Jury

Our Juries select the winning films in the narrative feature, narrative documentary and short film categories.

Jurors for BIFF 2009 included Randi Emmerman, Executive Director of the Palm Beach International Film Festival, film critic and commentator, David Poland, of Movie City News and The Hot Button and documentary filmmakers Susanne Chisholm and Michael Parfitt.

Jurors at previous festivals have included actors Carrie Fisher, Richard Dreyfuss, Willem Dafoe, Michael Clarke Duncan, Peter Riegert, Laura Harring, Judy Greer, Karen Allen and Jane Alexander, screenwriters Guillermo Arriaga, Carlos Cuaron and Jeff Arch, and film critics Richard Schickel, David Ansen and Robert Koehler.