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Matt Gordon holds degrees from Middlebury College and the directing
program at the American Film Institute. His thesis film, The Honeyfields,
was accepted at film festivals all over the world and won numerous prizes.
Matt has been working in film for 14 years, many of those spent making
documentaries for television on topics ranging from politics to resident
doctors to the youth in Serbia during the Bosnian War or working in
New York or Los Angeles as a feelance camera man and field producer.
Matt was born and raised in gorgeous Baltimore, Maryland.
The Honeyfields won awards for Best Direction at the Festival du Film de
Strasbourg, Actor Performance at the San Francisco Short Film Festival,
Best Short Film at the Short Film Festival of Los Angeles and the Best Screenplay award at the 2008 edition of the Philadelphia Documentary & Fiction Festival. | |
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International Jury Member
David Munoz
Founder and Director of Hibrida, a multimedia company based in Spain.
He writes, directs and produces films, both fictionary and documentary,
selected and awarded in numerous international film festivals. Winner of
Goya Award for Best Short Documentary with his film Flowers of
Rwanda. He has also participated as Juror in international film festivals.
Economist. PhD in Financial Economics. He worked as a financial
analyst in a Japanese Bank and as a Financial Adviser to Regional
Governments in Spain. Postgraduate professor of financial economics and
author of specialized financial economics in economy magazines.
Filmography (selection):
THE INFINITE JEST (2010, HD, Documentary, in postproduction),
THREE SAD TIGRES (2010, 35mm, Documentary, 13'),
FLOWERS OF RWANDA (2008, 35mm, Documentary, 19')
-Goya Award by Spanish Film Academy for Best Short Documentary.
42 film awards. Screened in 120 international film festivals-
854 (2008, HD, Documentary, 24', TV) Documentary for TV with more
than 80 media impacts.
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT (2007, DV Documentary, 29') 8 film awards.
Screened in more than 60 international film festivals.
CRISIS (2005, Digi Betacam, Feature Fiction, 80')
Selected in Festival de Cine Espaņol de Malaga.
Best Film Award in the Experimental Film Festival of Sydney. | |
International Jury Member
Thomas Zinsli
Born in Chur, Switzerland and currently living in Zurich,
Thomas attended the New York Film Academy's One Year
Filmmaking program in 2007. He was the director, writer, producer
and editor of Waiting Room (2007), Lesson in Humility (2007), and Bus 8
(2009) that won the 'Silver Remi Award' for Cinematography at the 43rd
Annual Houston Int'l Film Festival.
His film Lesson in Humility won the Actor Performance Award at the
2008 edition of the Philadelphia Documentary & Fiction Festival, as well
as awards for Best Editing in the Festival du Film de Strasbourg,
Best Direction at the New York Short Film Festival and Best Short Film
at the Festival du Cinema de Paris. | | |
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Philadelphia Documentary & Fiction Festival - The Jury
