YEAR ONE JURIES

CHRIS THOMAS DEVLIN is the screenwriter of Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022) and the upcoming Cobweb (2023). He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife and cat. He used to hate cilantro but now he thinks it’s fine.

TAYLOR DIGILIO graduated from the University of Arizona with a BA in Film & Television before moving to Los Angeles. He started his career working under the President of Jerry Bruckheimer Television on projects such as P-TOWN, LUCIFER, and AMERICAN GIGOLO, before taking an executive role at Leonardo DiCaprio’s production company, Appian Way. He was most recently a Co-Executive Producer on the acclaimed Netflix documentary THE VOLCANO: RESCUE FROM WHAKAARI and has sold projects to Sony, Apple, and CNN Films, among others.

ANDREA KRAUSS’s professional background in television, film, and video (with a concentration in independent film) spans more than two decades. Producing credits include: “Secrets & Toys” (Dalila Ali Rajah); “Grown This Way” and “Cock N Bull 2” (Nathan Adloff); and “Cinema Conversations with Stephen P. Jarchow”. Andrea resides in Hawai’i on the island of O’ahu where she was involved with casting for both “Hawaii Five-0” and “Magnum PI”. She is currently the Programming Director for the Honolulu Rainbow Film Festival.

ERNIE QUIROZ is a filmmaker and programmer and works for festivals such as Sundance, Telluride and SXSW. He is based in Phoenix, AZ with his wife and dog, Bella. And yes, his favorite movie is still "Star Wars: A New Hope".

SARA FETTERS is the editor for Moviefreak.com and lead film critic for Seattle Gay News; a member of the Seattle Film Critics Society; Top Critic on Rotten Tomatoes; awesome softball player, big time Seahawks follower, and notorious shoe-hoarder. Just a Seattle city-girl making her way the best she can as a freelance writer and lover of all things cinematic.

GINA MALLISHAM is a Tuscaloosa native who serves as Executive Director of Jefferson County Memorial Project, a grass-roots coalition that memorializes victims of racial terror violence and expands the county’s understanding of past and present issues of racial injustice. Gina is an at-large member of the Alabama Democratic Executive Committee's LGBTQ Caucus and one of the founding members of Mayor Randall Woodfin’s LGBTQ+ Advisory Board with whom she advocates for the betterment of Birmingham’s QTPOC (queer, transgender, and people of color) community. She also serves as secretary of The Central Alabama Pride Board of Directors and is a member of The Greater Birmingham Community Foundation's LGBTQ Fund Advisory Board. Gina has also worked in various roles for Birmingham Shout LGBTQ+ film festival over the past several years.

CORY RODRIGUEZ is a festival programmer in Seattle. He graduated from Seattle University in 2015 with a degree in Film Studies. He has worked for Three Dollar Bill Cinema, programmed for the 20th edition of SQFF, and served on the shorts jury for SQFF 2021. Additionally, he has worked at SIFF in multiple roles in the past and he has programmed there for over nine years. He has a special interest in short films and his programming at SIFF has been centered around queer cinema. He also considers himself to be a horror geek, having seen way too many scary movies and having killed so much time at horror conventions like Seattle Crypticon. He possesses a particular thirst for splatter films and creature features, but welcomes all genre fare.