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2017 SIFF SHORTSFEST JURY
LIVE ACTION JURY
Ina Pira is the newest member of Vimeo's Curation team. Prior to her job at Vimeo, Ina worked as a Senior Programmer for the Hamptons International Film Festival, the Montclair Film Festival, and the Sarasota Film Festival. In addition to her programming duties, Ina has helped manage and select scripts for the Hamptons Screenwriters Lab and other year-round programs.
Lacey Leavitt’s feature film producing credits include Megan Griffiths' Sadie (in post-production), The Off Hours (Sundance Film Festival '11), and Lucky Them (TIFF '13), Lynn Shelton's Laggies (Sundance '14) and Touchy Feely (Sundance '13), Colin Trevorrow's Safety Not Guaranteed (Sundance '12), Todd Rohal's The Catechism Cataclysm (Sundance '15), and lastly The Automatic Hate (SXSW '15), which she produced with Alix Madigan (Winter's Bone). She co-directed and produced the award-winning roller derby documentary Blood on the Flat Track (SIFF '07), and directed the short films D.C.I. (SIFF Fly Film '12) and Escape (commissioned by the Orcas Island Film Festival '15).
Lacey is the co-founder and CEO of the cinematic content studio Mechanical Dreams, which harnesses both emerging and traditional technologies to create a powerful and diverse array of stories. MD's first virtual reality film Eagle Bone (directed by Tracy Rector) premiered at SIFFX '16 and had its international premiere at TIFF '16. Little Potato (directed by Wes Hurley) just won the Best Short Documentary Award at SXSW '17, and you can see that and the work-in-progress VR companion piece Potato Dreams at SIFF '17. Lacey is an alumni of the University of Washington and the Sundance Creative Producing Lab.
Tony Fulgham is a writer and director in Seattle, WA. Tony started his career at Digital Kitchen before moving to LA to work for Imaginary Forces. In 2005 he founded Seattle production company World Famous and spent a decade there as a live action director and the Executive Creative Director. Tony left World Famous in 2015 to focus full time on writing and directing. He is an award-winning commercial director and independent filmmaker. He is currently in development on his first feature length film.
DOCUMENTARY & ANIMATED SHORTS JURY
In addition to writing grants for the nonprofit Milwaukee Film, Anna Sampers has been curating the "Shorter Is Better" section of the Milwaukee Film Festival since its first annual event in 2009. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Anna received her BFA in Film, with a double minor in Film Studies and Spanish. Anna is also an accomplished, award-winning filmmaker whose work has screened at the Wisconsin Film Festival and the Ivy Film Festival, among others.
Nancy is the Executive Director of Reel Grrls. She believes that storytelling is the key to building connections to form empathy. Films are our portals to hear the voices and stories that bring us outside of our own bubbles. She holds an MPA and a BFA from the University of Washington. She loves girl centric communities and co-founded Skate Like a Girl as a non-profit. She sits on various boards including Skate Like a Girl, and Artist Trust.
David Chen is a director and video producer, as well as the editor-at-large at slashfilm.com. He hosts and produces podcasts such as The /Filmcast, The Tobolowsky Files, and A Cast of Kings, which collectively receive over 200,000 downloads per week.
His video work has been featured/mentioned in online publications such as Rolling Stone, Buzzfeed, Slate, Vulture, Indiewire, Bustle, Cosmopolitan, @Midnight, Vimeo Staff Picks, Allocine, and Digg. In 2014, he directed The Primary Instinct, which premiered at the Seattle International Film Festival.
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