Role Past Jurors

Tia Lessin is an Academy Award–nominated filmmaker and the recipient of a duPont-Columbia Award and three Emmys for her work on The Janes (2022, HBO), about the underground network of abortion providers in 1960s Chicago. Tia produced and directed (together…

Laura Nix is a director, writer, and producer working in non-fiction and fiction. Most recently she directed the feature documentary Democracy Under Siege for European television in 2024. Made in collaboration with Ann Telnaes, the editorial cartoonist and two-time Pulitzer…

Josh Kun is a Grammy-nominated cultural historian, curator, and author. He is the inaugural Vice Provost for the Arts at USC where he is Professor and Chair in Cross-Cultural Communication in the USC Annenberg School. His books include Audiotopia: Music,…

Michael Renov, professor of Critical Studies and Vice Dean for Academic Affairs, is the author of Hollywood’s Wartime Woman: Representation and Ideology and The Subject of Documentary, editor of Theorizing Documentary, and co-editor of Resolutions: Contemporary Video Practices, Collecting Visible…

Amy Berg is a critically acclaimed, Oscar and Emmy nominated documentary filmmaker. Her first film, Deliver Us From Evil, was nominated for an Academy Award and a DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary in 2007. She then went…

Geralyn White Dreyfous is an Academy Award winning producer with a wide, distinguished background in the arts. She spent an early part of her career at the Philanthropic Initiative in Boston, which guides families of wealth in strategic giving opportunities,…

Jason Spingarn-Koff is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, journalist and media executive. He is Professor of Journalism and Knight Chair of Climate Journalism at UC Berkeley, where he’s working to reinvent how stories about climate change are told. From 2015 –…

Keisha Knight (she/her) is the Director of IDA Funds and Advocacy. In this capacity, Keisha oversees a portfolio of IDA’s granting, artist support, and field-building programs, including IDA Enterprise Documentary Fund, Logan Elevate Grants, Nonfiction Access Initiative, and the Pare…

Sarah Feinbloom is an award-winning director, producer and editor whose work includes educational documentaries, dramatic narratives and fundraising videos. She is also the founder and executive director of GOOD DOCS – an educational distribution company specializing in human rights and…

Jennifer Tiexiera is an award winning documentary director, producer and editor and one of the co-founders of Lady & Bird, a female-run documentary production company focused on telling stories from underrepresented voices. Most recently, she directed the three-part series, Unveiled:…