ERIN NICOLE PARISI

PRESIDENT

CO EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

TOPAZ FILM FESTIVAL 

Erin Nicole Parisi is an Emmy nominated, award winning filmmaker and photographer. She is the co-founder of Kinetigraf Entertainment. Her work includes features, shorts, industrials, commercials, brand campaigns and documentaries. Erin’s commercial clients include mayors, municipalities, musicians, businesses, nonprofits, and news outlets. She has worked with over 33 film festivals. Erin has served as the director of several film festivals, including Best of Fest Film Festival, Dallas VideoFest, and the Asian Film Festival of Dallas.

Erin has served on the Board of Directors for 13 nonprofits. She has been honored for her charity work by the City of Dallas and received the Otis and Rosie Brown Foundation’s ExtraordinaryIs Community Impact Award. Her company, Kinetigraf Entertainment, has donated over $600,000 in consulting, media, and design services to help local nonprofits and film festivals including sponsoring the Dallas International Film Festival, Women Texas Film Festival, and the Asian Film Festival of Dallas. She been an avid volunteer for organizations like Dallas CASA, Methodist Hospital, Scottish Rite Hospital, Our Children’s House at Baylor Hospital, and Habitat for Humanity. Erin believes that a life of service makes our shared community stronger and that “a rising tide lifts all boats.”

Erin has been a WIFD member and served on the Board in various leadership positions for the past 3 years: Secretary (2022); PSA Director (2023); and Director of Programs and Productions (2024). She has worked on and created: educational events; monthly speaker programs; 40th anniversary events and dinner; movie screenings; networking events; past presidents luncheon; website; filmmaker training seminars and symposium; panel discussions; PSA; and Scholastic Grant Fund. Erin became the President of Women In Film Dallas on January 1, 2025 and will be serving a two year term.

Contact ERIN at president@wifdallas.org