Jon Russell Cring (Writer, Director, Producer) \u2013 President\nof the Jury<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nJon Russell Cring is an Award Winning Director of over sixteen feature films, twenty short films, and three television series. Born in Columbus, Ohio in 1971 to creative powerhouse parents, Jon grew up around the arts. Traveling and performing with his family, presenting music and drama on stages criss-crossing the USA. His interest in film, besides rabid fandom, began when he met his future wife and muse Tracy Nichole. Writing a variety show together, STREETWALKING, Tracy started editing and contributing her own unique and sometimes demented ideas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
An unstoppable team was born. After purchasing one of the earliest Digital Video Cameras (Sony TRV 950,) Jon and Tracy spent a resident time in the wilderness of Indy Horror Filmmaking with a collaborator before making their first short film, HANK\u2019S PLACE, which was immediately accepted into regional film fests (Southern Appalachian Film Fest 2006). After completing a string of fifteen experimental short films, Jon decided to do the same with feature-length films and the idea for the ExtraOrdinary Film Project was born.<\/p>\n\n\n\nIb\u00ebr\nDeari (Director, Producer, Writer) \u2013 IFFNY Festival Selector <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nDirector, writer, producer, DOP Ib\u00ebr Deari is born in 1990,\nin Macedonia. He is a talented director and writer, known for his award-winning\nmovies: My City Screams<\/em> (2015), Toka <\/em>(2016), A long way Home<\/em> (2017). Filming is his biggest passion and he has\nbeen making films since high school. He has also written and directed a number\nof short fictional and documentary videos. Ib\u00ebr Deari studied Film School<\/em> at the University of\nAudiovisual Arts \u201cESRA\u201d in Skopje. He graduated in 2013 with the film \u201cLast Confession<\/em>\u201d. Deari earned his\nMaster of Arts in the Department of Film\nDirection<\/em> with the film \u201cToka<\/em>\u201d\n(Land) and thesis \u201cTo Film or Not to Film\u201d. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\nIb\u00ebr Deari is the winner of numerous prestigious international awards, including: Best Artist<\/em> in Macedonia from Milingona e Art\u00eb; Best Film<\/em> for \u201cBetween Paradise and Hell\u201d from G\u00e4ssli Film Festival in Basel, Switzerland; the Audience Award<\/em> for Best Film<\/em> for \u201cLast Confession\u201d at New York Albanian Film Week in Manhattan; Best Director<\/em> and Best Film<\/em> for \u201cMy City Screams\u201d at the Nine Eleven Festival in Prishtina, Kosovo; Best Short Film<\/em> and Best Director<\/em> for \u201cLand\u201d and Best Director<\/em> for \u201cA Long Way Home\u201d at the International Filmmaker Festival of New York in Manhattan.<\/p>\n\n\n\nMaja Wampuszyc <\/strong>(Actor, Director)<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nMaja Wampuszyc is known for: The Immigrant<\/em> by James Gray (Cannes and New York Film\nFestival 2013) opposite Oscar Winner Marion Cotillard. Produced by Oscar\nWinners Anthony Katagus (Twelve Years a Slave) & Greg Shapiro (The Hurt Locker); Mrs. Zygmund on The Knick<\/em>, directed by Oscar Winner Steven Soderbergh;\nMagda Nagy on Madam Secretary<\/em> directed by Robert\nGreenlea. <\/p>\n\n\n\nMost recently she produced the award-winning documentary Where are we now? The Italian American Today<\/em> by Richard Vetere. Her film works include Mona Lisa Smile by Mike Newell and Shopping by Henry Jaglom. As a director, she is a Member of the Playwright Directors Workshop at The Actors Studio developing two plays by Richard Vetere Aleppo<\/em> and Zag\u0142ada<\/em>. Member of Third Wing Media Ensemble currently in rehearsals for the Genius Project<\/em> in the role of Ayn Rand. Maja Wampuszyc is represented by Bret Adams Artists Ltd.<\/p>\n\n\n\nMiranda Jean Larson <\/strong>(Actor, Producer)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nMiranda Jean Larson is an Actor, Writer, and Producer living in NYC. As an actress she has performed in several theatrical productions around the city, her favorites having been by Shakespeare or Oscar Wilde or anything wonderfully weird. She has also acted in several short films which includes her first professional writing, directing, and producing credit: \u201cInnocence\u201d which won several awards at film festivals including Best Short Film (IFFNY 2018) and Best Indie Film (Top Shorts: March 2018). Miranda is currently producing a new short film with writer Veneta Callpani called \u201cInward\u201d which is in script development. She is also hard at work writing her first feature film which she hopes to bring to life in 2020. She is so excited to be back with IFFNY this year as a juror! <\/p>\n\n\n\nCarlos Freire (Director, Producer)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nCarlos Freire is an\nEcuadorian-born award-winning documentary filmmaker. Carlos graduated with an\nAA degree in Media Studies<\/em>, a BA\ndegree in Film Production<\/em> and a MFA\nin Media Communication Arts<\/em> focused\nin Documentary Production. As a communicator, Carlos has produced media for\nmore than fifteen years. He is known for producing Terraza 7 and My Dream At The Other Side <\/em>and Qween Amor. <\/em>Carlos was given recognition from the President of the\nBorough of the Bronx for his commitment to the art community of New York City.<\/p>\n\n\n\nAs an international content creator Carlos covered the visits of the president of Ecuador to China and Saudi Arabia. In these trips he had the opportunity to work closely with presidents of other countries as well. This work was aired in Ecuadorian news channels and presented as documentaries. He also produced two television shows, Business in Queens<\/em> hosted by the Queens Chamber of Commerce at Queens Public Television (QPTV), and Guerrilla Mosh TV<\/em>, a rock music television show aired in Manhattan Neighborhood Network (MNN). <\/p>\n\n\n\nDr. Amina Zhaman (Writer, Director, Actress)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nAmina Zhaman is a NY-based Circassian filmmaker, musician, theatre director, critic and scientist. Winner of Golden Apricot 2013 (Armenia, \u201cContribution in a Debut Film\u201d Award), Loutraki International Film Festival 2013 (Greece, \u201cBrightest Debut\u201d), International Rights Film Festival \u201cSTEPS\u201d 2013 (Ukraine, \u201cBest Script\u201d, \u201cBest Actress\u201d, \u201cBest Music Video Against War\u201d), Albanian Film Week International Festival in New York 2013 (USA, \u201cAudience Award for Best Feature Film\u201d \u2013 \u201cRight to Love\u201d), International Festival of Circassian Culture 2014 and 2016 (Russia), International Film & TV Festival Slavic Fairy Tale 2016 (Bulgaria, \u201cBest Short Film\u201d).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Screenwriter of an internationally acclaimed hit feature \u201cRight to Love\u201d (dir. by Paul Kurti, USA, 2012). Amina Zhaman directed and starred in the first ever screen versions of American classical plays \u201cBefore Breakfast\u201d (USA, 2014) and \u201cThe Movie Man\u201d (USA, 2016) written by Eugene O\u2019Neill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 2017 Zhaman premiered her debut stage production \u201c7 Days. 7 Nights\u201d. Currently she is working on her second theatre show and gives master-classes on filmmaking, film management, American drama, journalism in entertainment industry and importance of English language in international career at the best academies around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\nThe International Filmmaker Festival of New York will gather a diverse influential and creative voices across film, art, culture, to award 10 prizes in feature films, short films, documentary films, animation and music videos. The awards ceremony announcing the winners will be held on May 21, 2019 at Dolby Laboratory Theater in Manhattan. Hosting the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7453,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19374,"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7446\/revisions\/19374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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