11TH FILM FEST OCT 21-28, 2010
FESTIVAL AWARD JURY 2010
Festival Award Jurors judge the best films entered into competition and choose the top film in each category along with a Grand Jury Award winner.
Chris Tashima
Chris Tashima is an actor and director from Los Angeles. He won an Academy Award for his short film, Visas and Virtue (1st SDAFF) and received an Emmy nomination for the PBS Special, Day of Independence (5th SDAFF). A member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, he serves annually on Nominating Committees for the Animated Feature, and Live Action and Animated Short Film Academy Awards. He has served as juror at SXSW, Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival and Chilean International Short Film Festival. He has also judged for NAACP Image Awards, Aurora Awards, CINE Golden Eagle competition, as well as Student Academy Awards and DGA Student Film Awards.
Dylan Marchetti
Dylan Marchetti is the founder and head of Variance Films, dedicated to putting the power back in the hands of filmmakers, and has created an innovative model where filmmakers can take ownership of their theatrical releases while retaining all of their rights. Throughout his career, Dylan has had a strong focus on Asian American and Asian film, both at Variance and in previous positions as Director of Theatrical Acquistions for ImaginAsian Entertainment and as Director of Distribution and Marketing for THINKFilm, where he has executed the successful theatrical releases of such films as Journey from the Fall, Nanking, and Passport to Love, and is currently working on the theatrical releases of White on Rice and Children of Invention.
Hebe Tabachnik
Hebe Tabachnik has been a film curator, festival panelist and juror for over ten years. She is a feature film Latin American Programmer for the Los Angeles Film Festival (LAFF) and Palms Springs International Film Festival, and a short film programmer for the Sundance Film Festival and LAFF. Hebe also serves on the selection committee and is a member of the Board of Directors for Dance Camera West, a month-long dance film festival that brings the newest and most innovative examples of dance for the camera and dance media from around the globe. Having graduated with degrees in directing and screenwriting from the Universidad del Cine in Buenos Aires, she is also the Co-Founder and Vice President of Lokro Productions, Inc., a film production company established in 1999 in Los Angeles, responsible for producing the 3-D World Film Expos in 2003 and 2006, the largest retrospectives on 3-D films ever presented in the U.S.
K. Wayne Yang
K. Wayne Yang is an assistant professor in Ethnic Studies at the University of California, San Diego. His work transgresses the line between scholarship and community, as evidenced by his involvement in urban education and community organizing. He was a public school teacher for over 15 years, beginning at Oakland High School where he was the chair of the science department. He co-founded East Oakland Community High School, and the Avenues Project, a youth development non-profit organization.His teaching and research focus on the role of popular culture and pedagogy in the emergence of social movements. He is currently writing a book, Taking Over, which examines the Oakland Small Schools movement as an encounter between grassroots organizing and the neoliberal state.