Paris. Making numerous films for such cultural institutions as the National Institute of Art History in Paris and the Ministry of Culture and Communication, Anne also directed Art of Learning in 2003, a documentary on the Oxbow Art School based in Napa Valley, as well as a essai in 2004, Jonas, Adolfas, Polas Journey in Paris, on two experimental directors Jonas & Adolfas Mekas.
Based in Lyon since 2012, Anne has been working on various film projects about physical disabilities and handicapped people. In December 2015, Anne completed a portrait series of blind people unable to live on their own. She made two documentaries in 2016 and 2017 on rare diseases for nonprofit organizations in France. She is finishing a sound and storytelling installation called A Sound Map, Trace to Trace, which will take place in France's first house for the blind, La Villa Saint-Raphaël in Lyon.
For the past year, she is been developing art projects and workshops that mix Gastronomy and Cinema like Histories' Gourmands. She has obtained her Diploma in Cooking two year ago. Now she is working with a camera in one hand and a knife with the other and she loves that.