This year the jury will be composed of:

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Lara J. Nettelfield is a Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom. Previously she was a Visiting Associate Research Scholar at Columbia University's Harriman Institute. She is author of Courting Democracy in Bosnia and Herzegovina: The Hague Tribunal's Impact in a Postwar State (Cambridge University Press, 2010), winner of the 2011 Marshall Shulman book prize, and Srebrenica in the Aftermath of Genocide (with Sarah E. Wagner) (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming). She has also written for publications such as the Los Angeles Times, Globe and Mail, and Vancouver Sun. Her research and teaching interests include transitional justice, human rights, forced migration, political violence, social movements, democratic transitions, and international intervention.

A political scientist by training, Nettelfield received Ph.D., M.Phil. and M.A. degrees from Columbia University and an A.B. degree from the University of California, Berkeley. She has lived, worked, and researched in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Ukraine, France, Belgium, Spain and the United Kingdom. She is an avid consumer of film and has organized dozens of screenings to complement her teaching and field research. In addition to Be Film, she never misses the Sarajevo Film Festival.

ACTOR/PRODUCER

Born and raised in Toronto, Ron Basch knew from a young age that he 
wanted to be an actor.   
 Ron started his training in Gas Town, British Columbia and then followed 
his passion for the craft to New York and Toronto, where he studied with 
acclaimed acting coaches like Bruce Clayton, Kevin McCormick, Jacqueline 
McClintock, Miriam Lawrence, and Ginger Howard Friedman.    
He is a veteran of the commercial world with appearances in ads for MTV, 
Casino Rama, Subway, eTrade and more.  He has also utilized his 
versatile acting abilities in television and film roles, such as 
"Masterminds", "3 Stories", "Mystic", and "The Listener", in which he made a star appearance.  Ron's recent work in the independent film scene has led to the creation of 
his new production company, Red Sneakers Media.   The company has 
three award winning films, "Alchemy", "Remote" and "The Elusive Man" 
under its belt.  His company also produced "Cellar", and co-produced 
"Pronouncing", "Man Down" and "40 Years Younger" with Film PaniK and 
Wildcard Pictures. 
But Ron's driving force is, and always will be, acting. Whether it is 
commercials, television or film, Ron's goal is the same: to make an 
intimate connection with the audience. 

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 �Stories 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. Produced A-List NY for Endemol (right now producing season 2), and produced a new reality series for Tru TV called Big Brian the Fortune Seller.

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Paul Aaron Johnson was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1957, and currently lives and works in New York City as a 3D lenticular photographer, and as an Emmy Award winning director of animation and special effects.

Johnson earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from The Cooper Union in 1979. It was there that he first became interested in 3D photography and other 3D imaging techniques from his professor Alfons Schilling. Alfons Schilling is an expert in field of 3D imaging techniques, and experimented with almost every method known, as well as developing a number of his own. Johnson also studied 3D printmaking from Gerald Marks, another 3D artist at The Cooper Union who taught him the 3D anaglyph silkscreen process that he perfected. It is one of the only anaglyph methods to have absolutely no ghosting.

After graduation, Johnson began working as a directing/designer of animation and special effects. Over the next 25 years, he worked for several pioneering companies such as Filigree Films, R/Greenberg & Associates, and Lucas Arts Industrial Light and Magic. Throughout his career he's earned seven Gold and Silver Awards, and one Emmy Award for his animation work.

In 2004, Paul Johnson was drawn back to 3D photography to work with his professor from Cooper Union, Gerald Marks, on the NewSight auto-stereoscopic 3D display. The NewSight 3D computer display is an auto-stereoscopic system capable of displaying a range of 2 to 24 different views of a subject simultaneously without the need for special glasses, very similar to the 3D lenticular process.

Using his experience as an animator, Johnson then developed his own techniques for making digital lenticular prints to create a more permanent representation of his 3D photography without the need for a 3D display monitor, or special glasses. Paul Johnson's most recent work has been the development of methods for making the first 3D Shadowgraphs ever produced, loosely based on the Rayograph, or Photogram techniques.

ROBERT SWARTHE, has received two Academy Award nominations: one for his own Animation Short film, KICK ME and another as Visual Effects co-nominee for STAR TREK – THE MOTION PICURE. His interest in stereography began as a teen-ager after the entire Swarthe family saw BWANA DEVIL during it's original release 1952. He was especially impressed with the Walt Disney 3D animation short, MELODY. These films inspired him to draw his own primitive stereoptican cards and stereo photographs taken with his Kodak Hawkeye camera. He is a collector of anaglyphs of all kinds. His love of 3D continues and he looks forward to seeing ever more creative uses of 3D in all media in the years to come.

During his long motion picture career, he has directed many live-action and animated TV commercials and short films. His other major feature film credits include Steven Spielberg's CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE 3RD KIND (Animation Supervision) and Francis Coppola's ONE FROM THE HEART and THE OUTSIDERS (Special Visual Effects). Memberships include: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Short Films & Feature Animation Branch), Stereo Club of Southern California, New York Stereoscopic Society, National Stereoscopic Association

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Jimmy Picker is an Academy Award winning clay animator known around the world for his short films. His film, SUNDAE IN NEW YORK won the Oscar for Best Animated Short Film in 1983. Jimmy has also been nominated for an Academy Award for another short film, JIMMY THE C, in 1977. He also animated the famous Burger and Fries sequence in the 1985 feature film BETTER OFF DEAD. His latest opus THE AGE OF IGNORANCE is about how cavemen and cave women discover sex. He presently lives and works in Brooklyn.

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