FILM AWARD JURY

Carl Zimmer

Carl Zimmer writes about science regularly for the New York Times and magazines such as Discover, where he is a contributing editor and columnist. He is the author of six books, the most recent of which is Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life. His website is carlzimmer.com and his e-mail address is blog@carlzimmer.com

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David Eagleman

David Eagleman is a neuroscientist and a writer. He directs the Laboratory for Perception and Action and the Initiative on Neuroscience and Law at Baylor College of Medicine. He is best known for his work on time perception, synesthesia, and neurolaw. At night he writes. His work of fiction, SUM, is an international bestseller published in 23 languages. His book on the internet and civilization, Why the Net Matters, is available as an app for the iPad and as an eBook. His latest book, Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain, explores the neuroscience “under the hood” of the conscious mind–that is, all the aspects of neural function to which we have no awareness or access. Eagleman is a Guggenheim Fellow. His website is eagleman.com

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Darcy Kelley

Darcy Kelley is a Harold Weintraub and HHMI Professor of Biological Sciences at Columbia University, studies vocal communication. She focuses on molecular, behavioral and evolutionary mechanisms that underlie the exquisite match between hearing and specific vocalizations. Using molecular, genomic and highly sophisticated physiological methods, she has identified sex-specific structures, neural circuits and interactive vocal behaviors that shaped by the expression of sex steroids and their receptors in African clawed frogs. In addition to the research program in her laboratory, she has a long-standing interest in the portrayal of science in theater and films.  Dr. Kelley serves as a scientific consultant for the EST Sloan Project and has been a jurist for the Tribeca, Sundance and Imagine Film festivals and a panelist at the Tribeca Film Institute Sloan Science Summit, Sundance, Imagine and East Hampton Film Festivals.
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Robb Moss

Robb Moss is a documentary filmmaker who has taught film making at Harvard University for the past twenty-five years. His films have screened at such film festivals as Tribeca, Telluride, the Cinema du Reel, as well as at the Film Forum, Lincoln Center and the Museum of Modern Art. He has served on film festival juries at Sundance, San Francisco, Denver, Ann Arbor and Boston, is a creative adviser for the Sundance Documentary Story/Edit Labs, and is currently on the Board of Directors for ITVS. His most recent two films, “The Same River Twice” (2003) and “Secrecy” (2008, directed with Peter Galison) premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. He and Galison are currently working on a film about the burial of nuclear waste.