BFF 2025 JUDGES
FEATURE NARRATIVE
Gilana Lobel: Filmmaker
Jessica Carillo: Photographer / Filmmaker
Robert Horton: Member of the National Society of Film Critics (US)
FEATURE DOCUMENTARY
Jeff Reichert: Academy Award Filmmaker
Teresa Sadowska: Icarus Films
Brandon Harrison: Filmmaker /Programmer
SHORT NARRATIVE
Bruno Derlin: Festival Director / Filmmaker / Editor
William Cusick: Filmmaker/Programmer
Aliya Naumoff: Filmmaker
SHORT DOCUMENTARY
Nanor Vosgueritchian: Programmer
Vanessa Roworth: Editor
Loulwa Khoury: Filmmaker
EXPERIMENTAL
Leah R. Brown: BFF Best Exp. 2022
Fatrin Krajka: Filmmaker/Composer
B.Collins: Senior Producer Havas Creative Network
ANIMATION
Trilby Schreiber: Animation Professor at SVA
Ben Faniglietti: Animation Producer at Versus
Jeff Scher: Animation / SVA Professor
Adam Meyers: Emmy Award Winner / Independent Animator