Michael Brown
Executive Director

1. Blade Runner
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey
3. Omega Man
4. Silent Running
5. Dark Star

Vincent Keane
Creative Director, Producer

1. Delicatessen
2. 12 Monkeys
3. The Fifth Element
4. Wall-e
5. MIB

Jerald Miller
Festival Producer

1. Return of the Jedi
2. The Wrath of Khan
3. The Blob
4. Creature from the Black Lagoon
5. The Birds

Jason Lewis
Content & Web, Producer

1. Star Wars
2. The Wrath of Khan
3. Blade Runner
4. Terminator
5. Tron: Legacy

Hiroshi Kono
Outreach Director

1. Planet of the Apes
2. A Clockwork Orange
3. Back to the Future
4. The Fly
5. Cube

Sato Yamamoto
Social Media Coordinator

1. Godzilla (1954)
2. Evangelion
3. Akira
4. Ghost in the Shell
5. Spirited Away

Jon Nutting
Brooklyn Outreach

1. Dark City
2. City of Lost Children
3. Inception
4. Blade Runner
5. Brazil

Benton Collins
Award Video Production

1. The Empire Strikes Back
2. They Live
3. Robocop
4. Aliens
5. Back to the Future

Hiroshi Kono
New York Japan CineFest

1. Planet of the Apes
2. A Clockwork Orange
3. Back to the Future
4. The Fly
5. Cube

Laura Phillips
Producer / Writer Director

1. Sphere
2. AI
3. Contact (1997)
4. Splice
5. Vanilla Sky

Jon Nutting
Brooklyn Outreach

1. Dark City
2. City of Lost Children
3. Inception
4. Blade Runner
5. Brazil

Sato Yamamoto
Artist / Woodblock Teacher

Sato Yamamoto is a Japanese bilingual artist inspired by culture and diversity. Born in Meguro, Tokyo – currently living in Westchester, New York.

Travis Aitken
Director / Producer

My career began as an editor at the legendary Mad River Post in Los Angeles and New York. I moved out of the editing suite and into the director’s chair joining Liberal Media Films in 2006. I have written, directed, and produced many award-winning short films. Now as a producer at Deepwater Productions, working in development, I am focused on discovering, supporting, and bringing great stories to life.

Peter Bolte
Filmmaker

Peter Bolte is an award winning artist and filmmaker who has exhibited his work internationally. With a background in painting, he went on to work in the film industry for over two decades. He has directed the features All Roads Lead and Dandelion Man, several short films and music videos. Notable credits include being cinematographer on The Booksellers (Greenwich Entertainment) and the Emmy nominated documentary Casting By (HBO Documentaries).

CC Stinson
Industry Professional

CC Stinson grew up in Baltimore, attended high school in Germany, and is a self-proclaimed film geek. She has set out to merge her passion for film with the innovativeness of technology through Transmedia Production. Independent Mind + Rebel Commentary = @IndieRebel

Damaris Perez Pizarro
Journalist/Press/Blogger

I've been a juror for 5 years or more and I enjoyed to the fullest seen so many talented people producing and acting. I have an Associate degree in Tv Production and Multimedia and a Bachelor degree in Communications. I have done some short documentaries as well as video record weddings. I enjoy SciFi series, SciFi movies and among my favorites movies I love Star Wars, The Fifth Element, Men In Black among others.

Patrick Terry
Producer - First Time Caller

I got to know the festival when I attended last year with First Time Caller - and it was a thrill to win an award!

Larry Banks
Chair of Film TV And Media Arts Dept. Long Island University

Terry Golob
Writer / Professor at Berkeley

Tim Kahle
Actor / Filmmaker

Seb Duhem
2022 Filmmaker - Winner

Nicolas Kemp
Kino Lorber Films

Mike Indeglio
Podcaster / Star Trek Fan

Keith Varney
Podcaster / Star Trek Fan

Jamie Garcia
Film and Video Production
Las Vegas Academy

Alani Alexander
Producer

Chris Youngless

Afreen Zehra

Duru Usanmaz

Vincent Koreman

Robert Flowers

Zhengwu Gu

David Walton Smith

Elijah Bigler

Elliot Blanchard

Georg Koszulinski

Lesley Marshall

Eleanor Forman

Arkan Zakharov

Nicholas D'Agostino

Emma Pillsbury

Eric Rudnick

Glenna Burmer

Ian Truitner

Max Pearce

Maria-Sara Santoro

Scott Palazzo

Daniele Guarnera

Rod Sáez Chávez

Hassan Mokhtaari

Nobuhiro Futaki

Nickolas-Theofilos Tsironis

Jyot Bhalla

Rylee Arenson

Demeter Lorant

Steve Klausner

Michael Pope

Pedro de Lima Marques

Michael Bowen

Rebecka Ray

Raynita Vaughn

Vin Gagliardi

Kelsey Barnhart

Peter Giakoumis

Jinghan Zhang

Owen Cotter

Fatemeh Mousavi

Eli Zavala

Chris Mcauley

Bulban Salim

Ashley Blumlein

Arthur Joseph

Alex Robledo

Aaron Bratys

Meghan Beach

Michael Brown

Vincent Keane

Jason Lewis

Tianlan Deng

Joseph White

Gary Lyons

Eleanor Forman

West Bales

Marc Bruening

Charles Hedden

Lissanne Lake

Debbie Rasiel

Alek Slominski

Melissa Cirillo

Dylan Alex Simon

Michael Bales

Tianyi Sun

Crystal Yang

Sayoko Blodgett-Ford

Matt White

Justin Graham

JT Anderson

Rebecka Ray

William Mayorga

Raj Madan

Alice-Anne Krishnan

Bill Woodward

David Williams

Francesca Gasasira

Jeff Phungglan

Judy Piotrkowski

Mary Hallstrom

Marshall Mason

Marisa Nagano

Michael Chin

Michelle Gunkmeyer

Monique Miley

Obssa Bizuwork

Rachel Sult

Rose Heredia

Sage Patel

Sarah Dwight

Shirley Kirby

Shweta S

Spencer Rudolph

Steph Johnston

Susan Berkowitz

Tracey Garnish

James Sallee

John Chan

Yutong Xie

Zipei Zhang

Melissa Cliver