Recently named Director of The Los Angeles Film Festival, Rebecca Yeldham has built a career championing films and filmmakers as a producer, festival programmer and production and acquisition executive.

Yeldham recently produced The Kite Runner, directed by Marc Forster (nominated for 2008 BAFTA and Golden Globe Awards), Linha de Passe, directed by Walter Salles and Daniela Thomas (winner best actress 2008 Cannes Film Festival), and the upcoming release Anvil! The Story of Anvil, directed by first timer Sacha Gervasi (2008 Sundance Film Festival, 2009 SXSW and Spirit Award nominee and Audience Award winner at the 2008 LA, Sydney, and Galway Film Festivals). Her first collaboration with Walter Salles was on the award-winning The Motorcycle Diaries (nominated 2005 Golden Globe and Spirit Awards and Winner BAFTA for Best Foreign language film and Academy Award for Best Song) and she is now his producing partner, in post production on the documentary Searching for On The Road with various projects in development, including On The Road, based on the seminal novel by Jack Kerouac.

Prior to becoming an independent producer, Rebecca served as Senior Vice President, Production at FilmFour and ran its U.S. production wing. She was formerly Senior Programmer of the Sundance Film Festival (1997-2001) and Associate Director of the Sundance Institute's International Programs responsible for organizing initiatives to support emerging screenwriters, producers and directors around the world. During this time she helped launch a next generation of filmmakers (including Marc Forster, Walter Salles, Miguel Arteta, Karyn Kusama, Chris Smith and Darren Aronofsky) and was credited with discovering and championing the most successful independent film of all time, The Blair Witch Project.

In the '90's Yeldham worked for various independent film companies, developing and acquiring independent and international features and documentaries. Between 1990-94 she served as Director of Acquisitions and Business Affairs for NY-based Fox/Lorber and Associates, acquiring such films as John Woo's first major US release, The Killer and George Sluizer's The Vanishing. Yeldham recently sat on Film Independent’s Executive Board and has served on several international film festival juries and selection committees including: the Edinburgh Film Festival, the Independent Spirit Awards, and the Buenos Aires International Film Festival. Born and raised in Australia, she studied law at Sydney University transferring to Brown University's Modern Culture and Media (Art/Semiotics) department where she graduated magna cum laude.