Call it "The Empire Strikes Back." Dawn Hudson, who has been CEO of the Academy for less than six months, is now under fire from members and AMPAS staffers who told the Los Angeles Times that the organization's board of governors has discussed buying out the remainder of Hudson's three-year contract. At issue, said the Times' anonymous sources, is that Hudson has made decisions without consulting other members of the organization, acting like "a bull in a china shop" within the tradition-oriented Academy. Her offenses reportedly include involving herself in the selection of...
- 1/7/2012
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
Actor-rapper Mos Def, director Catherine Hardwicke, Film Independent executive director Dawn Hudson, film editor Pamela Martin and actress-director Sarah Polley will serve as jurors for the U.S. dramatic film competition at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, which begins today in Park City and runs through Jan. 28.
The U.S. documentary competition jury consists of filmmaker Alan Berliner, film editor Lewis Erskine, photographer and docu director Lauren Greenfield, docu filmmaker Julia Reichert and producer-director Carlos Sandoval.
The jury for the world dramatic competition will be made up of editor-turned-director Carlos Bolado, director Lynne Ramsay and director U-Wei Bin Haji Saari.
For the world documentary competition, the jurors are writer-director-producer Raoul Peck, docu filmmaker Juan Carlos Rulfo and Elizabeth Weatherford, founding director of the Film and Video Center of the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian.
The American and international shorts will be judged by director Jared Hess, film critic and festival director Daniela Michel and Mark Rosenberg, founder and artistic director of Rooftop Films.
The U.S. documentary competition jury consists of filmmaker Alan Berliner, film editor Lewis Erskine, photographer and docu director Lauren Greenfield, docu filmmaker Julia Reichert and producer-director Carlos Sandoval.
The jury for the world dramatic competition will be made up of editor-turned-director Carlos Bolado, director Lynne Ramsay and director U-Wei Bin Haji Saari.
For the world documentary competition, the jurors are writer-director-producer Raoul Peck, docu filmmaker Juan Carlos Rulfo and Elizabeth Weatherford, founding director of the Film and Video Center of the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian.
The American and international shorts will be judged by director Jared Hess, film critic and festival director Daniela Michel and Mark Rosenberg, founder and artistic director of Rooftop Films.
- 1/18/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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