NARRATIVE SHORTS JURY
Luke Matheny is a filmmaker, writer, and actor based in Santa Monica, California. His short film “God of Love” won the Oscar for Best Live Action Short at the Academy Awards in February. The movie was his thesis project at New York University’s graduate film program. He is currently developing a feature comedy entitled Ron Quixote.
Alicia Van Couvering’s first film as a
DOCUMENTARY SHORTS JURY
Ingrid Kopp is Editor-in-Chief of Shooting
People—an international networking organization for independent filmmakers with over 38,000 members. She began her career in the Documentaries department at Channel 4 Television in the UK. Ingrid teaches Digital Bootcamp workshops for filmmakers focusing on audience engagement and harnessing technology for storytelling. She is also the New Media Consultant for the Tribeca Film Institute New Media Fund.
Eliza Licht
producer, Tiny Furniture, won the SXSW Film Festival in 2010. Other production credits include Barbara
is the Vice President of Community Engagement and Education at the the award-winning PBS documentary series POV. She works with public
Kopple’s My Generation, Phil Morrison’s Junebug, and Todd Solondz’s Palindromes and Life During Wartime.
television stations, educators, and community-based organizations to present community screenings of POV
She is a contributing editor to Filmmaker Magazine and in 2010 was named a Creative Producing Fellow of the Sundance Institute.
films and to develop and distribute accompanying educational resource materials to audiences nationwide.
Rose Vincelli
Bill Ross’ first feature-length film, 45365, was the
is the Program Manager for the Independent Filmmaker Project, specifically focusing on curating and producing the Independent Filmmaker Labs, a workshop assisting first-time directors with finishing and exhibition strategies for their features in post-production. From 2005-07 Rose was a programmer for the SILVERDOCS Documentary Festival.
Roger Beebe
is a professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of Florida. He has screened his films around the globe with recent solo shows at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Anthology Film Archives in New York, and other venues. In addition to his work as a filmmaker, he is also a film programmer: he ran Flicker, a festival of small gauge film in Chapel Hill, N.C., from 1997-2000 and is currently Artistic Director of FLEX, the Florida Experimental Film Festival.
Liz Dunnebacke’s professional career began
ANIMATED SHORTS JURY
Stephen David Beck serves as Direc-
tor of the Red Stick International Animation Festival in Baton Rouge. He is also Area Head for the CCT’s Cultural Computing focus area and directs the AVATAR Initiative, a multidisciplinary hiring initiative for research and education in digital media. He is currently the Derryl and Helen Haymon Professor of Composition and Computer Music at the LSU School of Music.
Rachel Morgan
over 20 years ago as a script-reading intern at Columbia/ TriStar. Her film and TV production experience ranged from property development for Comedy Central to freelance work on PBS television documentaries. In 2007 she was appointed Director of the New Orleans Video Access Center’s Louisiana Film Crew Training Program, and in 2008 she was promoted to Executive Director, the position she now holds.
is Lead Programmer for the Sidewalk Film Festival in Birmingham, Alabama. She is also a film educator and is currently the Director and Instructor of the Media Production Department at Lawson State Community College, as well as a Co-Instructor of documentary film at the University of Alabama. Prior to her work as a festival Programmer and film educator she worked as a commercial Producer for 8 years in S.C, Georgia, and New York.
Paweł Wojtasik is an internationally recog-
Richard O’Connor began his life in anima-
nized video and installation artist whose work has been shown at PS1/MoMA; The Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain; and others. His 360° panoramic video installation Below Sea Level was concerned with the plight of New Orleans and will be part of the Prospect 2 Biennial in New Orleans later this year. Wojtasik was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship for 2012.
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EXPERIMENTAL SHORTS JURY
winner of 2009’s SXSW Grand Jury Award for Best Documentary Feature. He has gone on to receive numerous awards and nominations, including the Independent Spirit “Truer Than Fiction” Award and nominations for Editing, Cinematography, and Debut Feature at the Cinema Eye Honors. His next feature, Tchoupitoulas, was shot in New Orleans and is due out next year.
tion as an assistant to R. O. Blechman at his legendary New York studio, The Ink Tank. In 2003 he formed Asterisk Animation where he produced and directed animation for feature films such as The Stepford Wives and White Countess. He also teaches at Parsons School of Design.
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