2022 Shorts Jury

Best Narrative | Best Documentary | Best Short | Emerging Filmmaker Prize | Building Bridges Prize | Human Rights Prize

2022 Shorts Jurors

• Opal H. Bennett
  POV Film Programmer
  Opal Bennett programs and produces at the revered PBS TV series POV. Her first season curating POV shorts won the 2020 IDA Award for Best Short Form Series. She’s been shorts programmer and director of artist development at DOC NYC, and senior programmer at Athena Film Festival, and has vast experience with myriad film festivals as a jury member and in other roles.
• Judd Hirsch
  Actor
  Widely admired and awarded for film, theater and TV, Bronx native Judd Hirsch studied engineering and architecture before turning to acting. Signature stage work includes A Thousand Clowns, Barefoot in the Park, and I’m Not Rappaport. He’s best known as Alex Reiger on TV’s Taxi, while his vast film work includes notable roles in Ordinary People and Independence Day.
• Liam Sherman
  Student, Emory University
  A product of Israeli immigrants, Liam Sherman was born and raised in LA with good Jewish values and great films, and majors in film studies and business at Emory. He devours movies, music and ‘90s sitcoms. He calls it research; his family sees procrastination! He makes short films, works on screenplays, writes culture reviews for Emory’s paper, and even studies.

Films in Competition

• Becoming Nakuset
• The Inspection
• My Kippah
• Pops
• Winter of ‘79