The Jury
Amy Adrion is a distributor with First Run Features who has overseen the releases of film for directors including Spike Lee, Barbara Kopple, Peter Jackson and Satyajit Ray.
Sherman Alexie is an award-winning novelist, screenwriter, producer and director with credits including Smoke Signals and The Business of Fancydancing.
Allison Anders is one of independent film’s most successful directors whose credits include Gas Food Lodging, Mi Vida Loca, Grace of My Heart and Things Behind the Sun.
John Badham is a producer and director with credits including The Last Debate, Nick of Time, Point of No Return, Stakeout, WarGames and Saturday Night Fever.
Alec Baldwin is an actor with such credits as Beetlejuice, Working Girl and Glengarry Glen Ross. This year, he will make his directorial debut with The Devil and Daniel Webster, starring Anthony Hopkins.
Bill Banning is an exhibitor/distributor with Roxie Releasing, with such credits as The Tunnel, Panic, Genghis Blues and Kurt and Courtney.
Michael Barker is a founder of Sony Pictures Classics, a company that has worked with such notable directors as Akira Kurosawa, Louis Malle, Errol Morris and Woody Allen.
Peter Baxter is a producer and the co-founder of the Slamdance Film Festival, which takes place each January in Park City, UT.
Steven C. Beer is an entertainment lawyer and co-founder of Rudolph & Beer, who has acted as production counsel on films including Sling Blade and Next Stop, Wonderland.
Bruce Campbell is an actor best known for his work in the legendary Evil Dead trilogy. He recently appeared in Spiderman and can be seen in the upcoming Bubba Ho-tep.
Andrew Chang is the vice president of Attitude Films, whose credits include Funny Games, A Matter of Taste and The Trio.
Wes Craven is the acclaimed director of such horror classics as Nightmare on Elm Street and People Under The Stairs. His upcoming film, Alice, will be released in 2003.
Joe Dante is a director whose frequent collaborations with Steven Spielberg and John Sayles have produced such films as Gremlins, Innerspace, Piranha and The Howling.
Steve Hamilton is an editor and frequent collaborator of Hal Hartley with credits including No Such Thing, Henry Fool and Flirt. He also runs his own digital editing facility in New York, Mad Mad Judy.
Piers Handling is the Executive Director of the Toronto International Film Festival, one of the world’s premier film venues.
Matt Henderson is a vice president at Seventh Art Releasing, which released 2000 Oscar nominee Long Night’s Journey Into Day as well as Songs for Cassavetes and Speaking In Strings.
Lloyd Kaufman is the president of Troma Entertainment, creators of such cult movie classics as The Toxic Avenger series, Terror Firmer and Sgt. Kabukiman.Y.P.D.
Jason Kliot is co-president of Open City Films and Blow Up Pictures, with producing credits including Chuck and Buck, Series 7: The Contender and Lovely & Amazing.
Barbara Kopple is the two-time Oscar winner behind such films as Harlan County, USA, American Dream, Wild Man Blues and My Generation.
Mika Kaurismäki has directed, produced, and written a vast body of work, including such standouts as LA Without a Map and Amazon, as well as this year’s Sound Of Brazil.
Michael Kutza founded the world renowned Chicago International Film Festival in 1964.
Jeffrey Levy-Hinte is the founder of Antidote Films, under whose banner he has produced Lisa Cholodenko’s High Art and upcoming Laurel Canyon.
J. Hoberman is a film critic for The Village Voice and the author of such cinema-related books as the upcoming Multiple Modernities: Cinema and Popular Media in Transcultural Asia.
Marcus Hu is the president of Strand Releasing who has overseen the release of Gregg Araki’s The Living End as well as the reissue of Russ Meyer’s Faster Pussycat, Kill! Kill!
Gale Ann Hurd is the award-winning producer of such films as The Terminator, Aliens and The Waterdance. She is currently working with Ang Lee on the upcoming The Hulk.
Serge Losique is the president of the Montreal World Film Festival, one of the world’s most distinguished film competitions.
Albert Maysles is the Oscar-nominated documentarian who, with his brother David, created such seminal non-fiction films as Grey Gardens, Salesmen and Gimme Shelter.
Jim McKay is the writer-director of Girls Town and Our Song and, as co-founder of C-Hundred Film Corporation, the producer of such films as Spring Forward and The Sleepy Time Gal.
Errol Morris is a non-fiction moviemaker with credits including The Thin Blue Line, A Brief History of Time and Mr. Death. He also hosts a weekly series, First Person, on IFC.
Gary Morris is the editor and publisher of Bright Lights Film Journal, a quarterly publication that includes film analysis, history and commentary.
Jonathan Nossiter is a writer-director with film credits including Sunday and Signs and Wonders.
Bill Pence is the director of the Telluride Film Festival, a premier event that was the first to screen such works as Louis Malle’s My Dinner with Andre and David Lynch’s Blue Velvet.
Ray Privett is the Coordinator of Video Collections at Chicago’s Facets Multimedia, one of the nation’s largest distributors of foreign, classic, cult, art, and hard-to-find videos.
Timothy Rhys is MM’s editor and publisher and is co-owner of Camden Pictures. He wrote and directed the feature film, Men in Scoring Position.
Emily Russo is the co-founder and co-president of Zeitgeist Films, a specialized distributor that has released films from Atom Egoyan, Abbas Kiarostami, Todd Haynes and Agnes Varda.
Doug Sakmann is the head of production at Troma Entertainment, which has released such fan favorites as The Toxic Avenger series and Tromeo And Juliet.
Paul Schrader is a writer-director whose frequent collaborations with Martin Scorsese have produced Taxi Drive, Raging Bull and The Last Temptation of Christ. As director, his films have included Blue Collar, American Gigolo, Affliction and the upcoming Auto Focus.
Alan Sereboff is a screenwriter currently working on adaptations of the Adrenalynn comic book series, Robert Sabbag’s Snowblind and Mario Puzo’s last novel, Omerta.
Tim Squyres is the Oscar-nominated editor of such films as Sense and Sensibility, The Ice Storm, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Gosford Park and the upcoming The Hulk.
David Sterritt is the film critic for The Christian Science Monitor, an associate professor of film at Long Island University and the author of books on such masters as Godard and Hitchcock.
Rustin Thompson is a nine-time Emmy-winning independent film and video director, writer, editor and DP and a frequent MM contributor.
Kenneth Turan is the Los Angeles Times’ film critic and the author of several books, including the upcoming Sundance to Sarajevo: Film Festivals and the World They Made.
Christine Vachon is a producer and co-founder of Killer Films with such credits as Poison, Kids, Boys Don’t Cry, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Storytelling and One Hour Photo.
John Vanco is the co-founder of Cowboy Pictures which has released Chris Smith’s Home Movies, James Toback’s Harvard Man, Catherine Breillat’s Fat Girl and Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Cure.
Phillip Williams is a Los Angeles-based actor and screenwriter, and MM’s Editor at Large.
Irwin Winkler is an Oscar-winning producer and director with credits including Rocky, Raging Bull, The Right Stuff, GoodFellas, Night and the City, Guilty By Suspicion and Life as a Hous.
Jennifer M. Wood is MM’s Managing Editor.
Terry Zwigoff is the Oscar-nominated writer-director behind Louie Bluie, Crumb, Ghost World and the upcoming Bad Santa, starring Billy Bob Thornton and Bill Murray.