Final Jury
David Allen has produced and directed landmark natural history television programmes for over twenty years. With four Emmys; five Wildscreen Pandas; and three Jackson Hole awards to his name, he is recognised as one of the leading independent producers in his field. His most recent film: My Life as a Turkey (PBS/BBC 2011) earned an Emmy, a Jackson Hole Award, and the Wildscreen Golden Panda.
Starting out shooting and directing his own documentary material for BBC’s Modern Times and working with the specialist studios of Oxford Scientific Films, David crafted an innovative style that pushed at the genre of storytelling with people and wildlife. Today, his production company, Passion Planet, is a collaboration with Oscar-winning Passion Pictures, and is currently embarking upon a five part series entitled Earth in the Age of Man (PBS / National Geographic) which is a portrait of 21st century Natural History as it really is, with us in the picture.
Starting out shooting and directing his own documentary material for BBC’s Modern Times and working with the specialist studios of Oxford Scientific Films, David crafted an innovative style that pushed at the genre of storytelling with people and wildlife. Today, his production company, Passion Planet, is a collaboration with Oscar-winning Passion Pictures, and is currently embarking upon a five part series entitled Earth in the Age of Man (PBS / National Geographic) which is a portrait of 21st century Natural History as it really is, with us in the picture.
Greg Diefenbach is the managing director and co-founder of Alliant Content, LLC., a company pioneering online channel creation and digital content delivery for the non-fiction industry. His work in television has spanned the creative and the business side, as a producer for National Geographic to his work in global co-production and distribution for Disney/ABC subsidiary Devillier Donegan Enterprises and as the senior VP of Television Programming for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Greg has created successful programming across many genres--from history and science to natural history and docudrama--and has earned broad recognition for his work, including an Emmy and Peabody award. Greg owes much to the JHWFF: he met his now wife at the first Festival he attended in 1999! He now lives with his wife and two young boys in Washington, DC.
Greg has created successful programming across many genres--from history and science to natural history and docudrama--and has earned broad recognition for his work, including an Emmy and Peabody award. Greg owes much to the JHWFF: he met his now wife at the first Festival he attended in 1999! He now lives with his wife and two young boys in Washington, DC.
Richard Hutton is executive director of the Carsey-Wolf Center and adjunct professor in the Film and Media Studies Department at UC, Santa Barbara. Previously, he was vice president of media development for Vulcan, Inc. overseeing Vulcan Productions’ feature film and documentary units and directing all of its media development projects, including initiatives in the education, museum and entertainment sectors. Under his direction, Vulcan Productions programs garnered several Peabody, Emmy, Grammy and Humanitas awards. Prior to Vulcan, Richard was senior vice president of creative development at Walt Disney Imagineering and vice president and general manager of the Disney Institute. Before this, he was senior vice president, television programming and production, for WETA Television in Washington, D.C., and director of public affairs programming for WNET, in New York. Richard has authored or co-authored nine books and medical texts as well as several articles for national publications.
Flo Stone is President & Founder of the Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital, which she launched in 1993. Previously, she worked for 15 years on public programming at the American Museum of Natural History, where she initiated the Margaret Mead Film Festival and was its co-Chair from 1977-84. In 1986, Flo was the Film Chair for the Smithsonian's National Forum on Biodiversity and she established the annual Earthwatch Film Awards for documentaries at the National Geographic (1986-2009). Flo authored filmographies for the US Festival of Indonesia and the Ocean Planet exhibit at the Smithsonian. She has served on film festival juries in Washington DC, Missoula, Montana and Telluride, Colorado, as well as the Green Film Festival in Korea, FICA in Brazil, Cineambiente in Italy, CineEco in Portugal, and the SunChild Film Festival in Armenia.
Susan Todd is an Academy Award-nominated producer, writer, director and the co-founder of Archipelago Films. She has spent the last 20 years making cutting edge, character-based films and television programs for HBO, National Geographic, Nova, PBS and the Wildlife Conservation Society. With her partner, cinematographer Andrew Young, Susan has enjoyed working in both fiction and documentary genres. She is currently developing a large format theatrical presentation about the secret life of wetlands, inspired by a family of beavers and wood ducks that the Todd-Youngs have been filming in their back yard pond. She is also developing Julie of the Wolves, a fiction film set in the Arctic based on Jean Craighead George's classic young adult novel. Her films have received Emmy, Sundance Film Festival and Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival awards.
Preliminary Judges
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Peter Argentine, Argentine Productions
Nigel Ashcroft, Green Umbrella Limited Janine Baker, nWave Pictures Distribution Alison Barrat, Living Oceans Foundation Chris BiondoDiane Birdsall, The Time Lapse Company Clare Birks, Oxford Scientific Films Cara Blessley Lowe, Independent Windy Borman, DVA Productions Susan Bruce, Bruce Ventures Deborah Burke Arlene Burns Steve Burns, Independent John Cavanagh, Discovery Channel Frank Cervarich Stella Cha, The Nature Conservancy Bipinchandra Chagule Suzanne Chisholm, Mountainside Films, Ltd. Christina Choate, Independent Barry Clark, Telenova Productions Carolyn Collins Petersen, Loch Ness Productions Christi Cooper-Kuhn, Our Children's Trust/Barrelmaker Productions George Costakis, Independent Dianna Costello, Independent David Cottrell, Professor of Music, James Madison University Randall Dark, Randall Dark Productions Len Dickter, Tomato John Dutton, John Dutton Media David Elkins, Independent Larry Engel, Larry Engel Productions Inc. Stephen Fairchild, Wildlife Conservation Society Carol Fleisher, fleisherfilm Mark Fletcher, Independent Maryellen Frank Andrea Gastgeb, Terra Mater Factual Studios Sam Gaty, Field Test LLC Madelaine German, Independent Dione Gilmour, ABC Natural History Unit Bill Grant, JH Wildlife Film Festival Chairman Emeritus Grant Graves, Independent Teresa Griswold, Independent Linn Harter, Montana Media David Hamilton, Seven Trees Productions David Hamlin, National Geographic TV Caroline Hawkins, Oxford Scientific Films Chris Head, Enviromental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital Joel Heath, Arctic Eider Society Jeff Hogan, HoganFilms Joe Imholte Jayne Jun, NATURE for WNET/New York Sandesh Kadur, Felis Creation Sarah Katz, The Great Courses Patrick Keegan, Animal Planet Joe Kennedy, Table Mountain Films Britta Kiesewetter, NDR Naturfilm /Doclights Mary Jo Kinser, Boomer Associates Sina Knoll, NDR Naturfilm / Doclights GbmH James Kowats, Discovery Communications Hans Kummer, Wild Child Entertainment, Inc.Marianne Landin, Scandinature Films USA Bo Landin, Scandinature Films USA Stephen Le Quesne, Independent Brian Leith, Brian Leith ProductionsFrederic Lilien, BirdJail Productions Sonny Lowe, Independent Trinity Ludlow, Independent |
Susanne Lummer, NDR Naturfilm / Doclights GbmH
Ru Mahoney, BLUE Ocean Film Festival Andrew Manske, Compass Media Inc. Chris Mason, Wild Talk Africa Cathy McConnell, Artemis Productions Steve McQuinn, 3D Viz Becky Menlove, Natural History Museum of Utah Max Moller, Black Devil Productions Shane Moore, Moore & Moore Films Stef Muller, Obsessively Creative Rob Nelson, Untamed Science Carrie Noel, Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival Mary Nucci, Rutgers University David Parfit, Seaside Sound Michael Parfit, Mountainside Films Ltd. Billi-Jean Parker, Parker-Scott Media Mark Pedri, Burning Torch Productions Peter Pilafian, Horizon Pictures, Inc. Caroline Pryce, NHU Africa Max Quinn, Natural History New Zealand Deborah Raksany, Giant Screen Films Scott Ransom, San Juan Productions Paul Redman, Handcrafted Films Petra Regent, Granada Wild Thomas Rilk, Rilk Film Sarah Robertson, Arctic Bear Productions Erik Rochner, Rochnerfilms Saheli Sadanand Marion Said, Discovery Channel Ana Salceda, Beluga Smile Dan Salerno, Nat Geo Wild Michael Sanderson, Independent Annette Scheurich, Marco Polo Film AG Klaus Scheurich, Marco Polo Film AG Daniel Schmidt, Colorburn Productions Susan Scott, Independent Paul Sher, Nature in Picture and Print Andy Shillabeer, spider-cine.com Jason Simon, Blue Ant Media Alexander Sletten, APEX Entertainment \ Freelance Susannah Smith, Freelance Katie Snider, Freelance Sean Solowiej Akanksha Sood Singh, Kosmik Global Media Pvt. Ltd Catherine Stephens, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures Nini Strawbridge Phil Streather, Principal Large Format Gregor Stuhlpfarrer James Swan, National Geographic TV Anne Tarrant, Tangled Bank Studios Tria Thalman, Across the Pond Productions Tammy Thurmon, Giant Screen Cinema Association Jonny Vasic, Evergreen Oasis Entertainment Sally Vaughn, Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival Tom Veltre, The Really Interesting Picture Company, Ltd. Adrienne Ward Peter Ward Stefanie Watkins, Independent Cody Westheimer, New West Studios Pete White Steve White, Independent Lenny Williams, HLW Music LLC Martin Willis, Off the Fence Productions Kristen Wimberg, Wimberg Productions Jo Young, Earth-Touch (Pty) Ltd Chun-Wei Yi, Independent |
Image courtesy of Tom Mangelsen, Images of Nature
