A five-member jury — bringing together leadership, filmmaking, production, film scholarship, and criticism — evaluates the Official Selection and determines the festival awards. Jury members are announced ahead of each festival season.
The president chairs the deliberations and casts the deciding vote. A short biography will appear here once the appointment is confirmed.
A filmmaker whose own work carries the languages and communities this festival serves.
A producer who knows what it costs to make cinema in a small-audience language.
An academic voice on the history and preservation of these cinemas.
A critic who writes for a general readership and can argue for a film in public.
Jury members serve for one season and may not have a film in the Official Selection. Appointments are announced before the season opens.