DAVID CASSIDY 2024 DOCUMENTARY JUROR
David Cassidy is a Peabody Award Winning and Emmy Nominated Documentary Producer and has produced documentary series and features with two-time Academy Award winning director Barbara Kopple and Cabin Creek Films for over twenty years. His producing credits include Dixie Chicks: Shut Up & Sing, Miss Sharon Jones, Running From Crazy, ESPN 30 For 30’s The House of Steinbrenner, and the recently released HBO Max documentary Gumbo Coalition, among others. Cassidy graduated Seton Hall University Cum Laude in June 2024 and is extending his career to include litigation and intellectual property work. Cassidy also produces podcasts for iHeartRadio, his first garnering an NAACP Image Award nomination. Civically, he lives in Red Bank, New Jersey where he serves as a volunteer firefighter and was recognized as the 2022 firefighter of the year. Since July 2023 Cassidy has served as an elected member of the Red Bank Council.
BEDATRI D. CHOUDHURY 2024 DOCUMENTARY JUROR
Bedatri is The Philadelphia Inquirer's Arts and Entertainment Editor. Before this, she worked extensively with documentary films, particularly in the areas of program management and commissioning. She was most recently the Managing Editor of Documentary magazine, and is a programmer with DOCNYC and SFFILM. An alumna of the NYFF Critics Academy, Sundance and SXSW Press Inclusion Initiatives, the National Critics' Institute, and Berlinale Talents, she shuttles between New York City and Philadelphia, and can often be heard on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour.
GINA CUOMO 2024 DOCUMENTARY JURY
Originally from Queens, Gina began her love of cinema as a little girl. She started working in multiplexes as a teenager before moving her way into the non-profit sector. In 2006, she began working at the Denver Film Society where she spent the next 16 years as the Director of Operations, running the year-round Sie FilmCenter and operating many film festivals under their umbrella, including the Denver International Film Festival, Women+Film Festival, SeriesFest, and the Stanely Film Festival.
Gina started Cinema Operations Consulting in 2022 and has worked with organizations such as Vidiots Foundation in LA, Coral Gables Art Cinema in Miami, and Coolidge Corner Theatre in Boston.
Aside from her love of the cinematic experience, Gina is an avid baseball fan and a loyalist to the hit television phenomenon LOST.
SAMANTHA BERGESON 2024 NARRATIVE JUROR
Senior News Editor Sam Bergeson joined IndieWire in January 2022 after being a years-long fan of the site. A Bay Area native, Sam graduated with a double major in Journalism and Tisch Cinema Studies from New York University. Her work has appeared in Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, TV Insider, and E! Online.
RYAN D. MOORE 2024 NARRATIVE JUROR
Ryan D. Moore is a screenwriter, professor, and filmmaker based out of NJ. His short screenplays have been produced and screened around the world— including the Cannes Film Festival in France. His feature film MARIJUANA MINUTES played at festivals worldwide (Including Indie Street!) and picked up distribution in the fall of 2023. He teaches Screenwriting at Fairleigh Dickenson University. He works with Montclair Film as their Education Program Manager.
