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Creation directed by Jon Amiel (Alfred P. Sloan Juror) © Mars distribution ALFRED P. SLOAN JURY Jon Amiel Jon Amiel is an English film director who has worked in film and television in both the UK and the US. After studies in English literature, Amiel graduated from Cambridge University and ran the Oxford and Cambridge Shakespeare Company, which often toured the USA. He worked as a story editor at BBC before directing the critically-acclaimed TV series The Singing Detective. He has directed for TV and film, and is currently in production on his latest feature film. Paula Apsel Paula S. Apsel is a Senior Executive Producer, NOVA, and Director of the WGBH Science Unit. Today, NOVA is the most popular science series on American television and on the Web. In addition to the programs in the regular NOVA television schedule, Apsell has overseen the production of many award-winning WGBH Science Unit specials, including A Science Odyssey, Secrets of Lost Empires, Building Big, and most recently, the eight-part miniseries, Evolution. As executive in charge of NOVA's large-format film unit, Apsell has overseen the production of Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure, To the Limit, Stormchasers, Island of the Sharks, and Special Effects, the first IMAX film ever to be nominated for an Academy Award. Sean Carroll Sean Carroll is a theoretical physicist at the California Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D. in 1993 from Harvard University. Carroll is the author of "From Eternity to Here," about cosmology and the arrow of time; has written a graduate textbook, "Spacetime and Geometry: An Introduction to General Relativity"; and recorded a course on dark matter and dark energy for The Teaching Company. Helen Fisher Helen Fisher, PhD, is an Anthropologist at Rutgers University. She studies the evolution, brain systems (fMRI) and contemporary cross-cultural patterns of romantic love, marriage, adultery, divorce, gender differences in the brain, personality, temperament and mate choice. She has written five internationally best selling books and lectures worldwide; among her speeches are those at the World Economic Forum at Davos, the TED conference, the United Nations, the Smithsonian and the Aspen Institute. Clark Gregg Clark Gregg made his directorial debut at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival with Choke, based on the cult Chuck Palahniuk novel. He has appeared in the Sundance films The Adventures of Sebastian Cole, Lovely and Amazing, and 500 Days of Summer. Clark is well-known for his roles on the hit television series The New Adventures of Old Christine and as Agent Coulson in the films Iron Man, Iron Man 2 and the upcoming Thor. He is currently filming Mr. Popper’s Penguins, followed by the Avengers. Clark is also a founding member of the Atlantic Theater Company in New York City. He is a member of the 2011 Sundance Institute Alumni Advisory Board. WORLD DOCUMENTARY JURY Jose Padilha José Padilha, is a Brazilian producer, writer and director. He directed and produced the documentaries BUS 174, Garapa and Secrets of the Tribe, as well as the feature film Elite Squad, for which he won the Berlin Golden Bear. Mette Hoffmann Meyer Mette Hoffmann Meyer is head of documentaries and co-productions for Danish DR TV. Mette has commissioned and supported great award-winning films over the years from Burma VJ, The Red Chapel' The Devil came on Horseback, Taxi to the Dark Side to Please Vote for Me. Lucy Walker Lucy Walker has directed four award-winning feature documentaries: Devil’s Playground about Amish teenagers (premiered Sundance 2002); Blindsight about blind Tibetan teenagers climbing Everest (2006); Countdown to Zero about nuclear weapons, and Wasteland which won Audience Awards at Sundance and Berlin and the IDA’s Best Documentary Award. SHORT FILM JURY Barry Jenkins Barry Jenkins is an award-winning writer/director whose feature film debut Medicine for Melancholy garnered three Spirit Award Nominations, a Gotham Award nomination as well as awards from the San Francisco International, Sarasota and Woodstock Film Festivals. The picture also earned Barry a slot amongst Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 Faces of Independent Film” Kim Morgan Kim Morgan is a film and culture writer who authors her own site, Sunset Gun, a blog devoted to movies, music, photography and mostly, the power of cinema -- from screwball to noir, art house to grindhouse, venerated classics to poverty row rarities. She also authors MSN's movie blog, The Hitlist, and has written for Entertainment Weekly, GQ, LA Weekly, IFC, Salon and Huffington Post. She's appeared on AMC, STARZ and MTV and most recently, as guest programmer for Turner Classic Movies. Sara Bernstein Sara Bernstein is vice president, HBO Documentary Films, for Home Box Office, responsible for overseeing the development and production of various documentary films for the network. As a supervising producer, her credits include the Emmy®-winning documentary films Baghdad ER, White Light, Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and The Art of Failure: Chuck Connelly Not for Sale; the Oscar® nominated documentary feature films Which Way Home, Burma VJ and Irag in Fragments; the Academy Award®-winning Music by Prudence and The Blood of Yingzhou District; the Emmy® nominated Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq; the Peabody and Sundance Film Festival Award winner Hear and Now; and the Peabody Award-winning and Emmy® nominated To Die in Jerusalem.