2023 Emerging Filmmaker Jurors
Dori Berinstein
Director/Producer
Dori Berinstein is a five-time, Tony-winning Broadway producer, an Olivier winner and Emmy-winning director, producer and writer of film and television. Credits include ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway; Carol Channing: Larger Than Life; and Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did for Love. Dori co-produced Ryan Murphy’s Netflix adaptation of Broadway’s The Prom.
Todd S. Yellin
Former Head of Product, Netflix
After 17 years as Netflix’s head of product handling all aspects of how people discover streaming content, Todd recently returned to filmmaking. His previous work as a documentarian included filming refugees escaping from Tibet and unrest in Myanmar. His first feature, Brother’s Shadow, screened at the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival in 2006.
Tara Gause
Student, Clayton State University
Tara Gause is a senior majoring in film production at Clayton State University, graduating in spring 2023. Her main interests are directing, camera work, and video editing. Her love for film began in high school, and now, 10 years later, she’s worked on many projects and made her first capstone short film in 2022, "You Were Always My Favorite".
In this hypnotic Yiddish-language drama, a Jewish-Ukrainian shtetl on the precipice of disaster wrestles with festering tensions between tradition and modernity.
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