The Tribeca Festival taking place June 4 –15 in New York City unveiled its star-studded 2025 jury responsible for selecting the winners in the film, games, and audio storytelling sections.
This year’s jury include Jennifer Beals, Matthew Broderick, Ilana Glazer, Art Linson, Kyle MacLachlan, Mira Sorvino, alongside other visionaries tasked with discovering tomorrow’s breakthrough talents. In addition, the Nora Ephron Award will honor an exceptional female filmmaker who represents the spirit and vision of the legendary filmmaker and writer.
The following is a list of the 2025 Festival Jurors and their respective categories.
Feature Film Competition Categories
Jurors for the 2025 U.S. Narrative Feature Competition are:
Nia DaCosta
Currently in post-production on 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, filmmaker Nia DaCosta recently wrote, directed, and produced Hedda starring Tessa Thompson. In 2023, DaCosta made history as the first Black woman and youngest director to helm a Marvel Studios film with The Marvels.
Art Linson
Award-winning producer Art Linson has created landmark films across five decades, including Fight Club, Heat, The Untouchables, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Into the Wild, and two-time Oscar® winner Melvin and Howard.
Joshua Marston
Joshua Marston is a Brooklyn-based independent filmmaker and television director. His first film, Maria Full of Grace, won the Audience Award at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival and went on to receive an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. His second film, The Forgiveness of Blood (available on the Criterion Collection), premiered at the 2011 Berlin International Film Festival, where it was awarded the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay. His most recent film, Come Sunday (starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Martin Sheen, Jason Segel and Danny Glover) became available on Netflix after having its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival.
Kent Sanderson
Kent Sanderson is the head of indie film studio Bleecker Street founded by Andrew Karpen, which he joined at its 2014 inception.
Colson Whitehead
Colson Whitehead is the author of: The Intuitionist, John Henry Days, The Colossus of New York, Apex Hides the Hurt, Sag Harbor, Zone One and The Noble Hustle.
Jurors for the 2025 U.S. International Narrative Feature Competition are:
Dagmara Dominczyk
Polish-born actress Dagmara Dominczyk, a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University and LaGuardia High School of Performing Arts, has established herself across film, television, and theater. Early film appearances in The Count of Monte Cristo and Running with Scissors paved the way for recent acclaimed roles in the Oscar-nominated The Lost Daughter (directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal) and as Ann Beaulieu in Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla.
Valeria Golino
Italian actress, director, producer, and screenwriter Valeria Golino was discovered by Lina Wertmüller for Piccoli Fuochi (1985). She has won two Volpi Cups at Venice Film Festival for Storia d’amore and Per amor vostro. Her international work includes Rain Man, Hot Shots!, and Apple TV+’s The Morning Show.
Toby Jones
Award winning actor known for roles on stage and screen. Recently starred in Mr Burton and led the critically acclaimed, BAFTA award winning Mr Bates vs. The Post Office, earning him a nomination for Best Actor.
David Laub
David Laub leads Metrograph Pictures, an independent film distributor born from the iconic downtown New York cinema. S
Kyle MacLachlan
With a career spanning over four decades, Kyle MacLachlan is a star of the silver screen, television screen, and now the phone screen. His diverse filmography includes The Doors, Showgirls, Inside Out franchise, and Blink Twice
Jurors for the 2025 Documentary Feature Competition are:
Sara Bernstein
Sara Bernstein is an award-winning producer and President of Imagine Documentaries. Recent credits include the five-time Emmy Award-winning Best Documentary Jim Henson Idea Man (Disney+), Frida (Prime Video), Music by John Williams (Disney+), The Super Models (Apple TV+), The Dynasty: New England Patriots (Apple TV+), The Volcano: Rescue from Whakaari (Netflix), Fight for Glory: 2024 World Series (Apple TV+), David Blaine: Do Not Attempt (Nat Geo), Pets (Disney+), Earnhardt (Prime Video), and the upcoming Barbara Walters Tell Me Everything (Hulu). P
Ben Proudfoot
A two-time Academy Award®-winning director and entrepreneur, Ben Proudfoot is the creative force behind Breakwater Studios.
Mira Sorvino
Mira Sorvino’s career includes an Academy Award, Golden Globe, Critics’ Choice Award, and New York Film Critics Circle honor for Mighty Aphrodite. Her diverse filmography features collaborations with renowned directors in Summer of Sam, Mimic, Quiz Show, cult favorite Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion, Beautiful Girls, and Reservation Road.
Jurors for the 2025 Best New Narrative Director Competition are:
Matthew Broderick
Two-time Tony award-winning actor Matthew Broderick was most recently seen starring in Netflix’s Opioid Drama Painkiller, opposite Uzo Aduba, and Sony’s Coming-of-Age Comedy No Hard Feelings opposite Jennifer Lawrence and Laura Benanti. Additionally, he starred in the hit World Premiere of Joe DiPietro’s new play, Babbitt at La Jolla Playhouse, as well as the Broadway revival of Neil Simon’s Plaza Suite alongside his wife, Sarah Jessica Parker, which they most recently performed in the West End. Additional credits include: Manchester By The Sea, directed by Kenneth Lonergan, Margaret, Election, The Producers and fan favorite Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, among many others.
Sejin Croninger
Sejin Croninger serves as EVP of Worldwide Acquisitions at Paramount Pictures and GM of Republic Pictures, where she establishes strategy and distribution for all acquisitions.
Eliza Hittman
Eliza Hittman is an award-winning filmmaker, born/based in Brooklyn, NY. Her latest film, Never Rarely Sometimes Always, was released by Focus Features in 2020 after premiering at the Berlin Film Festival, winning the Silver Bear Grand Jury Award. Her debut feature It Felt Like Love premiered at Sundance in 2013 in NEXT and was a New York Times’ Critics Pick.
Jurors for the 2025 Best New Documentary Director Competition are:
Kristine Stolakis
Emmy nominated director Kristine Stolakis creates films about mental health and coming-of-age. Her feature debut PRAY AWAY (Netflix 2021), chronicling the “pray the gay away movement,” received Emmy, Critics Choice, and GLAAD Media Award nominations. Currently, she’s completing her sophomore feature alive!, an animated documentary following young women rebuilding after nearly fatal eating disorders.
Sean Stuart
Sean Stuart is founder and president of Sutter Road Picture Company, producing the Emmy and PGA Award-winning What’s My Name: Muhammad Ali (2020) and Grammy Award-winning Jazz Fest: A New Orleans Story (2023). Recent projects include Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band (Toronto, 2024), Diane von Furstenberg: Woman in Charge (Tribeca 2024), and The Blue Angels (Amazon/IMAX). In 2024, he produced HBO Max documentaries Charlie Hustle & The Matter of Pete Rose and Cannes/Tribeca selection Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes.
Jamila Wignot
Jamila Wignot is an award-winning Brooklyn-based filmmaker who explores the intersections of history, culture, and identity through innovative storytelling. Her body of work includes the Peabody Award-winning series Stax: Soulsville USA (SXSW ‘24), Ailey (Sundance ’21); the Peabody, Emmy, and duPont-Columbia award-winning The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross; Town Hall a feature-length co-production with ITVS about the Tea Party movement; and for American Experience the Peabody Award-winning “Triangle Fire” and Emmy-nominated “Walt Whitman”.
Jurors for the 2025 Nora Ephron Award are:
Caroline Aaron
Caroline Aaron currently stars Off-Broadway in Conversations with Mother opposite Matt Doyle. With over 100 film appearances, Aaron stars in recent indie hits Theatre Camp and Between The Temples, the upcoming Bookends with F. Murray Abraham, plus classics like Crimes and Misdemeanors, Edward Scissorhands, and Primary Colors.
Aijah Keith
Aijah Keith is the Head of Indie Film Licensing at Hulu, where she spearheads negotiations and strategy across the company’s independent film portfolio.
Annie Murphy
Emmy® Award-winning actress Annie Murphy gained fame as ‘Alexis Rose’ in Schitt’s Creek, which swept nine Emmy® Awards, a Golden Globe for Best Musical or Comedy Series, and a SAG Award for Best Ensemble in its final season.
Jurors for the 2025 Viewpoints Competition are:
Brian Jordan Alvarez
Multihyphenate Brian Jordan Alvarez, named one of The New York Times’ “Breakout Stars of 2023” and Variety’s “10 Comics to Watch” in 2017, currently stars in, showruns, executive produces, writes and directs FX’s acclaimed comedy English Teacher.This summer, he returns as ‘Cole’ in Universal’s anticipated horror sequel M3GAN 2.0.
Jennifer Beals
Jennifer Beals is a Golden Globe-nominated actress, producer, and creative force, known for her captivating performances across film and television..
Raul Castillo
Raúl Castillo recently starred in Paramount’s much anticipated sequel Smile 2, and just wrapped The Hand That Rocks the Cradle alongside Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Maika Monroe, as well as The Casket Girls with Gabrielle Union and Mike Colter. He will be seen next in HBO’s upcoming series Task from Brad Ingelsby, and leads the thriller Push from directors David Charobier and Justin Powell, as well as Cold Wallet which premiered at SXSW. Other films include A24’s The Inspection, which earned him a Gotham Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Performance, Barron’s Cove, which premiered Hamptons International Film Festival, Prime Video’s Cassandro, Miguel Wants to Fight from Hulu, Netflix’s Hustle with Adam Sandler, Cha Cha Real Smooth, and Mother/Android.
Alex Karpovsky
Alex is an actor, writer, and director best known for his starring role as ‘Ray’ in the Golden Globe-winning HBO comedy Girls. Acting credits include The Coen Brothers films Inside Llewyn Davis and Hail, Caesar!, the television series Homecoming opposite Julia Roberts, and Angelyne opposite Emmy Rossum. He will next be seen in Netflix’s Nobody Wants This. A multi-hyphenate, Alex wrote, directed, and starred in the dark comedy Red Flag and the thriller Rubberneck. His award-winning debut feature The Hole Story earned him a spot on Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film. He is currently in post-production on his sixth feature.
Mickey Sumner
Upcoming, Mickey Sumner co-stars in Brad Ingelsby’s HBO limited series Task opposite Mark Ruffalo and Tom Pelphrey, and in Cary Fukunaga’s film Blood on Snow opposite Benedict Cumberbatch and Aaron Taylor Johnson. Sumner starred in Christine Jeff’s feature film A Mistake opposite Elizabeth Banks. The film premiered at the 2024 Tribeca Film Festival to critical acclaim and was released theatrically in September 2024. Sumner starred as a series regular alongside Daveed Diggs and Jennifer Connelly in all four seasons of the dystopian-thriller drama series Snowpiercer based on the Bong Joon-ho-directed feature. She gave a stand-out performance opposite Greta Gerwig in Noah Baumbach’s Frances Ha. She starred in Tim Blake Nelson’s Anesthesia, John Magary’s The Mend, James Ponsoldt’s The End of the Tour, and the comedy This Is Happening. She had a cameo role as Patti Smith in CBGB and played the lead role in Martin Snyder’s Missed Connections, also appearing in Girl Most Likely, American Made, Battle of the Sexes and Marriage Story. Sumner directed I’m Listening in the With/In: Volume 2 anthology which was released in 2021. Her television credits include recurring roles in AMC’s Low Winter Sun, The Borgias, and Caring. Sumner made her Off-Broadway and Atlantic Theater Company debut in Craig Lucas’s world premiere The Lying Lesson. Her other theater credits include the 24 Hour Plays on Broadway, and Tomorrow Morning. Born and raised in England, she currently lives in New York, having graduated with a B.F.A. from Parsons School of Design.
Short Film Competition Categories
Jurors for the 2025 Narrative & Animated Shorts Competition are:
Ilana Glazer
Ilana Glazer is an Emmy Award winner and co-creator, writer, director, executive producer and star, first known for the critically acclaimed show Broad City. Most recently, Glazer made their Broadway debut alongside George Clooney in Good Night, and Good Luck. Glazer released their sophomore stand-up special, Human Magic, on Hulu. Glazer co-wrote and starred in the film Babes (Neon), which premiered in 2024 at SXSW to rave reviews.
Asher Grodman
Asher Grodman is an actor, director, writer and producer who has worked across all mediums. Asher can currently be seen starring as fan-favorite character Trevor on the critically acclaimed CBS comedy Ghosts, for which he earned a Critics Choice Nomination for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy. The series is currently on its fourth season and has been renewed for two additional seasons. Grodman’s other recent television appearances include Succession (HBO), Chicago Med (NBC), House of Cards (Netflix), Elementary (CBS) and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (NBC). Grodman recently directed, wrote, produced, and starred in the Jacksonville Jaguars’ 2023 schedule release video. The schedule release video received 3 nominations at the 2024 Webby Awards in the following categories: Scripted Entertainment, Short Form Branded Entertainment, and Sports Video Entertainment. It also won a 2024 Bronze Lion at Cannes Lion and won at Tribeca X Festival. Grodman is also the writer/director/producer of the award-winning short film The Train starring Academy Award Winner Eli Wallach. The Train was featured in over 25 festivals and won numerous honors including recognitions for Best Film at the Cleveland International Film Festival and the Sedona International Film Festival.
Sheila Nevins
Sheila Nevins is the former president of HBO Documentary Films and Family Programming and former Executive Producer for MTV Documentary Films making her responsible for the development and production of more than 1500 programs. She has received 32 Primetime Emmy® Awards, 35 News and Documentary Emmys and 42 George Foster Peabody Awards. A New York Times best-selling author, Nevins has been honored with numerous prestigious career achievement awards and inducted into Broadcasting & Cable’s Hall of Fame. She has garnered an IDA Career Achievement Award and the New York Women in Film & Television Muse Award for Outstanding Vision & Achievement. Most recently, she was Executive Producer on the 2025 Academy Award nominated film, I Am Ready Warden.
Pamela Ribon
Pamela Ribon is the Academy Award®-nominated creator, performer, and writer of My Year of Dicks, an adaptation of her critically-acclaimed comedic memoir Notes to Boys (And Other Things I Shouldn’t Share in Public), which was nominated for Best Animated Short Film for the 95th Academy Awards. Her screenwriting work includes Moana, Nimona, Ralph Breaks the Internet, and Bears, and has written for television and VR. She’s written several comic books and is a best-selling novelist (My Boyfriend is a Bear, Slam!, Why Girls Are Weird). She co-hosts the podcast Listen To Sassy, a weekly deep-dive through every issue of the beloved 90’s teen Magazine. She is currently writing Emily the Strange for Warner Bros. Animation and Bad Robot and is hard at work on her first documentary. @pamelaribon she/her
Moon Zappa
Moon Unit Zappa is a writer, artist, tea merchant, and podcaster. Her Moon Unit® Tea is currently only available on her website moonunit.com. Her latest book, Earth to Moon-A Memoir, published by Harper Collins/Dey Street Books can be found in hardcover and will soon be released as a trade paperback.
Jurors for the 2025 Short Documentary and Student Visionary Competition are:
Ahmed Ahmed
Actor, comedian, producer, and director known for breaking barriers as the sole Arab-American actor in a non-stereotypical role as “Ahmed” on TBS’ comedy series Sullivan & Son.
Weyes Blood
Natalie Mering, known professionally by her artist name Weyes Blood, is an American singer songwriter with a penchant for the cinematic.
Havana Rose Liu
Havana Rose Liu recently wrapped shooting the independent feature Tuner, for Oscar-winning filmmaker Daniel Roher, starring opposite Leo Woodall and Dustin Hoffman. She can next be seen in the indie feature Lurker for writer and director Alex Russell and executive producer Chris Storer, opposite Archie Madwekwe and in Cooper Raiff’s highly anticipated independent series Hall & Harper, opposite Raiff, Mark Ruffalo, and Lili Reinhart. Both projects premiered at Sundance 2025. Following this, she will be seen in John Carney’s feature film Power Ballad, opposite Paul Rudd and Nick Jonas, as well as Michael Showalter’s feature film Oh What Fun for Amazon, opposite Michelle Pfieffer and Dominic Sessa.
Kim Magnusson
Kim Magnusson is a Danish film producer. He won two Academy Awards for the short live action films Election Night (1998) and Helium (2014), and was nominated five more times.
Kareem Rahma
Three-time Webby-nominated writer, producer, comedian and musician. Creator and host of viral digital series Keep The Meter Running and SubwayTakes, with hundreds of millions of views across platforms.
2025 AT&T Untold Stories Greenlight Committee:
Andrew Ahn
Andrew Ahn is a queer Korean–American filmmaker based in Los Angeles. Ahn’s latest film THE WEDDING BANQUET (Bleecker Street) starring Lily Gladstone, Bowen Yang, and Kelly Marie Tran premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. His previous film FIRE ISLAND (Searchlight Pictures) was nominated for two Emmy Awards and won the Ensemble Tribute at the 2023 Gotham Awards and a GLAAD Award for Outstanding Film Streaming/TV. Ahn’s sophomore feature DRIVEWAYS premiered at the 2019 Berlinale and was nominated for two Independent Spirit Awards. Ahn’s first film SPA NIGHT premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival and won a Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Performance.
David Fortune
David Fortune is a writer and director from Atlanta, Georgia. He was named Variety’s 10 Directors to Watch in 2025 and is a recipient of the 2023 AT&T Untold Stories Award, which provided a $1 million grant to direct his feature film, Color Book. The film premiered at the 2024 Tribeca Festival and has garnered jury and audience awards at festivals around the nation.
Stephanie Hsu
Stephanie Hsu is an award-winning actor known for her work in the Academy Award-winning film Everything Everywhere All At Once. For her role as Joy/Jobu she was awarded the Independent Spirit Award for Best Breakthrough Performance, and nominated for an Academy Award as well as SAG Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her other work includes Mei in The Marvelous Mrs.. Maisel for which she was also awarded Best Ensemble by the Screen Actors Guild.
Marianne Jean-Baptiste
Marianne Jean-Baptiste, acclaimed for her Oscar-nominated role in Secrets & Lies (1996), reunited with director Mike Leigh in his film Hard Truths, a tragicomic look at contemporary life. Marianne’s performance in Hard Truths earned her Best Leading Performance at the British Independent Film Awards as well as the “critics’ trifecta.” She was named Best Actress by New York Film Critics Circle, National Society of Film Critics, and she made history as the first Black actress to win Best Leading Performance from the Los Angeles Film Critics Awards.
Gina Rodriguez
Gina Rodríguez is best known for playing the title role on the hit series Jane the Virgin, for which she won a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Television Series Musical or Comedy. Rodriguez currently stars in Season 3 of ABC’s Will Trent as Assistant District Attorney, Marion Alba.
Kellyn Smith Kenny
Kellyn Smith Kenny is the Chief Marketing and Growth Officer at AT&T where she is responsible for deepening customer relationships, accelerating growth, and elevating AT&T’s premium position
Jurors for the 2025 Games Competition are:
Meggan Scavio
Meggan Scavio brings her experience in conference organization, technology, and video games to her position of President at the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences.
Harvey Smith
Harvey Smith is a game designer, writer, and director with over three decades of experience in video games. Currently the Creative Director and CEO of a new, as-yet-unrevealed game studio, he most recently served as Studio Director at the award-winning Arkane Austin until May 2024.
Shuhei Yoshida
Shuhei Yoshida, a former 38-year Sony veteran and renowned software developer, was one of the initial members of the PlayStation project, and now helps indie publishers and developers to succeed.
Jurors for the 2025 Audio Fiction Competition are:
Sophie Crane
Sophie Crane is the Executive Director of the Transom Story Lab, a cornerstone of the audio storytelling world.
James Kim
James Kim is a Los Angeles based podcast creator and founder of Overtones Media.
Dr. Chioke l’Anson
Dr. Chioke I’Anson is the founder of RESONATE Podcast Festival and director of the VPM + ICA Community Media Center.
Jurors for the 2025 Audio Independent Fiction Competition are:
Stephanie Kuo
Stephanie Kuo is the Vice President of Content at PRX, overseeing the organization’s content strategy, broadcast/podcast acquisition and distribution as well as in-house content and production development.
Megan Nadolski
Megan Nadolski officially began telling stories as the single staff photographer at a newspaper in Milledgeville, Georgia. From there, she went on to tell stories in every place and in every way she could—from a documentary film on women chefs in Saudi Arabia, to covering Chief Tootie Montana’s funeral in the Treme. Some of Megan’s favorite stories are told in a single photograph, and some have taken many interviews to tell. These days, she tells stories through audio, as the COO of Goat Rodeo in Washington, DC. Megan is Goat Rodeo’s driving force behind operations, creative direction, and execution. She’s built Goat Rodeo’s distinct sound and process to always deliver audio you’ll want to keep an ear out for.
Kate Navin
As Head of Creative Development for North America at Audible, Kate Navin shapes the vision and voice of the company’s original content, developing and implementing innovative audio-first strategies with a range of talent and collaborators.
Jurors for the 2025 Audio Independent Non-Fiction Competition are:
Gretta Cohn
Gretta Cohn is CEO of the award-winning audio network and production company Pushkin Industries.
Nichole Hill
Nichole Hill (INDEPENDENT NONFICTION) is an award-winning audio showrunner and creator of the podcasts The Secret Adventures of Black People and Our Ancestors Were Messy, a 2024 Official Tribeca Audio Selection.
Ellen Horne
Ellen Horne is an Associate Professor and Director of the Podcasting and Audio Reportage program at NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute.
Jurors for the 2025 Audio Non-Fiction Competition are:
Caroline Edwards
Caroline Edwards is a Podcast Agent at leading entertainment and sports agency Creative Artists Agency (CAA), where she represents many of the most successful podcast properties, creators, and production companies including Sarah Stewart Holland and Beth Silvers’ Pantsuit Politics, Ronald Young Jr. of ohitsBigRon Studios, ABF Creative, and Handsome, among others.
Sam Sanders
Sam Sanders is an award-winning reporter, radio host and podcaster. He currently hosts and executive produces the The Sam Sanders Show in conjunction with KCRW. He also cohosts the chat show Vibe Check from Stitcher Podcasts with Saeed Jones and Zach Stafford.
Jenna Weiss-Berman
Jenna Weiss-Berman (NONFICTION) is head of podcasts at Paper Kite Productions, and co-creator and producer of Good Hang with Amy Poehler.