2026 JURY

NARRATIVE FEATURES JURY

Amy Nauiokas (Executive Producer, Can You Ever Forgive Me?)
Asher Grodman (Actor, Ghosts)
Brian Burns (Emmy®-Nominated Writer & Producer, Entourage)
Celine Rattray (Oscar®-Nominated Producer, The Kids Are All Right)
Keith Fraase (Emmy®-Nominated Editor, Severance)

DOCUMENTARY JURY

Traci Curry (Oscar®-Nominated Documentary Film Director & Producer, Attica)
Charlotte Kaufman (Oscar®-Nominated Documentary Filmmaker, The Alabama Solution)
Jon Bardin (Emmy®-Winning Producer, Racing Extinction)

US NARRATIVE SHORTS JURY

Karishma Dube (Student Oscar®-Winning Filmmaker, Bittu)
Ry Russo-Young (Writer & Director, Nuclear Family)
John Ortiz (Actor, Will Trent, Bad Monkey)

INTERNATIONAL SHORTS JURY

Madeleine Gavin (Editor, Beyond Utopia)
Sophie Gluck (Film Publicist & PR)
Àlex Laura (Filmmaker, The Masterpiece)
Alex Smith (Filmmaker, Walking Out, Winter in the Blood)

INDIE EPISODICS JURY

Alyssa Milano (Actor, Producer & Writer, Charmed, Insatiable)
Amy Hargreaves (Actor, Homeland)
Michael Cyril Creighton (Actor, Only Murders in the Building)

AI-GENERATED JURY

Ariana Taveras (Writer, Director & Producer, Crossing Over, Littlest Thing in the World)
Robert Wald (Director of AI Innovation, 1776 – The Hard Part, It’s Only Life)