David Mills-Low • Film Festival Operations Manager
David’s resume is kinda wacky: 24 years working in theatre, a couple masters degrees, just shy of a dozen student and indy films, pizza delivery, landscaping, commercials casting, stay-at-home dad, and Customer Service Representative in Electronics at Kmart. After spending last year as Traffic Coordinator for the film festivals at the Roxy, David is excited to be taking on the role of Film Festivals Operations Manager and can’t wait to begin managing operations. His favorite operation is probably an appendectomy. Please feel free to reach out should you need any assistance concerning our many festivals, especially if operations are involved.
Mike Emmons • Programming Director
A lifelong Missoulian, Mike Emmons is the programming director of both MTFF and the Roxy Theater. Mike has a degree in English from Northwestern University, where his passion for film was first fostered at NU’s Block Cinema. A lover of dogs, beer, books, and of course, movies, Mike has worked at the Roxy for seven years.
Mike Steinberg • Executive Director of the Roxy Theater
Mike Steinberg is the Executive Director of the Roxy Theater, the mothership of the Montana Film Festival. Steinberg has over 30 years experience in filmmaking as a producer, writer-director, cinematographer and editor. He has worked with numerous film festivals as a producer, programmer and consultant. His own films have earned placement in national film festivals including AFI/Discoveryʼs Silverdocs (now AFIDOCS), Portland International Film Festival, Malta Film Festival, Big Muddy Film Festival, and St Louis International. He lives in Missoula, MT, where he writes, and makes films and live performances.
Josh Taira • Art Director
Josh Taira is the art director for the Roxy Theater, Montana Film Festival, International Wildlife Film Festival, and Kiddomatic Film Festival. In addition to the design work for the Roxy Theater and its many programs, he also does freelance illustration under the name Daruma Party. He watches a ton of anime, reads lots of romcom manga, plays lots of FFXIV, and has an insatiable hunger for tuna onigiri from Japanese 7-Elevens.
Sarah Ferguson • Communications & Membership Director
Sarah Ferguson (known by everyone as Fergie) is the Communications and Membership Director at the Roxy. Fergie hails from Minneapolis where she worked in copywriting and creative in the advertising industry until that sucked the soul from her body. She’s called Missoula home since 2014 and the Roxy home for just as long. She wears a lot of hats for the team including producing many festivals and heading up the Roxy’s marketing efforts. Movies, music, books, and tea seem to take up a lot of her time and brain space. You’ll often see her sprinting around the hallway and lobby, fumbling through intros, running a Q&A, and generally having a good time. She’s also a host of our radio show, Roxy Radio on 101.5.
Ian Carstens • Website Administrator
Ian Carstens manages the sites for IWFF, Kiddomatic, Queerwest and the Montana Film Festival. He is a filmmaker, writer and curator with a BA in Art Theory and Criticism currently based in the occupied lands known as the Midwest. After moving to Missoula in 2017, working for the Roxy Film Academy, the Roxy Theater itself, IWFF and MTFF (and now working remotely) there is no doubt that the Roxy continues to be his community cinema.
