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BEST DEBUT FEATURE 2015 JURY BEST FEATURE FILM - BRIDGING THE BORDERS AWARD Barry Sabath A Senior Lecturer at The American Film Institute Conservatory, where he teaches and oversees the feature screenplay development class, teaches the world cinema class, and coordinates the career services office. He has over two decades of feature film development experience. He ran the film division of Robin Williams’ Blue Wolf Productions, whose productions include Mrs. Doubtfire, Patch Adams and Jakob the Liar. At Twentieth Century Fox, he was senior vice president of production for Paul Schiff Productions, where he oversaw My Cousin Vinny and was co-producer on Ghost in the Machine and PCU. He spent four years at Columbia Pictures, as executive story editor and vice president of production, and supervised Flatliners and Immediate Family. Holding an MA and PhD in Cinema Studies from New York University, Sabath also taught film history and criticism at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Illinois State University. Mimi Freedman A documentary filmmaker specializing in film history, she has written, directed and produced more than 50 nonfiction films and television programs, including the Turner Classic Movies documentaries Brando and Steve McQueen: The Essence of Cool. In 2007, Brando received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Nonfiction Special and was screened at Cannes, Tribeca and many other international film festivals. Mimi is an executive producer of the soon-to-be-released documentary The Millionaire’s Unit: U.S. Naval Aviators in the First World War. She also enjoys working in reality television and is a senior story producer on ABC’s long-running favorites The Bachelor and The Bachelorette. Heidi Zwicker Contributing to various Sundance Institute programs for the past ten years— beginning with the Feature Film Program, International—she currently works as an associate programmer for the Sundance Film Festival , focusing on international feature films. She also manages the Sundance Collection at UCLA. Heidi was a programmer at Palm Springs International Shortfest from 2011-2014. Originally from the north shore of Boston, she has a degree in English from University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth and an MA in Critical Studies of Film and Television from UCLA. Christina Beck She began her career as a teenager acting in such cult films as Suburbia, Boys Next Door and Dudes, all directed by Penelope Spheeris. Her debut feature film Perfection won Best Actor and Best Narrative Feature awards at the Oxford Film Festival, screened in the San Francisco International Women’s Film Festival, and the USA Film Festival in Dallas, Texas. Her upcoming projects include a retro sex comedy Dig Me set in Los Angeles, and a dark romantic comedy Expecting Grace set in France. Logan Crow He is the Founder and Executive Director of The Frida Cinema, a non-profit art house cinema located in the heart of Downtown Santa Ana’s arts district. The premier destination for cinephiles in Orange County, The Frida complements its programming of independent, documentary, student, classic, eclectic, and avant garde films from around the world with art shows, concerts, poetry slams, and other diverse multimedia events. Learn more at thefridacinema.org. 31