2023 Narrative Feature Jurors
Yacov Freedman
Senior Podcast Producer, Turner Classic Movies
Yacov Freedman, senior podcast producer of TCM’s award-winning documentary The Plot Thickens, was previously a producer for HLN, Entertainment Tonight, and other TV shows. With degrees in film studies from Northwestern and Emory, he’s written about motion capture, blaxploitation, and auteur studies. His first love has always been the movies.
Bruce Goldstein
Repertory Artistic Director, Film Forum
Bruce Goldstein, award-winning founder and artistic director of New York’s Film Forum’s repertory division, is also founder and co-president of Rialto Pictures, the leading distributor of classic reissues. A producer and filmmaker, his 2020 short Uncovering the Naked City was named “Best Jewish Film of the Year” by Tablet magazine’s critic J. Hoberman.
Harper Lazarov
Student, University of Georgia
With degrees in film studies and advertising, Harper graduated summa cum laude from the University of Georgia in fall 2022. She’s currently completing a certificate with the Georgia Film Academy, and has worked on set in various areas, including camera, sound and grip. She is fascinated with cinematography, visual storytelling, and animation.
An intimate, wholly original window on Adolf Eichmann’s last days, writer-director Jake Paltrow’s period drama depicts the seismic impact of the Nazi war criminal’s 1962 execution on Israeli society.
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