| 2010 ATL Film Fest Jury |
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Narrative Feature Jury
Aaron Hillis is the New York-based editor of GreenCine Daily, and a regular contributor to The Village Voice, LA Weekly, Time Out New York, IFC and Variety. He is also the vice-president of Benten Films, the first distribution label curated and run by critics. His co-directorial feature debut, FISH KILL FLEA, premiered at SXSW in 2007.
A graduate of Florida State University's Film School, Erik co-founded the Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival in Birmingham, Alabama in 1999 and served as Director for its first eight years. In addition to the annual festival, Erik also developed year-round programming at Sidewalk, including monthly networking salons and an on-going weekend filmmaking competition, as well as the Birmingham Shout Gay + Lesbian Film Festival. In 2007 he moved to Bend, Oregon to run the BendFilm Festival, where he created a program that The Oregonian called "the best crop of fictional features yet to screen at BendFilm." Erik is now back down South as Executive Director of Indie Memphis in Memphis, Tennessee, where he brought an 80% attendance increase to the organization's annual Indie Memphis Film Festival in his first two years. Erik has also served on numerous film festival juries, including South by Southwest, Slamdance, Atlanta, Nashville and the Biografilm Festival in Bologna, Italy.
Scott Mosier has produced, story-boarded, and co-edited, most all of the View Askew Universe’s motion picture projects beginning in 1994 with writer-director Kevin Smith’s CLERKS, the first of Smith’s seven features to date. Mosier and Smith are partners in their View Askew production banner. The films Mosier has produced for Smith include CLERKS, MALLRATS, CHASING AMY, DOGMA, JAY AND SILENT BOB STRIKE BACK, JERSEY GIRL, CLERKS II, and ZACK AND MIRI MAKE A PORNOMosier also co-executive produced, with Smith, the Academy Award winning film GOOD WILL HUNTING. Mosier’s editing credits include actor James Franco’s directorial debut THE APE; the documentary SMALL TOWN GAY BAR, a Sundance and film festival hit; and Smith’s CLERKS, CHASING AMY, DOGMA, JAY AND SILENT BOB STRIKE BACK and JERSEY GIRL. Mosier is currently developing an animated TV show for Disney.
Documentary Feature Jury
Godfrey Cheshire - Godfrey
Cheshire is an award-winning film critic, journalist and filmmaker
based in New York. A native of Raleigh, N.C., he helped found North
Carolina's Spectator Magazine in 1978 and wrote criticism there until
moving to New York in 1991. His writings have appeared in the New York
Times, Newsweek, Variety, the Village Voice, Film Comment, Sight and
Sound, and other publications. A former chairman of the New York Film
Critics Circle and a member of the National Society of Film Critics, he
released his first film as writer-director, MOVING MIDWAY, a
documentary about his family's Southern plantation, in 2008. He is
currently developing two dramatic films.  Basil TsiokosBasil Tsiokos has been a Programming Associate (Documentary Features) for the Sundance Film Festival since 2005. He also serves as a consultant for filmmakers and festivals, offering project feedback and advice on festival and promotional strategy. Basil was on the staff of NewFest: The New York LGBT Film Festival beginning in 1996, and served as the organization's Executive and Artistic Director between 1998-2008. Since 2009, he has guest curated an annual film series for the Jacob Burns Film Center. Basil has also served as a Coordinator of the IFP’s No Borders Co-Production Market and has been a guest programmer for the Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival and for Germany's touring Verzaubert Film Festival. Basil has served on festival juries and panels for the Atlantic Film Festival, Berlin International Film Festival, Cleveland International Film Festival, Full Frame, IFP, LaCinemaFe, Outfest, SXSW, Starz Denver Film Festival, and the AIVF. His writing occasionally appears on indieWIRE.com, and he can be found on Twitter as @1basil1 offering advice and information to filmmakers. Basil is a graduate of Stanford University (BA) and New York University (MA).
Angela Tucker is a Brooklyn based writer, director, producer. She is the Director of Production at Big Mouth Films, a social issue documentary production company that is a project of Arts Engine, Inc. There, she produced the Emmy-nominated documentary, DEADLINE and worked in various production capacities on the documentaries, ELECTION DAY (PBS' POV) and BEYOND THE STEPS: ALVIN AILEY AMERICAN DANCE THEATER (Great Performances). She currently is directing a feature length documentary about asexuality entitled ASEXUALITY: THE MAKING OF A MOVEMENT, and producing a film about a mother and daughter's reunion after many years separated by conflict in the Congo entitled ROE AND NANGABIRE. She directed two pieces for The National Black Programming Consortium and ITVS' Initiative, The Masculinity Project, entitled INVISIBLE MEN. Angela received her MFA in Film from Columbia University and her BA in Theater and African American Studies from Wesleyan University. Her writing has appeared on MediaRights and The Independent.
Shorts Jury
A veteran of the film festival circuit, Mark was an associate producer of the Slamdance Film Festival and has also acted as a videographer/reporter for both Slamdance and the Seattle International Film Festival. In 2003, Mark became Senior Account Executive of Film Threat DVD before becoming Editor-in-Chief of FilmThreat.com from 2005-2009. In 2010, Mark became owner and publisher of Film Threat after purchasing Film Threat from founder Chris Gore during the Sundance Film Festival. Mark has appeared as a film pundit on G4 TV’s Attack of the Show, and has also been a juror and featured panel speaker at numerous film festivals.
Washington DC-based director/producer Jeff Krulik has screened at the Museum of Modern Art, Lincoln Center, the American Film Institute and on PBS. In 2002, he was honored as a guest filmmaker at the 48th Annual Robert Flaherty Film Seminar. His resume includes work for Errol Morris, Robert Stone, Discovery Networks, and National Geographic Channel. In 2003, he was commissioned to produce a one-hour documentary on carnival sideshow history for The Travel Channel. Krulik is co-producer of cult documentary HEAVY METAL PARKING LOT which was turned into a reality TV series on TRIO called 'Parking Lot.' Other documentaries include HITLERS HAT, ERNEST BORGNINE ON THE BUS and the award winning I CREATED LANCELOT LINK. In 2004, he was the Inaugural recipient of the Peter C. Rollins Film Award for Achievement in Documentary Film, given by the Popular Culture Association. In 2008, he produced a documentary for Maryland Public Television called Eatin’ Crabs, part of Chesapeake Bay Week. He is currently working on HEAVY METAL PICNIC and LED ZEPPELIN PLAYED HERE.  Mitchell Rose
Prior to becoming a short filmmaker, Mitchell Rose was a New York-based performance artist specializing in comedic work. Since attending The American Film Institute as a Directing Fellow, Mitchell's films have won 49 festival awards and are screened around the world in locations as diverse as the Getty Museum and the CBS JumboVision in Times Square. Besides teaching filmmaking at the California Institute of the Arts, he also tours The Mitch Show, a program of his films and audience-participation performance pieces. The New York Times called him: "A rare and wonderful talent." Some of his films can be seen at www.mitchellrose.com.
Pink Peach Jury
 Tim Kirkman
Writer/Director Tim Kirkman made his feature film debut with Dear Jesse, a documentary film about the political and personal parallels between himself, a gay filmmaker, and the notoriously anti-gay U.S. Senator Jesse Helms (R-N.C.). After a brief theatrical run, Dear Jesse aired on HBO/Cinemax “Reel Life” series and garnered an Emmy Award Nomination in the News/Documentary Writing category. The film also received GLAAD, Gotham and Independent Spirit Award nominations and was named the Best Documentary of the Year Runner-Up by the Boston Society of Film Critics. Tim’s second feature, The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me, a filmed live performance of the one-man play by David Drake, was released in 2000 to wide acclaim. His narrative feature debut, Loggerheads, which he wrote and directed, premiered at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival where it was an Official Selection in the Dramatic Competition. Loggerheads won the Grand Jury Prize at Outfest, audience awards at the Nashville and Florida film festivals, and was distributed in theaters by Strand Releasing and aired on the Sundance Channel. He is currently writing Kitty Hawk, a feature film about the Wright Brothers, for which he received an Alfred P. Sloan Grant, and is developing a television series, Miss American Pie, based on the acclaimed novel by Margaret Sartor. He lives in Brooklyn and Los Angeles.
A native of Tupelo, Mississippi, Tina Mabry graduated from the University of Southern California, School of Cinema-Television, with an MFA in Film Production in 2005. While participating in Film Independent’s (FIND) Project: Involve, Tina finished developing her short film, BROOKLYN'S BRIDGE TO JORDAN. The film has been accepted into over fifty film festivals worldwide and it has won multiple Jury and Audience Awards along with an award for Best Director.BROOKLYN'S BRIDGE TO JORDAN also aired on Showtime, BET J, and was voted #1 on the season finale of LOGO’s The Click List 2: Best in Short Film. Shortly after graduating from USC, Tina co-wrote a feature screenplay entitled ITTY BITTY TITTY COMMITTEE, which was directed by Jamie Babbit (BUT I'M A CHEERLEADER, Nip/Tuck, Ugly Betty). The film premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival (2007) and won Best Feature Narrative at the South by Southwest Film & Music Festival (2007). In 2008, Tina participated in the FIND Directors Lab with her feature, MISSISSIPPI DAMNED, and was later awarded the Kodak Film Grant. While playing on the festival circuit, MISSISSIPPI DAMNED has garnered an astounding ten awards out of thirteen film festivals recently including an award for Best Screenplay at the Chicago International Film Festival (2009). Tina was also named among the 25 New Faces of Independent Film in Filmmaker Magazine in July of 2009. She was recently recognized by Out Magazine as one of the most inspirational and outstanding people of 2009.
Molly Mayex is a producer of motion pictures and new media whose career spans more than 16 years. Her recent credits include Rain, starring Nicki Micheaux and CCH Pounder and THE LOSS OF A TEARDROP DIAMOND starring Bryce Dallas Howard and Chris Evans. Both films are currently in domestic release. Ms Mayeux is involved in all sides of the business through her company, Dahlia Street Films, including development, production, marketing, and distribution. Dahlia Street Films is presently in pre-production on ALIVE AND WELL starring NAPOLEON DYNAMITE's Jon Heder, which will shoot this fall in New Mexico.
Jury Wrangler
Arik is a commercial producer and photographer based in Birmingham, Alabama. He has Jury Wrangled over 20 juries at various film festivals throughout the southeast, making the jury's job of picking the best films as easy as possible. Arik enjoys running a kickball league in Birmingham and performing improv comedy with etcbham.com. 
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