Winner -
Jimmy Rosenberg: The Father, The Son and The Talent, Directed by Jeroen Berkvens

Jimmy Rosenberg: The Father, The Son and the Talent., will screen a second time in the Wilma Theater, Wednesday, February 20 at 9 pm. Tickets are $7 available at the box office starting Wednesday at 10 am or at the door before the screening.

The Feature Jury also presented an Artistic Vision Award to When Clouds Clear (Directed by Anne Slick & Danielle Bernstein). In the words of the jurors, "The filmmakers aesthetic choices - in cinematography and structure - create a visceral sense of place and an intimate portrait of a strong community unified in one common cause. With a fresh perspective on a familiar storyline, the film doesn't give its subjects a voice as much as let them speak for themselves."

When Clouds Clear, will screen a second time in the Wilma Theater, Wednesday, February 20 at 10:30 pm. Tickets are $7 available at the box office starting Wednesday at 10 am or at the door before the screening.

Deborah Barkow
Deborah Barkow began her career as an intern in the edit room of the Hal Hartley movie Simple Men. She then bounced around on small productions until finally landing a job in a commercial post house, 89 Greene Editorial. Barkow was eventually promoted to editor, drawing such clients as David Byrne. They produced a few small promotional films for musicians on Byrne's Luaka Bop label. The first feature she edited, World
Without End, screened at IDFA in 1999. She was among the first to cut the earliest form of reality-doc television, such as Paramedics and Maternity Ward. Her work on Peter Sillen's
Branson: Musicland, U.S.A. screened at Sundance in 2000.

Skylar Browning
Skylar lives in Missoula, Montana, where he serves as Arts Editor of The
Missoula Independent, western Montana’s alternative weekly publication. During his tenure, he’s been awarded five first place
honors for feature writing from the Society of Professional Journalists and
this year was granted a fellowship from the National Endowment for the
Arts for theater and dance criticism. Before joining the Indy, Skylar worked
for Discovery Channel Online, America Online and the Associated Press, as well as freelancing for various national and regional publications.

Simon Kilmurry
Simon served as chief operating officer of American Documentary / P.O.V.
for six years, before assuming the role of executive director in 2006. Since
joining AmDoc in 1999, he has played a key role in helping to set strategic
direction for the organization and implementing new initiatives, including
the Diverse Voices Project, P.O.V.'s co-production initiative in support of
emerging filmmakers; P.O.V.'s Borders, PBS‚ Webby Award-winning online
series; and True Lives, a second-run series for independent documentaries on public television. In addition, he worked to secure pioneering partnerships with both Netflix and Docurama to expand the distribution opportunities for P.O.V. filmmakers and enhance branding for P.O.V.

WInner -
Conviction: The True Story of Clarence Elkins, Directed by Mike West & Bill Ward

Conviction: The True Story of Clarence Elkins, will screen a second time in the Wilma Theater, Wednesday, February 20 at 8 pm. Tickets are $7 available at the box office starting Wednesday at 10 am or at the door before the screening.

The Shorts Jury also presented an Artistic Vision Award to Ya Shadad, Directed by Keren Shayo.

William Marcus
Marcus is Director of the Broadcast Media Center at The University of
Montana and station manager of KUFM-FM/Montana Public Radio and
KUFM-TV/Montana PBS. Marcus has served as Executive Producer for
four regional Emmy Award-winning television documentaries and is host
of the popular Montana PBS program Backroads of Montana. He does
feature reporting for NPR where his stories and music recordings have
been featured on All Things Considered, Morning Edition, Weekend Edition and Performance Today.

Dana Perry
Dana Heinz Perry most recently produced and directed The Drug Years
with husband and partner Hart Perry (VH1/Sundance Channel) and was
nominated for two IDA awards, received a Cine Golden Eagle, the Telly Award and The High Times "Stony" award. In 2004, she produced and directed And You Don’t Stop: 30 Years of Hip Hop, a five-hour documentary series for VH1 that was awarded a Cine Golden Eagle, and nominated for an IDA award. She co-produced Imagining America: Icons of 20th Century American Art, with director Hart Perry for PBS. In 2000, she produced and directed nine short music documentaries for The Experience Music Project. In 1998, she produced the acclaimed four-hour documentary special Motown 40: The Music is Forever for ABC. With Hart Perry, she produced the five-hour music documentary series VH1 Presents the 70's. Dana Perry is currently executive-producing a four-hour series on the sexual revolution.

Hart Perry
Hart has carved out three distinct reputations over the last 30 years: social and music documentarian, cameraman and artist. In 1969 he was the youngest cameraman at Woodstock, and directed his first music video in 1970. In the '80's, his music videos found a wider audience on MTV. With wife Dana, he pioneered music documentaries looking behind the music. Hart's favorite projects combined music and politics. John Hammond: From Bessie Smith to Bruce Springsteen (1989) was a Peabody Award-winning bio. Hart co-produced
The Making of Sun City, a Grammy-nominated documentary about musicians organizing a boycott in apartheid-era South Africa. He then launched Danny Schechter's South Africa Now, the Polk Award-winning public tv series that breached South Africa's international news blackout.
In the 70's Hart received a Guggenheim Fellowship for inventing a holographic film process. His
innovative holograms in the early '70's have been widely exhibited, including holograms for Salvador Dali. Currently, Hart is working on The Sexual Revolution a four hour documentary series.

Winner -
Class C, Directed by Justin Lubke & Shasta Grenier

Class C will screen a second time in the Wilma Theater, Wednesday, February 20 at 6:15 pm. Tickets are $7 available at the box office starting Wednesday at 10 am or at the door before the screening. Directors Justin Lubke and Shasta Grenier will be in-attendance.

Brian Liu
Brian has over a decade of experience as a designer and photojournalist with published works in rags from The New York Times to Rolling Stone Magazine. He has done documentary photo/video assignments for clients including the USDA, The Peace Corps, and Icelandair; more recently DV documentary filmmaking for various indys (including Frontrunner-Afghanistan, Pancake Mountain) and for major music artists on tour (including Manu Chao, Thievery Corporation, Devendra Banhart, Bob Mould, Brazilian Girls). Liu recently completed directing Disarm (www.disarmfilm.com), an award winning feature documentary and Big Sky finalist about the global landmine problem, and is editing down a decade of his tour footage and still photography for a Thievery Corporation DVD. Brian is the founder and creative director of ToolboxDC, an award winning creative agency in Washington DC (toolboxdc.com).