L.A. Student Media Festival Announces its 2013 Jury Panel

NORTH HOLLYWOOD - The jury panel for the third annual Los Angeles Student Media Festival has been announced as the group views and winnows down the 175 submissions to a final list of contenders to be announced Feb. 13.

Returning for another year as members of the jury are documentary filmmaker Melinda Farrell; Carla Garapedian, former BBC World News anchor; Monica Hicks Communications Associate for the McGroarty Arts Center in Tujunga; Veronique Vowell, Film and television location manager; and Doug Ward, Academic Administrator and animation department lecturer at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television.

The Festival also welcomes six new members of the jury:  Rosalind Helfand, CFO and Organizational Development Adviser of NewFilmmakers Los Angeles; Susie Kim, co-founder and Creative Director of NewFilmmakers Los Angeles; Larry Laboe, co-founder and Executive Director of NewFilmmakers Los Angeles; Sona Movsesian, assistant to Conan O'Brien; Ron Osborn, screenwriter and producer whose credits include Meet Joe Black and The West Wing; and Alice Walton, online politics reporter for KPCC.

Information on how to get tickets to the March 30 festival will be available soon via the festival website, but stay tuned for the Feb. 13 announcement of the finalists, which will go live on lasmf.lacity.org. To stay up-to-date on all the news, don't forget to Like us on Facebook.

Note: This post originally appeared online in the CD2 News Vol. 4, Issue 4