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A Pet Project PHOTO CAMPAIGN AIMED AT INCREASING TURNOUT FOR BOARD ELECTION T he Motion Picture Editors Guild on Thursday announced the new- ly elected or re-elected members of the Guild's 2021 Board of Directors and IATSE Convention Delegates. The Board members took office on January 1 and were officially inducted at the Guild's first Board meeting of the new year on January 9. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the annual Board Installation dinner that usually occured later in the evening was canceled. The Guild sent 8,235 ballots; 1,445 we re re t u r n e d — a re t u r n e d rate o f 17.55%. To help boost participation, the Guild invited members to send in photos of their pets with an "I Voted" sticker. Following is the list of members newly elected or re-elected to the Board during the recent election. (Members new to the Board are indicated by *.) ASSISTANT EDITOR Aziza Ngozi, Incumbent Scott A. Jacobs, Incumbent Sean Thompson, Incumbent Margaret Guinee, Incumbent Katie Rose Cornblath * Halima K. Gilliam (one year term) * EASTERN REGION Tom Fleischman, Incumbent Ivonne Loyola (Alternate) * EDITOR Dody Dorn, Incumbent Mary De Chambres, Incumbent Stephen Rivkin, Incumbent Shannon Baker Davis * MUSIC EDITOR Stephanie Lowry SOUND EDITOR Stephanie Brown Outgoing board members are: As- sistant Editor Michael Zurer, At Large Representative Paul Overacker, Editor Tatiana Riegel, and Eastern Region Alter- nate lightchild. The number of Delegates sent to the 2021 Convention and off-year District Conventions (delegates residing in the appropriate region) will be determined by the Board of Directors and selected based on the number of votes received in this election. ■ See pet photos on next page. 22 C I N E M O N T A G E G U I L D N E W S Assistant Editor Katie Cornblath.