FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Stareable Fest finalizes industry jurors for inaugural event
These nine media experts will help award your film submissions
March 20, 2018
New York City, NY- The jury for Stareable Fest is complete! These nine industry professionals will help decide awards for the talented filmmakers submitting for the event in July. Since the original announcement of the first six, Stareable has added Aziz Ishaam, Executive Producer of BRIC TV, Jenni Powell, producer of Emmy Award-winning The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, and Emilia Zboralska, President of The Independent Web Creators of Canada.
The festival judging panel also includes Aymar Christian, author of Open TV: Innovation Beyond Hollywood and the Rise of Web Television, Emily Best, CEO of Seed&Spark, Gabriele Capolino, Film Programmer at the IFP, Rosalind Murphy, VP of Programming for New York Women in Film and Television (NYWIFT), Mitch Semel, Founder of Semel Media, and Claire Taylor, Senior Programmer for Series Fest.
More information for each juror available on the Stareable Fest website! The regular deadline to get considered by this panel is March 30th, so submit soon!
About Stareable Fest
Stareable Fest will take place July 20th-22nd, 2018, in New York City, and is now accepting submissions. It’s half industry marketplace, creating face-to-face connections between independent filmmakers and decision makers at major platforms, and half creator convention, with workshops and panels about how to be a more effective filmmaker. This isn’t the same old festival, focused on screenings and awards (though we have those too).
You can submit for short and long form independent television content in comedy, drama, animation, unscripted/reality, and documentary categories. Awards will be given out for best in show as well as excellence in writing, acting , editing, cinematography, directing, and innovative new media (interactive/transmedia) elements.
A key Stareable Fest goal is to make television more inclusive. Underrepresented groups like women, people of color, and the LGBT+ community have thrived in web series and online. We want to empower these diverse voices by showcasing their work to industry so they can make the leap to mainstream platforms and gain broader audiences.
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Ajay Kishore, Founder and CEO
