Role Past Jurors

Bonni Cohen

Bonni Cohen has produced and directed an array of award-winning films. Most recently, she produced the Oscar-nominated film Lead Me Home, which premiered at the 2021 Telluride Film Festival and is a Netflix Original. She also recently co-directed Athlete A, which…

Claire Aguilar

Claire Aguilar is an award-winning documentary film producer and film consultant providing analysis and strategic planning for independent producers.  She has served as a film curator, film festival director and public television commissioning editor and broadcaster. At IDA  (International Documentary…

Dawn Porter

Award-winning filmmaker Dawn Porter has emerged in the entertainment industry as a leader in the art of storytelling; directing and producing critically acclaimed projects that have impacted generations of people from all walks of life. In 2021, Porter directed and…

Dylan Leiner

As Senior Executive Vice President of Acquisitions & Production at Sony Pictures Classics, Leiner oversees the acquisition, production, and business affairs activity for the company and has been involved with a broad range of films, including The Father, Whiplash, Call…

Ina Fichman

For more than twenty-five years, Ina Fichman, Intuitive Pictures, has been producing award-winning documentary and fiction films, and interactive projects. Many of her creative documentaries have been released in theatres in Canada and abroad and have played at festivals including…

Jenny Raskin

Jenny Raskin is the Executive Director of Impact Partners, a fund dedicated to supporting independent documentary films that entertain audiences, engage with pressing social issues, and propel the art of cinema forward. Her executive producer credentials include Going Varsity in…

Josh Siegel

Josh Siegel, Curator in MoMA’s Department of Film, has organized more than 150 film, media, and gallery exhibitions, many of which have appeared on Best of the Year lists in the New York Times, Artforum, Film Comment, Cahiers du cinéma,…

Julie Cohen

Julie Cohen is the Academy Award® nominated, Emmy winning director of RBG (2018) along with Betsy West. Other recent documentaries, also co-directed with West, include JULIA (2021), which premiered at the Telluride Film Festival and was shortlisted for an Academy…

Julie Goldman

Julie Goldman is an Oscar-nominated and Emmy Award-winning producer and executive producer of documentary feature films and series. Julie is the first documentary producer to receive the Amazon Studios Sundance Institute Producer’s Award and the Cinereach Producer’s Award. She recently…

Kim Yutani

Kim Yutani is the Director of Programming of the Sundance Film Festival; she assumed that role in 2018. She began programming short films for the Festival in 2006, and became a feature film programmer in 2009, focusing on US and…