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2011 JUDGES
**2012 Judges Pending**
Scott Rosenfelt
| Scott Rosenfelt is one of Hollywood’s most successful independent producers. He has worked on many successful films, including: Smoke Signals, Home Alone and Mystic Pizza.
Home Alone is one of the highest grossing films of all time, and has generated over $1 billion worldwide. Smoke Signals won the Filmmakers Trophy at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival. And Mystic Pizza launched the career of Julia Roberts and went on to critical and commercial success. Rosenfelt is a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. |
Renny Harlin
| Renny Harlin’s is the director many acclaimed, commercially successful films, including: Die Hard 2 and The Long Kiss Goodnight.
Harlin’s most recent release, 12 Rounds, an action thriller, was released by Twentieth Century Fox. This film debuted at #1 in DVD sales, Blu-ray sales and rentals. Harlin’s film, Cleaner (Samuel L. Jackson, Ed Harris, Eva Mendes) debuted as a Gala screening at The 32nd Toronto International Film Festival. |
Doug Mankoff
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Steve Mazur
| As a screenwriter, Steve has written for Universal, Dreamworks, Warner Bros., MGM, Imagine, Paramount, CBS, A&E, FX, SpikeTV, Sony, and Disney.
He co-wrote the screenplays for Heatbreakers, Liar, Liar and The Little Rascals. He’s taught screenwriting at AFI, USC, and UCLA Extension. |
Danny Draven
| Danny Draven is an award-winning director, producer and writer of horror films. His production company, Darkworld Pictures, recently finished a 35mm feature called GHOST MONTH, a supernatural-thriller.
Draven produced, wrote and directed the film, which won the Best Director and Best Cinematography awards at the Chicago Horror Film festival. Draven is also the owner of Darkworld Post, a post-production company. He recently finished post work on the Sci-Fi Channel original movie, Ice Spiders. |
