CINE Announces Distinguished Jurors for 20142015 CINE Golden

 November 21, 2014 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE betsy@cine.org 507­400­2463 CINE Announces Distinguished Jurors for 2014­2015 CINE Golden Eagle Awards for Professional Media Jurors will select Golden Eagle Award Finalists and Recipients Washington, DC ­ ​
CINE is pleased to announce the distinguished jurors who will be selecting the 2015 CINE Golden Eagle Awards for Professional Media. The jury is an accomplished group of industry executives, academics and filmmakers who have produced and curated exceptional content recognized throughout the industry. Many of the jurors have received Golden Eagle Awards for excellence in media production: prominent CINE “alumni” on the panel include Michael A. Simpson, Founding Partner at Informant Media and executive producer of the Academy Award­winning film ​
Crazy Heart​
; Bill Jersey, award­winning documentarian and a cinema­verite pioneer; and Bob Dotson, TODAY SHOW National Correspondent whose “American Story” reports have won him over 100 industry awards. Jurors will select Golden Eagle Award finalists and recipients in categories for professional media, including feature narrative and documentary films; fiction, nonfiction/reality and variety/talk series and mini­series; news programs; children’s programming; and advertising and marketing. For a complete list of Distinguished Jurors and their biographies, visit ​
www.cine.org/professional/jury​
. For more information about the CINE Golden Eagle Awards for Professional Media, visit www.cine.org/professional. DISTINGUISHED JURORS: 2014­2015 CINE GOLDEN EAGLE AWARDS FOR PROFESSIONAL MEDIA *CINE Award­winning Alumni Andrew Ames*​
, Co­Executive Producer, “Born to Explore with Richard Wiese” Erica Arvold, ​
Producer, Casting Director and Owner, Arvold Casting Sylvia Bugg, ​
Vice President for Diversity and Innovation, Corporation for Public Broadcasting Gabriela Cocco­Sanchez, ​
Vice President, Latin, Bunim­Murray Productions Matthew Cohen, ​
Vice President of Content Strategy, Machinma Bob Dotson*, ​
NBC News TODAY SHOW National Correspondent Tom Feliu*, ​
Producer/Director, Rocket Media Group John Forte*, ​
Creative Director, DuPont Sustainable Solutions Harriet Gordon Getzels*​
, Filmmaker, Getzels Gordon Productions Peter Getzels*, ​
Filmmaker, Getzels Gordon Productions Thom Gonyeau*, ​
Principal/Executive Producer, Mountain View Group William Grant*, ​
Chairman Emeritus, Jackson Hole Film Festival Chris Greenleaf*, ​
Executive Director of Content Development & Entertainment Partnership, Charm School Bill Jersey*, ​
Filmmaker, Quest Productions Len Kamerling*, ​
Filmmaker, Curator, University of Alaska Museum of the North and Professor, and Professor, University of Alaska, Fairbanks Averill Kronick*, ​
Filmmaker Ward LeHardy*​
, Producer, Rocket Media Group Melinda Levin*, ​
Filmmaker and Director of Master of Fine Arts Program in Documentary Film, University of North Texas Kathryn Lo, ​
Director, Program Development, Independent Film & PBS Plus Kathy L. Martin*, ​
Executive in Charge of Production, m2 Pictures David McAllister*, ​
Manager of Caterpillar Creative Services Bernard “Barney” R. McCoy, ​
Journalist/Filmmaker and Associate Professor, College of Journalism and Mass Communications, University of Nebraska — Lincoln Jamie Meltzer*, ​
Filmmaker and Assistant Professor of Documentary Film and Video, Stanford University Andrew Mer, ​
Senior Vice President, Acquisitions, SnagFilms John Metherell*, ​
Producer, China TV Alison Michel*, ​
Producer, Education, National Geographic Society Mary Nelson​
, Deputy Director, Virginia Film Office Jay R. Parikh, ​
Vice President of Content, Maryland Public Television Margaret (Peggy) Parsons, ​
Curator of Film, National Gallery of Art Joshua Pies*, ​
Executive Producer, Creative Director and Head Writer, C47 Film Associates Amanda Pope*, ​
Filmmaker and Professor of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California Leland Price, ​
Filmmaker Alan Rettig*, ​
CINE Past President Lisa Samford, ​
Executive Director, Jackson Hole Film Festival Andy Shapiro, ​
Vice President of Programming and Development, Machinma William Simon*, ​
Author and Screenwriter Michael A. Simpson*, ​
Producer and Founding Partner, Informant Media Douglas Sloan*, ​
Founder, Icontent Maggie Burnette Stogner*, ​
Founder/President, Blue Bear Films and Associate Professor of Film and Media Arts, American University Donald H. Thoms*, ​
Vice President, General Audience Programming, PBS and CINE Past President Elise Warner*, ​
Senior Producer and Director of Development, MSNBC Documentaries Joel Westbrook*, ​
Executive Producer, Interface Media Group ABOUT CINE CINE (the Council on International Non­Theatrical Events), a Washington, DC­based nonprofit organization, was created in 1957 as a private­public partnership with the USIA branch of the State Department as a way to accredit U.S. documentary and industrial films to send to large foreign festivals such as Berlin, Venice and Rotterdam. The prestigious CINE Golden Eagle Award was created as the method to choose films for submission to the overseas festivals, and the CINE Golden Eagle Competition eventually expanded to include student, independent, narrative and television productions. In the mid­1990s ​
CINE’s partnership with the State Department ceased, and the Golden Eagle Awards were presented as a symbol of peer­reviewed media excellence rather than as a conduit to foreign film festivals. ​
Beginning in 2014, CINE now presents the Golden Eagle Awards in three annual cycles: The CINE Golden Eagle Awards for Professional Media (now accepting entries, deadline January 30, 2015), the CINE Golden Eagle Awards for Independent & Emerging Media (opening January 2, 2015), and the CINE Golden Eagle Awards for Student & Youth Media (opening May 1, 2015). CINE Golden Eagle Award­winning alumni are working throughout the industry. For some, such as ​
Steven Spielberg​
(1969) and ​
Ken Burns​
(1981), it was their first major industry recognition; others, such as ​
Martin Scorsese​
(2006), ​
Barbara Kopple ​
(1992) and ​
Spike Lee ​
(1999) were honored well into their illustrious careers. In 2012, CINE launched its first Film Scoring Competition for Emerging Composers, renamed in 2014 as the Marvin Hamlisch Film Scoring Contest for Emerging Composers. ##END##