Organizers & Jurors
Maiken Baird
Independent documentary filmmaker with a varied and lauded body of work, Ms. Baird has worked on projects that have screened at the Toronto International, Tribeca and Sundance Film Festivals.
Matthew Chapman
Journalist, screenwriter, author, and film director whose work has been selected to the Tribeca, Sundance and Berlin film Festivals. He is the great-great grandson of Charles Darwin.
Macky Alston
Filmmaker and Director of Media Auburn Seminary.
Andrew Solomon
Writer and activist in politics, culture, and psychology. His most recent book, Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity, won the National Book Critics Circle award
Aimee Bell
Deputy Editor, Vanity Fair Magazine
Liza Powel O’Brien
Playwright whose work has been presented at Ojai Playwrights Conference, The Lark, and Naked Angels LA.
Lisa Hedley
Emmy-nominated documentary filmmaker and co-founder Difference Diaries.
Michele Kuvin Kupfer
Filmmaker & Educational Consultant/Behavioral Therapist. Co-founder of Difference Diaries, a subsidiary of The Children of Difference Foundation.
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