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2019 Judges

See the 2019 Finalists
This year's submissions included over 1,000 category entries - a record number - competing for more than 30 awards. We are deeply grateful to our more than 250 international preliminary judges who together reviewed over 5,000 hours of media. The Final Jury will be viewing films up to the Summit, with winners announced at the Grand Teton Awards Gala, Thursday, September 26 at the Center for the Arts in downtown Jackson Hole. 

Final Jury

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Aneeta Akhurst
Aneeta Akhurst is the Director of Programming at Seeker, an award-winning science digital media brand, delivering over 2 billion annual video views and ranking #1 in scale and engagement on social. Seeker empowers the curious to understand how science shapes their world, and celebrates relentless curiosity with an insatiable drive to question, inspire, and create. In her role, Aneeta oversees all original programming and production, spanning best-in-class documentaries, science news and hosted explainer series that air across YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Amazon and linear. In addition to her work with Seeker, Aneeta has over ten years of experience working on short-form digital, and long-form broadcast productions for Discovery, The BBC, National Geographic and PBS.

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Lynn Hirshfield
Lynn Hirshfield is Participant Media’s Senior Vice President of Strategic Alliances. She joined Participant Media in September 2005 and is responsible for leading the development of ancillary content and strategic partnerships for the company’s social impact campaigns.
Lynn also launched Participant’s publishing division to complement the company’s films and social action campaigns. She has since published 8 books with PublicAffairs/Hachette, two of which hit number one on "The New York Times" bestseller list and is the author of "Girls Gone Green" and two more books for younger readers, the "Sassafras" series.  

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David Martin
David Martin is a nature lover and conservationist who serves as the Director of Partnerships for Mongabay, a popular online environmental science and conservation news platform with 30 million readers worldwide.  At Mongabay, he helped his team strategize and ultimately launch a video program focused on short form content, with the goal of inspiring new audiences to love nature and to get involved in conservation.  Beyond his work at Mongabay, David serves as the Vice President of the Francis and Christine Martin family foundation, where he focuses on philanthropically supporting innovative and effective conservation projects around the planet. David deeply believes that media plays a powerful role in shaping the world as we know it, and wishes to support solutions-oriented content that can move the needle in creating a livable and equitable planet for all.

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Kathleen McInnis
As programmer/curator, creative producer and strategic publicist, Kathleen McInnis provides strategic collaboration with emerging World Cinema filmmakers to merge their creative and business development. Kathleen helps to expand filmmaker networks, broaden and cultivate audience and raise profile for both the films and filmmakers, starting in development, continuing through production and on to the world premieres at festivals such as Toronto, Sundance, Berlin, Rotterdam, and Karlovy Vary.
Kathleen was Festival Director for the Palm Springs ShortsFest as well as Director of Programming at Aspen Shorts; she launched the International ShortCuts section at TIFF, programmed for Hot Docs and Tribeca, and currently curates the New Work in Progress Forum at the Seattle International Film Festival. She is co-producing BROADCAST, the debut documentary feature from award-winning filmmakers Axel Danielson and Maximilien van Aertryckm (Ten Meter Tower, 2017) along with Plattform Produktion (Sweden). Kathleen has served as a mentor for IFFR-Rotterdam’s Cinemart, the Directors Guild of Cyprus, Berlinale Talent Campus, BAL LAB (Buenos Aires), and Creative Europe, and has served on festival juries at Vilinus, Galway, Grimstad (Norwegian Short Film Festival), Tel Aviv (Tel Aviv International Student Film Festival) and Winterthur International Short Film Festival, among others. She is a qualified international advisor for the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development small grant program in film.  

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Pragna Parsotam-Kok
Pragna Parsotam-Kok is a film and television producer. She has a passion for the documentary genre with a focus on conservation, natural history, social justice and call to action filmmaking. With a Bachelors Degree in Social Science (majoring in Culture, Communication & Media Studies as well as Drama & Performance Studies), her business skills include strategic planning and management.  Pragna focuses her time on the research and development phase of filmmaking as well as budgeting, financing and producing. in addition to conducting ongoing research on the South African and international television and film landscape.  Pragna is passionate about women empowerment and particularly women in film. She has served on the Council of the Writers’ Guild of South Africa. Pragna produced a film on the History of Film in KwaZulu-Natal which was used to launch the KwaZulu-Natal Film commission produced and has won an award for Best Documentary Short for the film “Behind the Monologue”. Her forte into wildlife began when producing the edu-tainment conservation 13-part TV series titled Code Green which was broadcast on SABC 1, South Africa’s national broadcaster targeted specifically for a South African local audiences.  Determined to diversify and transform the wildlife filmmaking landscape in South Africa, Pragna together with her partner founded Nature Environment & Wildlife Filmmakers (NEWF).  NEWF is a platform dedicated to inspiring and cultivating African filmmakers and scientists and is designed to create a path to conservation through film.  Through year round impact and outreach NEWF supports and develops the next generation of conservation filmmakers.  NEWF’s signature event is the annual NEWF Congress which has become the premiere destination in Africa for convergence of nature, environment and wildlife filmmakers. 


Audioscape

Sponsored by the Television Academy Sound Peer Group
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Bob Bronow, C.A.S.
Bob is a three-time Primetime Emmy Award winning sound mixer with an additional 11 nominations under his belt. His recent projects include Genius: Einstein and Picasso and fourteen seasons of Deadliest Catch. He currently serves on the Board of Governors at the Television Academy and on the Cinema Audio Society's Board of Directors.

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Frank Morrone, C.A.S.
Frank is a two-time Primetime Emmy Award mixer with an additional five Emmy nominations. His television projects include Criminal Minds, Lost and The Kennedys. He has mixed films with Ron Howard, Tim Burton, John Singleton and Lasse Hallstrom on projects including Ransom, Sleepy Hollow, Shaft, The Cider House Rules and the Oscar-winning documentary When We Were Kings. He currently serves on the Board of Governors at Television Academy and on the Cinema Audio Society's Board of Directors.

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Karol Urban, C.A.S.
Karol is a sound mixer and editor with over 20 years of experience in television and film. She is a co-owner of Urban Audio Post. She started her career focusing principally on documentaries. She now enjoys working on mixing scripted productions. She has been a mixer for the past eight years on Grey’s Anatomy, amongst many other shows. She currently serves as the President of the Cinema Audio Society.


Special thanks to our preliminary judges:

Adrian Bailey
Akanksa Sood
Alessandro Ponzo
Alex Goetz
Alex Rapaport
Alexa Elliot
Alexandra Lexton
Alexandre Stoloff
Ali Grossman
Allison Argo
Ana Blanco
Ana Santos
Andie Clare
Andrew Wilson
Anna Etaka
Anne Tarrant
Annette Scheurich
Arlene Burns
Ashira Greene
Barry Clark
Birgit Skulski
Brad Forder
Brandon Navratil
Brendan Fisher
Brett Kuxhausen
Caitlin Bailey
Candice Odgers
Cari Anne Ritzenthaler
Carla Rebai
Carol Fleisher
Carrie Richer
Cepa Giblin
Cesar Leite
Chris O'Leary
Christi Cooper
Christina Kotlar
Christina Sauer
Chun-Wei Yi
Cindy Fletcher
Claire Hoffman
Corey Robinson
Crystal DiMiceli
Danielle Steinberg
Danni Wang
Danny Copeland
Darlene Anderson
Davd Leon
David Coffey
David Grober
David Murdock
David Wulzen
Delta Willis
Denis Jensen
Devon Massyn
Diane Woods
Dolores Meng Guo
​Don Hahn
Dustin Kukuk
Dustin Renwick
Elah Feder
Eleanor Grant
Emma Baus
Eric Bendick
Erin Ranney
Ethan Summers
Floran Sax
Frieda Farfour Brown
Gaelin Rosenwaks
Galen Knowles
Galen Knowles
Geralyn Abinader
Gregory Ryabishev
Hans Kummer
Harry Rabin
Hilary Sparrow
Iris Ho
Jack Hessler
Jacob Crawford
Jaime Cavalier
James Glancy
James Manfull
James Swan
Jan McAlpine
Janelle Balnick
Janet Frawley
Janine Baker
Jeff Hogan
Jeff Reed
Jen Guyton
Jennifer Tsang
Jeremy Hogarth
Jessica Kantor
Joao Pasquale
Jocelyn Bentley
Joe Cordelle
Joe Kennedy
Joe Levine
John Ellerbrock
Jolene van Antwerp
Jonas Stenstrom
Jorge Franzini
Julia Hill
Julie Kling
Justin Lotak
Kali Collado
Karen Gibbs
Karen Perry
Kate Raisz
Katharina Pechel
Kathryn Furby
Katie Bauer
Katie Carpenter
Katie Jepson
Keisha Sedlacek
Kelly Smith
Kelly Sweet
Kimberly Guidone
Kirk Cooper
Kirstie McLure
Kirstin Anderson
Klaus Scheurich
Krist Jake
Kyle McBurnie
Lacy Wittman
Lars Ostenfeld
Lauren Amable
Lauren Walsh
Leigh Anne Tiffany
Lina Collado García
Linda Harrison
Lindsey Parietti
Liz Smith
Luc and Nick
Lucy Meadows
Luke Cresswell
Lynn Booth
Maggie Lane
Maggie Stogner
Majid Mohammaddoust
Mallory Clark
Marina Cappabianca
Marjee Chmiel
Mark Fletcher
Mark Romanov
Mark Shelley
Marni Walsh
Martha Parker
Marvin Stodolsky
Mary jo Kinser
Maryanne Culpepper
Matt Jones
Mauricio Handler
Maya Drake
Meg Landis
Melanie Haft
Michael Daunt
Michael Mavretic
Michael Parfit
Michael Sanderson
Michael Werner
Michelle Lotker
Mike Birkhead
Mike Kasic
Monty Dobson
Morgan Jacobson
Nicola Brown
Nikki Tilley
Noah Waldron
Oliver Goetzl
Olivia Schmidt
Owen Bissell

Patrick Morris
Paul Sher
Paula Korn
Pelumi Oladokun
Per Argentine
Peter Coan
Phil Duncan
Phil Streather
Rachelle Keeling
Raisa Chizhova
Rebecca Martin
Rick Smith
Rob Nelson
Roshan Patel
Roy Campbell
Sabrina
Sally Snow
Sam Barton-Humphreys
Sara Spurk
Scott Meddaugh
Sean Solowiej
Shane Moore
Shannon Malone-deBenedictis
Shaz Syed
Shloka Nath
Stacey Douglass
Stephani Gordon
Steve Burns
Steve Uzzo
Steven Reich
Steven Zorn
Subbiah Nallamuthu
Sue Houghton
Susan Kelly
Susan Scott
Susannah Smith
Susanne Lummer
Suzanne Chisholm
Suzanne Harle
Taima Hervas
Tara Meyer
Taylor Johnson
Terry Clark
Timothy Treuer
Tom Veltre
Tria Thalman
Tristan Chytroshek
Valerie Abita
Vanina Harel
Verena Schönauer
Virginia Lynch Dean
Virginia Moore
Whitney Beer-Kerr
Yvette Oosthuizen
Zuzana Gedeon
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