Cleveland | Youth and Families
Beth Steele Radisek is the Special Programs Director at the Cleveland International Film Festival, where she manages FilmSlam, the educational media literacy program and mini-festival of films for students. FilmSlam® aims to educate students about evaluating and critiquing the messages they perceive while viewing films by some of the world’s most innovative filmmakers. FilmSlam 2019 impacted 11,087 middle school, junior high, and high school students from 127 schools. Her next venture will spearhead an inaugural educational outreach effort called FilmSlam Road Trip, a program that will take the FilmSlam experience to students unable to attend the Festival. Beth also manages a team that oversees over 1,000 volunteers who welcome more than 100,000 attendees to 600+ Festival programs that take place over 12 days on an annual basis. In addition, she supervises the judging process for over 4,000 submissions of films to the Festival each year. Beth is a Marriage Officiant and volunteers for Honor Flight Cleveland, the USO, Euclid High School Alumni Association (as President), Euclid Schools Foundation, and Ronald McDonald House.
