2020 Judges
Taylor Dunne
Taylor Dunne is a filmmaker, educator and curator of moving image arts. Her filmmaking practice explores the intersection of place, history and landscape and is informed by her affinity for historic photographic processes, amateur film and the personal archive. Her films have been exhibited at the New York Film Festival, the Tribeca Film Festival, Crossroads Film and Video Festival (San Francisco) and FOL: Experimental Film Society (Istanbul). She has curated film programs for the Black Cube Artist Program, Experiments in Cinema (Albuquerque) and The Southern Colorado Film Festival. She is a festival curator for Transient Visions: Festival of the Moving Image (Johnson City, NY) and is an Assistant Professor of Film Studies at Keene State College (Keene, NH).
Daniel Junge
Daniel Junge is an Oscar-winning (2-time nominated) and Emmy-winning (5-time nominated) documentary filmmaker. His films include Oscar-winner SAVING FACE, Sundance-premiere BEING EVEL, Toronto-premiere IRON LADIES OF LIBERIA, SXSW-winner THEY KILLED SISTER DOROTHY, Tribeca-premiere A LEGO BRICKUMENTARY, and Oscar-nominee THE LAST CAMPAIGN OF GOVERNOR BOOTH GARDNER. Junge also served as showrunner for the AMC series SECRET HISTORY OF COMICS and is currently finishing a series with executive producer JJ Abrams for Netflix. Junge has taught documentary filmmaking at Loyola Marymount University and Colorado College and has guest lectured at numerous institutions, including CU Boulder.
Devon Narine-Singh
Devon Narine-Singh is a filmmaker and curator. His works have screened at Microscope Gallery, UltraCinema, The New School and The Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival. He has presented screenings and presentations at NYU Cinema Studies, UnionDocs, The Film-Makers Coop, Cinema Arts Centre and Maysles Cinema. He has a BFA in Filmmaking from SUNY Purchase. He is currently pursuing his MA in Screen Studies at Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema at Brooklyn College.
Eric Stewart
Eric Stewart is an interdisciplinary multimedia artist and educator. For over ten years he has been teaching analogue filmmaking workshops and creating 16mm experimental films. He was awarded the 2015 Mono No Aware Award for Excellence in Filmmaking at the Haverhill Experimental Film Festival and his films have shown at: The Yerba Buena Center for Fine Arts (SF), Yale University, Crossroads Film Festival (SF Cinematheque), 25fps (Zagreb) and The Florida Experimental Film Festival.
He holds a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, an MFA from the University of Colorado, Boulder and currently serves as an Assistant Professor of Digital and Interactive Media Arts at Western Connecticut University.
As an ex-patriate of the Western States Eric is currently hermit-ing in Brattleboro, Vermont. Being an advocate of grassroots community building, he spends his free time slinging tofu at the Brattleboro Food Coop and contributing to the AgX Boston Film Collective.