Ellen Rembis – Quality Assurance Manager

Ellen Rembis
Quality Assurance Manager
Festival Liaison

Ellen is Mike’s wife of 23 years.  Originally from New York City, she and Mike first met in Montana, when she was a ranger in Yellowstone National Park. She completed a biology degree in Fish and Wildlife Management at Montana State University in Bozeman and soon went into the pharmaceutical industry to become a Quality Assurance Auditor.

She has over 15 years experience qualifying prescription drugs for human consumption based on USDA standards.  Poor batches would never make the cut, not on her watch.

Now, Ellen’s passion for film and those years of quality assurance experience gives us a tremendous advantage and an uncompromising edge in choosing our films.  Ellen makes sure our screeners are well aware of what they should be watching for and grading films in compliance with a standards process that creates a uniform scorecard and places all entries on equal footing before they are viewed.  Once screened, results are tabulated and recorded to see which films may end up being included as The Clearwater Film Festival Official Selections.