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Jury

  • A woman with long black hair and bangs, wearing an orange top, standing in front of a bookshelf filled with various books.

    Eva Aridjis

    Award-Winning Director of Chuy el hombre lobo, The Favor, La Santa Muerte, Ninos de la calle at Ariel Awards, Trieste, Valle de Guadalupe, Morelia Film Festivals, Screenwriter of Netflix’s Narcos: Mexico

  • Nikola Chapelle

    Audio Engineer of Netflix’s The Great Hack, The Edge of Democracy, Kumeyaay Land, Eugene Jarecki’s The King, Once Upon a Time in Uganda at SXSW, Sundance, Tribeca, Red Nation, Shorts México, WilliFest Film Festivals, Co-Founder of Paris-based Audio Company Kraft

  • Pete Chatmon DGA

    Director de Showtime's Yellowjackets, Premium, HBO's The Flight Attendant, Insecure,‍ Silicon Valley, BlackCard, Starz' Power Book III: Raising Kanan, Netflix's You, Dead Boy Detectives, Hulu's Reasonable Doubt, Interior Chinatown, Paramount Plus' Fatal Attraction, CBS's Ghosts, NCIS: Origins, ABC's High Potential, Grey's Anatomy, FX's It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Apple TV+ Mythic Quest, Executive Producer of Starz’ Power: Origins, NAACP Image Awards Nominated, Directors Guild of America (DGA)

  • Antonio Coello

    Award-Winning Director of Sietefilos, Hant Quij Cöipaxi Hac at Ariel Awards, Red Nation, Valle de Guadalupe Film Festivals

  • Profile of a man wearing a black baseball cap and a red T-shirt, looking to the side.

    Armando Croda

    Award-Winning Director-Editor of Ya me voy, Loudmouth, Jay Myself, Straighten Up & Fly Right at Guadalajara, Slamdance, Streamed on Netflix, Amazon, iTunes, Showtime, Founder of MU Media

  • A man with dark hair, a beard, and wearing a black sweater looks to the side against a plain white background.

    Sebastián Díaz

    Emmy-Award PBS Editor of Turning Point, Cypress Hill, Op-Docs, Award-Winning Director A Thousand Pines, Tonita’s, Tierra brillante at San Diego Latino Film Festival, Co-Founder of Union Docs NYC

  • A black and white photo of a man wearing a cap and sunglasses, with a beard and mustache, looking slightly to the side.

    Alessio Giorgetti

    Award-Winning Filmmaker at Honolulu Film Festival, Programming Director of Malastrana Film Series Giallo Fever! Anthology Film Archives NYC

  • Black and white close-up photo of a young woman with shoulder-length hair, half her face lit and the other half in shadow, wearing a dark sweater.

    Julia Gorbach

    Emmy Award-Winner Creative Producer for {The And}, The Dig, Founding Member of The Skin Deep, Founder of Wild Minds

  • A woman wearing a brown headscarf and yellow head covering sitting outdoors with other women in the background.

    Idil Ibrahim

    Award-Winning Director of Tribeca Studios’ In Her Element, Hurricane, Sega at BlackStar, Zanzibar, Sundance, Cinéma du Réel, Rotterdam, Toronto Festival, acquired by Canal+

  • Petra Korner ICG, BAFTA

    Award-Winning Director of Photography at Sundance, Sunscreen, Brooklyn Film Festivals, Women in Film Crystal Award, Kodak Vision, British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA) Voting Member, Camerimage Juror, International Cinematographers Guild (ICG), Austrian Society of Cinematographers (AAC)

  • A man with a beard and a baseball cap standing outdoors at dusk, with blurred city lights in the background.

    Alejandro Mejia AMC

    Award-Winning Director of Photography for In the Summers, 499, The Knife, Sons of Monarch at Tribeca, Sundance, Camerimage Film Festivals, Panavision Award, Critics’ Choice Nominee, Mexican Society of Cinematographers (AMC)

  • Black and white portrait of a man with long hair, wearing round glasses and a hat, looking at the camera.

    Pepe Mogt

    Grammy-Award Artist, Fussible, Founder of Nortec Collective

  • A smiling man with dark hair tied back, wearing a black jacket, taking a selfie outdoors during sunset with vibrant orange and pink clouds in the background.

    Karl Pettersen

    Award-Winning Music Composer, Sustainability Leader, Top 100 Innovators & Entrepreneurs 2024, Founder of Pettersen Consulting LLC

  • Rodrigo Reyes

    Award-Winning Director of Sansón y yo, 499 at Tribeca, Sundance, Valle de Guadalupe Film Festivals, acquired by The Criterion Collection

  • Adrian Saravia

    Co-Founder of Animal Politico, Award-Winning Creative Director of ViX at Apple TV, Founder of Timelabs

  • A shirtless man with long dark hair, a beard with gray, wearing a black cap, outdoors with blurred trees in the background.

    Antonio Scarlata DGA

    Director of Showtime’s 7 Deadly Sins, HBO’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, Funny or Die’s Donald Trump’s The Art of the Deal: The Movie, Mansome: The Series, Directors Guild of America (DGA), Founder of Skar Studios LLC

  • Portrait of a young woman with dark hair wearing earrings and a necklace, dressed in a black off-shoulder top, against a plain background.

    Adriana Trujillo

    Director of Cine Tonalá Tijuana, Cinema Parallels, Programmer of Frontera Filmmakers at San Diego Latino Film Festival, Juror for FOPROCINE, Plataforma DOCSMX, Jóvenes Creadores, Los Angeles Film Festival, DocuLab Guadalajara, Founder of BorDocs

  • A man wearing a beanie and dark coat at night, with city lights in the background.

    J. Xavier Velasco

    Award-Winning Director of Zerch, Above & Below The Waves at Ariel Awards, Biarritz, Pantalla de Cristal, Valle de Guadalupe Film Festivals, Vimeo Staff Picks, Founder of Protofilms LLC