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SIP JUDGES PAST AND PRESENT
SIP Judges Past and Present

 

Roy J. Bank: President of Television, Merv Griffin Entertainment; Creator and Executive Producer, Are You Smarter than a Fifth Grader?; Head of Develpment, Production and Corporate Operations, Mark Burnett Productions (The Apprentice, Martha)

Elizabeth Banks: Actress (Spider-Man 3, Invincible, Scrubs, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Slither, Seabiscuit, Catch Me if You Can)

Holly Brown: Film Department Coordinator, Overbrook Entertainment

Jillian Bullock
: Author, Killing Of Innocence (to be published in 2010, book/movie deal in progress), Writer/ Director/ Producer, The Champion Inside; Creator/Producer, Blood, Bruises & Broken Bones, (a reality TV show); Author, Wellness Incentive Now (WIN); currently working toward a Master's degree in Writing Studies.

Rebecca Creskoff, Actress, Hung, Law and Order, and Mad Men

Lisa Cortes, Cortes Films. Co-Producer (The Woodsman), Producer (Shadowboxer) Executive Producer (Precious, Tennessee)

Lee Daniels
: President/CEO, Lee Daniels Entertainment. Producer/Director (Shadowboxer
, Precious) Producer (The Woodsman, Monster's Ball, Tennessee)

Derek Dressler: Staff writer on Disney's new show Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil, Punch up writer on Disney's The Replacements, SIP Parisi Award winner.

Jeffrey D. Erb, CEO, Feverpitch Pictures; Co-President, Framelight Productions. Producer, Just Add Water (Danny DeVito, Jonah Hill, Justin Long), The Speed of Life (Winner 2007 Venice Film Festival), Let the Game Begin (Thomas Ian Nicholas, Adam Rodriguez, Lochlyn Munro, Lisa Ray), Tooth & Nail (Lionsgate – Michael Madsen, Vinnie Jones, Rider Strong), Southern Gothic, The Storyteller. Producing Deadworld with Bill Mechanic (Corpse Bride, Dark Water) and David Hayter (X-Men, X2, The Watchmen), and The Secret History of Tom Trueheart with Mark Rosenthal (The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Flicka, Mona Lisa Smile).

Melissa Fitzgerald: Actress (The West Wing, Simple Things), Producer (Voices of Uganda, Hope Not Lost, Listen)

Katy Fox
: Producer (Voices of Uganda, A Little Inside)

Joe Gangemi
: Screenwriter, Wind Chill (Sony, 2007).  Inamorata, adapted from his own novel (Viking, 2004), in development by Johnny Depp's production company.  He has also worked in TV, writing a pilot for ABC for an hour-long drama, and an episode of NBC's anthology series Fear Itself.

Tanya Hamilton: Writer/Producer/Director (Night Catches Us) won screenplay competition in the Urbanworld Film Festival.

Max Handelman:  (Why Fantasy Football Matters , And Our Lives Do Not)

Michael Lee: Script judge for the PACE Awards, the Mammoth Mountain Film Festival, Gimme Credit Screenplay Competition. He is a novelist and long time script reader for AEI, Fernlief Productions, and Samruai MK.

Lisa Lindstrom
: Producer (Things You Can Tell Just By Looking At Her, Uprising, Mama Flora's Family, Fried Green Tomatoes, Up Close and Personal, Red Corner, The War.) Lisa is currently working on theatre projects in New York.

Brendan McDonald
, Producer: The Friday Principal (pre-production), The Runway (pre-production), Tenure, The Yard; Co-Producer: Undiscovered

Stephen J. Rivele: Academy Award Nominated Screenwriter, Copying Beethoven, Ali, Nixon, Run and Shoot, Embedded, Untitled Miles Davis Biopic, directed by Don Cheadle and Mrs. Kennedy for River Road. Also wrote Like Dandelion Dust with Mira Sorvino and Barry Peper. (Will be released by Fox in March and has won top prizes at 27 festivals) & Mulkey for ESPN films.

Mark Rosenthal: is working on his 16th feature film, The Sorcerer's Apprentice for DisneyPictures. Also, he is adapting the British children's series, Tom Trueheart. Other credits include:  Mona Lisa Smile, Flicka, Jewel of the Nile, Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes, For Love or Money, Superman IV and Star Trek VI.

Richard Ross: Sr. VP - Production, NBC Universal Television (House, M.D.; Life; My Own Worst Enemy; Hercules; Zena)

Allen Sabinson: Dean, The Antoinette Westphal College of Media, Arts and Design at Philadelphia's Drexel University. Former head of programming for A&E, TNT and Showtime. President of Production for Miramax Films.

Jonathan Shestack: Producer (Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, Dan in Real Life)

Nicholas Simon: Producer (The Best and the Brightest, Ultrasuede: In Search of Halston, City of Ghosts)

 JC Spink: Producer, Benderspink (A History of Violence, Monster-In-Law, The Ring, The Hangover)

Andrew Susskind: Program Director of Drexel University's new Television Major; Independent television Producer/Director. (Married With Children, Parenthood, King of Queens, Two Guys and a Girl.) Also wrote the pilot script of Father & Sons. 

Mark Webber: The Hottest State, directed by Ethan Hawke; Broken Flowers, directed by Jim Jarmusch; Dear Wendy, directed by Thomas Vinterberg; Hollywood Ending, directed by Woody Allen

Dawn Wolfrom
Currently developing the Simon & Schuster published books, Accidental It Girl and Happiness Sold Separately.  Accidental It Girl has been adapted into a feature film with Jim Fall (The Lizzie McGuire Movie, Trick) attached to direct.  Happiness Sold Separately, has been adapted into a television series with Steve Carr (Paul Blart:  Mall Cop) attached to direct. The mixed martial arts film, The Promoter, is set to start shooting in February.

Brandon Young: Actor, (The Wire)

 

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