"The mission of the festival is to showcase the best national and international short films in narrative, animation, documentary, experimental, spec, and 3D categories."
JURY
Every year we select a series of gifted professionals to jury the various categories of the festival - narrative, animation, commercial specs, and 3D.

Past jury members have included well recognized professionals in the film industry as well as Academy Members.

This year the jury will be composed of:
in the narrative Category

Anayansi Diaz-Cortes

Anayansi Diaz-Cortes is an Associate Producer for National Public Radio's, Radio Diaries, an organization that helps people document their lives for public radio. Anayansi has a background in International Affairs and Latin American Studies and alongside radio has curated and produced content for independent media publications, organized panels workshops and conferences around social-issue media, independent film, impact and distribution. Although producing radio has become her passion, she feels that learning how to get good stories to new spaces is just as important as knowing how to tell them.


Ali Hossaini

Ali Hossaini works on the cutting edge of film, television and interactive media. He has been an executive at several television channels, including LAB HD, Equator HD, Gallery HD, Oxygen, TechTV, Metro Traffic & Weather and NOW. As a network programmer he has developed a wide range of original programs, websites and social networks. Many of his projects have involved international partners, and he has developed coproduction relationships in major markets in Europe, Asia and Australia.
He is currently president of Pantar, a film and television company that specializes in talent-driven projects. Previous projects include the Voom Portraits, which includes performances by Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp, Salma Hayek, Winona Ryder, Robert Downey, Jr, Princess Caroline of Monaco, Sean Penn, Juliette Binoche and other cultural icons. He also produced Self-Portrait, a film by Dennis Hopper.
Hossaini is active as a filmmaker, artist and producer. He serves on the advisory boards of Anthology Film Archives and the Water Mill Center for the Arts and Humanities. His productions are permanently installed at the American Museum of the Moving Image, and they have been exhibited at the Lincoln Center, the Whitney Biennial, SF Cinemateque, Pacific Film Archives, Anthology Film Archives, PS1/MoMA, the Tribeca Film Festival, the Montreal Festival of Film on Art, Couvent des Cordeliers, The Hackney Empire and other international venues..


Gregory Pace

After starting his career in television, Pace worked as Director of Production for Alec Baldwin's El Dorado Pictures, where he identified, developed and produced new projects. He was Associate Producer on The Confession and served as a liaison between Baldwin and various studios and producers during the filming of Ghosts of Mississippi, The Edge and Mercury Rising. He left El Dorado to begin his own production company, Kismet Films. Pace has produced, written and directed several feature-length documentaries as well as created a documentary series for the Sundance Channel, entitled Positive Voices. He has also produced projects directed by Joel Schumacher, Liev Schreiber, Rosie Perez and Bart Freundlich. He wrote, produced, and directed an hour-long documentary, featuring Gloria Reuben entitled Positive Voices: Women and HIV, which is currently airing on Showtime. He has produced the independent feature films, Overnight Sensation, Don't Explain and Seven and a Match (assoc prod), as well as three short films including one with Joel Schumacher Productions. This Fall he will produce ÏStories Left to TellÓ, written by Spalding Gray. Whoopi Goldberg will produce the project with him as well as appear in it. The cast also includes John C Reilly, Liev Schreiber, John Leguizamo, and Eleaine Stritch, among others. He has produced commercial spots and corporate films for many national entities including Frito-Lay, Procter & Gamble, Pfizer, JA Henckel cutlery, and Cable Positive. Pace has won numerous awards including; ADDY, TELLY, and FREDDIE awards, a ProMax Golden Muse award and a Ribbon of Hope award from the Television Academy of Arts and Sciences for his documentary, commercial and corporate productions. Pace received his Bachelor's degree from Syracuse University and has a Master's in film and television production.


in the 3D Stereoscopic Category

Scott Sindorf

Co founder of UVPHACTORY, an award-winning motion design, visual effects and production company. UVPHACTORY is known for its creative work for film, television, 3D stereoscopic music videos and art installations. Since the company’s formation in 2000, UVPH has attracted a diverse client base including Adobe, AOL, AT&T, BET, Coca-Cola, ESPN, FOX Sports, General Electric, HBO, IBM, IFC, Johnson & Johnson, MTV, NBC, SyFy Network, USA, VH1, WE Network, and Xerox, among others.


in the Animation Category

Geoge Griffin

Animator, independent filmmaker, writer, flipbook artist, commercial producer, Griffin has been active in New York City since the late 60s. He has made over 30 personal films, from one to 30 minutes long (collected as Griffiti Archive). The latest, The Bather, was shown at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival and Film Forum.
He has directed commercials at Colossal Pictures; line-produced LHistoire du Soldat for PBS- Great Performances; installed his animation at Artists Space; published Frames, an anthology of independent animators; taught at Harvard, Pratt, Parsons, CAFA (Beijing); had retrospectives and juried numerous film festivals; written articles in Film Comment, Asifa Magazine, Cartoons, Entertext, Art-Rite, Journal of the University Film Association, Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal; his work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art. He is a member of ASIFA and AMPAS.