7 minute read
BENDFILM JURY
JEANELLE AUGUSTIN Documentary Features
Jeanelle Augustin is a Haitian-American flm programmer and grants professional interested in redefning investment and embracing risk. Currently, Jeanelle leads the Original Voices Fellowship presented by NBCU Academy and NBC News Studios. She has programmed for CIFF, True/False, and Big Sky, led flmmaker labs and seminars for BlackStar Projects, Firelight Media, and UnionDocs, served on festival juries and funding panels for BAVC, Chicago Media Project, Creative Capital, Defne American, Doc Society, Film Independent, IDA, Mezcla Media, Open City, SFFILM, Sundance Institute, and was named a 2021 DOC NYC Documentary New Leader and selected for the 2022 Rockwood Documentary Leaders Fellowship supported by Ford Foundation.
BRETT CAMPBELL Indigenous/Environmental/Outdoor
Brett Campbell joined Red Bull Media House in 2015 to help manage Red Bull’s global documentary flm slate, and since expanded to look after Content Partnerships across all areas for the North American market. Brett has managed campaigns and for critically acclaimed and awarded documentaries including The Alpinist,
The Dawn Wall Dear Rider and
Narrative Features
Kim Kalyka
Kim Kalyka is a 20 year veteran of the independent flm industry who began her career at Miramax marketing such titles as Bridget Jones’ Diary and Amelie
In 2002, she joined IFC Films working on such flms as My Big Fat Greek Wedding Boyhood The Trip Blue is the Warmest Color Pina
Flee Worst Person in the World,
Collectively, these campaigns yielded millions in box offce and streaming deals with the likes of HBO, Netfix, Discovery, BBC, and Amazon. Brett’s passion lies in building opportunities for creatives, and fnding audiences for impactful, inspiring people and stories.
Any One of Us.
LIZ CARDENAS Narrative Shorts
(Tribeca 2021 | Cinedigm) and a 2019 Spirit Award Nominee for Never Goin’ Back
Liz Cardenas is a 2022 Independent Spirit Award winner for Duplass Brothers Productions’ 7 Days
(Sundance 2018 | A24). One of two narrative producers to receive the inaugural 2022 Dear Producer Grant (an unrestricted $50K grant), she was included in the 2019 LATINXT, a curated list of emerging Latinx creators from an initiative by Zoe Saldana, Robert Rodriguez and Lin-Manuel Miranda. Other notable credits include Alex Lehmann’s Acidman starring Thomas Haden Church and Dianna Agron (Tribeca 2022), and David Lowery’s A Ghost Story
(Sundance 2017 | A24), starring Rooney Mara and Casey Affeck.
JOHN COOPER Narrative Features
For three decades John Cooper was a member of the Sundance Film Festival programming team. In the early years, he moved from a programmer to the Director of Programming before eventually being named director in 2010. From 2010 to 2020 he oversaw all aspects of the annual Sundance Film Festival in addition to expanding ventures to Sundance Film Festival: London and Sundance Film Festival: Hong Kong. Other work includes guest curator and juror at major festivals around the world. From 1995 to 1998 Cooper also served as director of Outfest held annually in Los Angeles. In 2020 he was accepted into the Academy of Motion Pictures.
MATT FAGERHOLM Documentary Features
Matt Fagerholm is the Literary Editor at ROGEREBERT.COM and a member of the Chicago Film Critics Association. He spent four years writing flm coverage for HOLLYWOODCHICAGO.COM and has contributed to a variety of publications including Time Out Chicago,
Cave of Forgotten Dreams Currently an executive at NEON, she’s part of the team that released such notable titles as the Oscar nominated I, Tonya, Spencer
, and
Honeyland, and multi Academy-Award winning Parasite
Indigenous/Environmental/Outdoor
Laronn Katchia
LaRonn Katchia is an award-winning flmmaker and tribal member from the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, currently pursuing a passionate flmmaking career in Portland, Oregon. LaRonn grew up on the Warm Springs reservation and has lived there for 18 years of his life, transitioning to the city of Portland for flm school. His love and passion for flm reside from the infuence of the commonly mistreated portrayal of indigenous peoples in Hollywood flms today. LaRonn has recently worked on a behind-the-scenes featurette for the FX hit show Reservation Dogs
and helped shoot and edit the frst all-indigenous episode of PBS’ Roadtrip Nation: Native Way Forward in collaboration with Buffalo Nickel creative.
Documentary Features & Animated Shorts
Danielle Mccarthy Boles
Danielle McCarthy-Boles is the VP of Publicity at Magnolia Pictures. She has overseen publicity and promotion for independent flm hits including Man On Wire
Narrative Shorts & Animated Shorts
TALLIE MEDEL
Tallie Medel (diverse pronouns) is an educator, multidisciplinary artist, and award-winning actor in New York City. Medel is one-third of dance comedy trio Cocoon Central Dance Team and the host of Darling Tallie, a dance comedy show and party. Film credits include Everything Everywhere All at Once, Dan Sallitt’s Fourteen
and The Unspeakable Act Caleb Johnson’s The Carnivores and Joy Kevin, and Snowy Bing Bongs Across the North Star Combat Zone, a collaboration with Rachel Wolther, Alex H. Fischer and Cocoon Central Dance Team. They teach clown, they’re a gif, and they have big juicy eyeballs.
Indigenous/Environmental/Outdoor
Cara Jade Myers
No Film School and Magill’s Cinema Annual
The A.V. Club,
His writing/editing experience includes serving as Assistant A&E Editor at the Columbia Chronicle and interviewing such icons as Betty White, Ed Asner and Judy Collins for the Woodstock Independent. He is the founder of Indie Outlook, a blog featuring exclusive interviews with some of the most exciting voices in modern independent flmmaking.
JOANNE FEINBERG Indigenous/Environmental/Outdoor
Joanne Feinberg is an award-winning flmmaker and curator. She brings over 25 years of flm production experience, and thousands of hours of thoughtful flm viewing, to her work. She is currently the Senior Programmer at the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, and previously Director of Programming at the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival and the Ashland Independent Film Festival. Joanne graduated with honors from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts with a combined degree in Cinema Studies and Film & TV Production. A deep love and understanding of cinema informs all of her endeavors.
ROBIN HONAN Documentary Shorts & Animated Shorts
Robin Honan is an Academy Award-nominated flmmaker, and co-produced the Oscar-winning documentary Freeheld
Cara Jade Myers is a Native American actor and writer who is an enrolled member of the Wichita tribe. She was accepted into the fourth annual Native American Writers Lab where she developed a TV pilot from pitch to third draft, and was a semifnalist in the ABC/Disney writers’ program. In early 2020, Cara was among 12 selected as part of A3 Artist Agency’s The Colony program, creating a TV pilot that is now in pre-production. She fnished the year as a fellow of the Native American Feature Film Writers’ Lab. She has acted in a variety of indie and short flms. In 2019, she was cast in an episode of the Emmy-Award winning series, This is Us. In 2021, she wrapped her role as Anna Brown in Martin Scorsese’s upcoming flm, Killers of the Flower Moon
Documentary Shorts
Michael Scheuerman
Michael Scheurerman is an Oscar-nominated producer of Hunger Ward director Skye Fitzgerald’s short documentary on the war and famine in Yemen. His initial exposure to the flm industry was working on Havana
in 1990, Sydney Pollack’s narrative on the Cuban revolution flmed in the Dominican Republic. After 25 years in the tech industry, he retired in 2018. A Bend resident, Michael hikes, bikes, skis, and also serves on the Advisory Board of BendFilm.
Documentary Shorts
Jenny Shi
which was shortlisted for a Best Documentary Short Subject Academy Award in 2021. Her Oscar-nominated HBO flm Mondays at Racine follows a Long Island hair salon that offers free services to women undergoing cancer treatment, helping them restore a sense of beauty following the ravages of chemotherapy. With Ross Kauffman, she produced the short documentary Fire With Fire
In 2020, she produced the Netfix documentary What Would Sophia Loren Do?
, which currently has over 25 million views on YouTube, and tells the tale of a renegade oncologist who has cured leukemia in thousands of patients by using a disarmed form of the HIV virus to attack cancer cells.
ERIK JAMBOR Narrative Shorts
recently completing its festival run. He has served on the jury of numerous festivals including Slamdance, SXSW, and the Biograflm Festival in Bologna, Italy. Sometimes he plays ukulele.
Jiayan “Jenny” Shi is an Emmy-nominated documentary flmmaker who is passionate about stories that fnd shared humanity and compassion. Her debut documentary Finding Yingying has won numerous awards, including the Special Jury Recognition at the 2020 SXSW Film Festival and a China Academy Award of Documentary Films, and was nominated for an Emmy. Jenny’s work has appeared on Paramount +, MTV, BBC News, PBS NewsHour, among many others. Jenny is a graduate of Kartemquin’s Diverse Voices In Docs program, a Logan Nonfction Program fellow, a Women at Sundance Adobe fellow, and a DOC NYC “40 Under 40” flmmaker.
Narrative Features
EMILY ST. JAMES
Emily St. James is a senior correspondent at Vox, where she covers American identities. She was the frst culture editor for the site and the frst TV editor of The A.V. Club. Her writing has also appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the Criterion Collection, and
The Baffer She is the co-creator of the podcast Arden and co-author of the book Monsters of the Week: The Complete Critical Companion to the X-Files
She lives in Los Angeles with her wife and an ever-shifting number of cats.
Indigenous/Environmental/Outdoor and RBG among many others. McCarthy-Boles produced the critically acclaimed documentary Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me which was released theatrically nationwide by Magnolia Pictures in 2013 and was released internationally by Universal Music Group in 2014. She holds a BFA in Cinema Studies from New York University and an MA in Media Studies from The New School. OFFICIAL GUIDE 19TH ANNUAL IN-PERSON OCTOBER 6-9 | VIRTUAL OCTOBER 10-23, 2022
Elizabeth Zingg
Elizabeth Zingg (they/them) is a queer Ho-Chunk person who grew up in Phoenix, Arizona and spent much of their adult life in much of the southwest/northwest and thru-hiking up the east coast. With a passion for ecology and the political frameworks of tribal, state, and federal governments, they are currently pursuing a master’s degree at ASU Sandra Day O’Connor with an emphasis in Environmental Law, Tribal Sovereignty, and American Indian Law.
Shoplifters The Square and the Oscar-nominated documentaries I Am Not Your Negro BENDFILM JURY 2022 JURY OFFICIAL GUIDE 19TH ANNUAL IN-PERSON OCTOBER 6-9 | VIRTUAL OCTOBER 10-23, 2022
