Meet the 2018 DOC NYC Jurors
DOC NYC is pleased to introduce the jurors for this year’s competition sections: Viewfinders, Metropolis and Shorts.
Viewfinders Competition:
Rachel Chanoff, Programmer; Founding Director, THE OFFICE performing arts + film. Rachel Chanoff is the founding director of THE OFFICE performing arts + film. Among other positions she holds as a curator and producer, she is a consultant to the Feature Film Program for Sundance, the chair of the programming committee of the New York Jewish Film Festival, the programming consultant for the Margaret Mead Film Festival, and the Artistic Director of the BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival. Rachel is proud to serve on the board of the 52nd Street Project and Working Films.
Kimi Takesue, Filmmaker. Kimi Takesue is an award-winning filmmaker and recipient of Guggenheim and Rockefeller Fellowships in Film. In 2018, she was awarded the “Breakthrough Award” from Chicken and Egg Pictures. Her recent film 95 and 6 To Go was nominated for the European Doc Alliance Award and screened widely at festivals including CPH:DOX, DOC NYC, and Dok Leipzig.
Ursula Liang, Director/Producer/Journalist. Ursula Liang is a journalist turned filmmaker. She has worked for The New York Times Op-Docs, T: The New York Times Style Magazine, ESPN The Magazine and produced several UFC shows. 9-Man, her film about a streetball battle in Chinatown, screened at DOC NYC and was called “an absorbing documentary” by the New York Times. She lives in the Bronx, NY.
Metropolis Competition:
Margaret Bodde, Producer & Executive Director, The Film Foundation. Margaret Bodde is the award-winning producer of several of Martin Scorsese’s documentaries including George Harrison: Living in the Material World (2011) and No Direction Home: Bob Dylan (2005). Ms. Bodde is also the Executive Director of The Film Foundation, the non-profit organization created by Scorsese to support film preservation http://www.film-foundation.org.
Jill Burkhart, Senior Director, Documentary Programming, EPIX. Jill Burkhart is Senior Director of Documentary Programming for EPIX, responsible for overseeing the development and production of feature docs and limited series for the network. Most recently, she executive produced the Sundance award-winning film This is Home, America Divided the series, and the upcoming documentary Panama Papers.
David Lewis, Metro Editor, WNYC. David L. Lewis is WNYC’s Metro News editor, supervising a staff of seven reporters devoted to in-depth, contextual coverage of the core urban issues of our time. Beats include city, state and federal governments; poverty, homelessness, and social services; criminal justice and investigations; immigration; and transportation. Lewis has 35 years of experience in print and broadcast media. His feature-length documentary, The Pleasures of Being Out of Step, a profile of the legendary jazz writer, political columnist, and civil libertarian Nat Hentoff, opened in theaters across the country in 2014. Prior to joining WNYC, Lewis taught reporting, writing, and multimedia at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism for six years. He was a producer and associate producer for correspondent Ed Bradley on 60 Minutes for five years; a staff writer for the New York Daily News and Gannett newspapers for 15 years, and has worked for ABC News, Time Warner cable television and various national magazines.
Shorts Competition:
Marjon Javadi, Film and Partnerships Executive, Doc Society. Based in New York, Marjon works across all international film funds at Doc Society and the Good Pitch program. Her experience is in development, production and acquisitions for both fiction and non-fiction storytelling. Prior to Doc Society, she worked at Netflix Originals on series and films including the Emmy-award winning Chef’s Table and Making a Murderer and Academy Award-nominated films Virunga and Winter on Fire. Her previous experiences include working as the development executive for Scott Rudin Productions and in CAA’s Media Finance division. More recently she was an associate producer on Waiting For Hassana (Sundance 2017) and co-producer on Crossing the Divide (WGBH). She is a 2018 Impact Partners Producers Fellow.
Nicole Tsien, Co-Producer, POV. Nicole is the Co-Producer at POV. As a member of the programming and production team, she manages film submissions, oversees pre-screeners, and assists in the production of the series. Previously, she has worked as an intern and production assistant on Yance Ford’s Oscar-nominated documentary, Strong Island, and has worked as an assistant to Joshua Weinstein on his 2012 documentary, Drivers Wanted. Nicole has participated on panels and juries worldwide, including Austin Film Festival, and DocAviv. She is a member of the Asian American Documentary Network (A-Doc) and serves as a board member of Brown Girls Doc Mafia.
Emily Buder, Film Curator, The Atlantic. Emily Buder is the Film Curator at The Atlantic. Previously, she was the Managing Editor of No Film School, where she wrote extensively about independent film releases and covered film festivals around the world. Before that, she was a staff writer at Indiewire, where she conducted filmmaker interviews, wrote feature profiles, reviewed films, and managed Indiewire’s social media. She discovered and developed the 2014 Sundance hit and Independent Spirit Award nominee “Infinitely Polar Bear” as a Creative Executive at Paper Street Films.
Come along to DOC NYC and see the amazing films in each of the competition sections. Tickets and Passes available here.
