Filmmakers and scientists, judging together. Awards are presented on Friday, November 6, at the Bruno Walter Auditorium in The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center.
An animation and documentary director, producer and writer with three Emmys and work on Netflix, Amazon, PBS, Discovery, National Geographic and History. He was a showrunner on Netflix’s Unknown and executive producer of four seasons of Explorer. His film A Trip to Infinity won an Emmy for its animation and was nominated for a Grierson Award for Best Science Film.
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A festival juror since 2018 and a member of the Board of Directors of The Planetary Society. He led space programs at Australia’s AROSE Consortium and served as an AI subject-matter expert for NASA, after a decade of research for the Department of Defense and DARPA. He is a non-resident fellow at the Atlantic Council.
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Executive Producer and Managing Director at Yessian, a music, sound design and audio production company in New York, Detroit and Los Angeles. She has served as president of the national and New York boards of the Association of Music Producers and as a head judge for the Shots America Awards.
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Senior Director of Festival, Distribution and Talent Development at the USC School of Cinematic Arts, where she has guided students and alumni through festival strategy since 1998. A producer of award-winning shorts and features, she has served on the Tribeca Festival screening committee since 2015.
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A media executive in factual programming with a long career in public television. At WGBH she led the local productions unit and produced NOVA documentaries, including an award-winning film on the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, and a four-part series on the history of mental illness.
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British filmmaker, TV producer and writer with more than 40 years of programming for the BBC, Discovery Channel and National Geographic. Series Producer of Globe Trekker and director of the William S. Burroughs film Language is a Virus from Outer Space.
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Science engagement consultant, writer, producer and director working with artists, scientists and institutions worldwide. Her films, interactive exhibits and 3D installations have been shown at the Ars Electronica Center, the UCLA Art|Sci Center and SIGGRAPH Asia.
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Founder and director of Dallas VideoFest, who taught film and video at the University of Texas at Arlington for 30 years. Producer of KERA’s Frame of Mind and author of the 2025 book Smartphone Cinema.
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