2008 Judges

Allan Casebier
Allan Casebier, a resident of Newburyport, has served as a faculty member in two major University film programs over thirty years: Cinematic Arts in the School of Cinema/Television, University of Southern California; Cinema Studies in the University of Miami. In both progams, he pursued research and offered courses in the history, criticism, and theory of film. He also was awarded a Fulbright grant to India to investigate the effect of its largest of all film industry on thought and action in India's cultural life. He has lectured all over the United States and the world including Oxford (England), Tokyo University (Japan), University of Salzburg (Austria), and the University of Bolgona (italy) to name a few. In his Film and Phenomenology (Cambridge University Press), he explored the relationships holding between film and his PhD field, Philosophy.

David Kleiler
Founder of Local Sights and the Boston Underground Film Festival. Programming consultant to the North Hampton Film Festival and The Woods Hole Film Festival. David has been an active member of the Boston film industry for over thirty years.

Lois Smith
Lois Smith is a legend in her field, a publicist whose client roster reads like the guest list on Oscar night. Over the course of her career, Ms. Smith has had the pleasure of working with the likes of Marilyn Monroe, Martin Scorsese, Meryl Streep, Rosie O'Donnell, Michelle Pfeiffer, Robert Altman, Steven Soderbergh, and Emma Thompson. Now semi-retired, Lois lives on Plum Island.