The Judges
AGNES CRANE
Agnes Crane is a New York-based journalist who covers financial news for Dow Jones & Co. A writer for most of her 12-year career, she currently edits coverage of the U.S. debt crisis, including a popular column for The Wall Street Journal. Agnes has published articles in the Wall Street Journal, Barron's, the Daily Deal, among others. She began her career in Mexico City, covering the country's watershed presidential elections in 2000. In a previous life, she was an active member of the arts community in San Francisco where she co-managed a gallery and supported up and coming artists. Agnes, a native of Philadelphia, has called New York her home for eight years.
TODD HEYMAN
Todd Heyman began his career at New England's largest ad agency, Hill Holliday. After a brief run as an actor he landed in the film promotion world, developing campaigns for Miramax Films.Heyman has written and directed two short films. "Wholey Moses" was a finalist at Tribeca and USA (Academy Awards qualifier) film festivals, and is playing on HBO/Cinemax. He is now embarking on a commercial directing career where he draws his storyboards, creates his own animatics and writes his own treatments.
KENT TURNER
Kent Turner, originally from Albuquerque, New Mexico, has worked for the San Francisco International Film Festival (the country’s oldest), and in Los Angeles, as a script supervisor and for the independent production company Fries Entertainment. In New York, he has appeared as an actor in Off-Broadway productions and on daytime television. (Thanks AFTRA, for the Australian residuals for The Guiding Light.) Since 2003, he has edited the film review site film-Forward.com.