PBS SoCal’s Fine Cut Film Festival: Judges, Rewards Show details

PBS Socal He discovered judges behind the 26th edition “Sitan cut Film festival, “which recognizes the work in California Student Films and short films that created more than $ 45,000, attracted 430 film submissions attending more than 53 schools across California.

According to PBS SoCal, it is the highest submission ever at the festival competition. The winners chose the industrial panel of the judges in the categories of documentary, animation and narrations, as well as the recipient of the Signature of the Event Larson Southern California Student film award, received the name within the fine Cut Founder.

This year’s judges include EMMI Director Mary Lou Belli, “Monk”), “I’m sorry” “Seventeen”, “presumed innocent”), producers / founder of Media Jaie and Adam Fenderson, “PBS” “,” PBS “”, ” “Incredible”), writer / director / producer Liz V. Garcia (“Space Cadet”, “Cold Case”), Michael Herrera (“Farewell”, “Encanto”), Starz Acquitions Artiva (“These changes”, “Starger Fruit”, “What is chasing us”), Writer / producer Eileen Shim (“Acolite”, “Dragon House”, “Light as a feather”) and the writer / director Echo Vu (“Jentri Chau against the underground”).

Castors will be discovered during the awards ceremony on Tuesday, 16. September at the Eagle Theater at Vidiots, located in Eagle Rock. Variety Executive editor, TV, Michael Schneider and Variety The higher writer of fun writers Angelikue Jackson will be hosted again.

Finalists in this year’s penalty competition will be drawn in six one-hour episodes, set to broadcast starting from Wednesday, 24. September at 22.00 on PBS Socal Plus (aka KCET). The movies will also be available for streaming at Pbssocal.org / Fanicut and on the free PBS application.

The winners will get equipment for rent, software for animation, design tools and more. Also on the annual annual workshop for mentoring mentoring memory on Saturday, 27. September in the center of Radford Studio. Participants include, directed by Tessa Blake, director Marcus Stokes and Cinematograph Felipe Vara de Rei. Writing / manufacturing mentors include writer / ep / showrunner faith Santamaria, writer / director Drew Hancock and Shovrunner / EP Dailin Rodriguez. Animation mentors include Chang Chang character designer, artistic director Miguel Gonzalez and Jessie Juvono, manager, artist management in Warner Bros. Animation & Cartoon Network Studios.

Per PBS SoCal, finalist movies focused on topics such as “isolation, culture and determination”. Among finalist films, 61% came from women’s director with 76%, having at least one female producer and 6% of transgender / non-binary director. Also, 74% of the finalists covered the main character or the main subject of insufficiently represented racial groups, and 67% of the director was of insufficiently represented racial / ethnic groups.

Here is the first look at the Fine Cut Film Festival: