Each year Griffith Film School invites guest judges to review the work of the graduating students, and determine the most Outstanding Films, Animations and Games, as well as the most outstanding students.
The industry panel in 2010 included:
Alberto Sciamma
Alberto Sciamma born in Barcelona and studied film at West Surrey College Of Art and Design in the UK; producer, writer and director of feature films and other media.
Alberto started work producing and directing music videos for Mute Records, Rhythm King and Palace Pictures, working mainly with British bands. The Killer Tongue was his first feature as writer/director; an "off the wall, over the fence and far beyond" (as Variety described it) horror comedy starring the three kings of Horror at the time: Robert Englund (Freddy Krueger, of Nightmare on Elm Street fame), Melinda Clarke (Spawn) and Doug Bradley (Pinhead, Hellraiser). The cast also included Jonathan Rhys-Meyers and a few renowned London transvestites.
The supernatural Thriller, Anazapta, was his second movie. A thriller, Jericho Mansions, was his third feature film as a writer/director. The Film was nominated for Best Film at the Montreal World Film Festival in 2003 and also at the Hollywood Festival in the same year.
He has been awarded accolades for his cultural endeavours including a special award for contribution to Australian culture for critical mass from the ANU, Centre for Humanities in 2003 and the Voltaire Award for the Melbourne International Film Festival’s stance on independent and free speech during the 2009 film festival.
Anne Démy-Geroe
Anne Démy-Geroe was the inaugural Artistic Director and then Executive Director of the Brisbane International Film Festival, 1991 to 2010. She concurrently organized the Queensland New Filmmakers Awards and Cinesparks, the Australian Film Festival for Young People. Her work in the film industry began at the State Library of Queensland in 1988 with the development of a film collection and programme, and incorporated the National Film and Sound Archive Brisbane access office.
She a past Council Member of the National Film and Sound Archive and currently serves on the Nominations Council for the Asia Pacific Screen Awards. In 2003 Anne was awarded an Australian Centenary Medal for services to the film industry.
She is currently working on a PhD on Iranian cinema. She continues to curate film programmes and is teaching Asia Pacific Cinema at Griffith Film School.
Jim Woods
Jim Woods entered the games industry in 1989 with Cross Products, supplying the first real-time editing tools to the worldwide game development community. The combination of software and hardware, known as the SNASM development system quickly became established as the industry standard across formats ranging from Atari ST and Amiga through to Dreamcast and Playstation 1. Jim was appointed MD (CEO) of the company in 1993 and left in late 1995 after the business was sold to SEGA. In 1997 Jim joined DMA Design where he stayed for 4 years as Development Director overseeing the development of games such as Grand Theft Auto, GTA2 and GTA3 as well as Space Station Silicon Valley, Tanktics and Body Harvest to name but a few.
Jim established Game Options Ltd in 2002 which has now become Europe's biggest freelance agency for game development staff. Jim joined Codemasters in 2003 and spent two years as Executive Producer on Colin McRae Rally.
After a short spell at Vodafone, Jim again joined SEGA in 2008 as Head of External Development at SEGA Europe, and has recently been Project Director for the launch of Football Manager Live and interim Studio Director for the past year at The Creative Assembly in Brisbane, which has recently been rebranded as SEGA Studios Australia.
Mike Viner
Mike Viner graduated from the Queensland College of Art in 1997 and then founded Liquid Animation in 1999 with his three brothers. Since its humble beginnings in the lounge room, Liquid Animation has thrived and has international studios such as Disney, Warner Bros and Mattel as its clients.
Mike has worked closely with some of Hollywood’s best-known animators and directors including Bruce Smith (Disney Feature Animation Studios, Supervising Animator) and Tony Cervone and Spike Brandt (Animation Directors Warner Bros Studio).
Mike’s work has won local and international awards including Suzuki's 2009 'Story of the SUV-Asaurus', the 2003 animated music video for Brisbane band Powderfinger 'Sunsets', and most recently Best Children’s Animation at Mipcom Cannes for Polly Pockets 2010.
Mike currently is the Creative Director at Liquid leading a team of directors and animators who work in both 2D and 3D as well as overseeing Liquid development properties.
Morgan Jaffit
Morgan Jaffit is one of the founders of Defiant Development, an independent game studio that works in the mobile, console, and web space.
They're currently pushing the edge of Augmented Reality with projects like the award winning Inch High Stunt Guy and Bankshot, and are developing a prototype exploring journalism in war zones in partnership with director Robert Connolly and journalist Tony Maniaty.
Richard Moore
Richard Moore has extensive experience in the film and television industries as an artistic director, executive producer and documentary film maker. Currently employed as Head of Screen Culture for Screen Qld, Richard is responsible for delivering the Brisbane International Film Festival, amongst other duties. Previously he was Executive Director of the Melbourne International Film Festival (2006 -2010). Prior to his role at the MIFF, Richard was content producer for TV 50 –at ACMI. In 2005/06 he was producer/programmer of Real Life on Film 2006. From 1999-2004 Richard was the Executive Producer of TV Arts at ABC TV (1999-2004) where he was responsible for the editorial direction and delivery of the arts output on the ABC’s television platform. This role also saw Richard responsible for commissioning and executive producing a raft of documentaries and working closely with the independent documentary community.
From 1990-1999 Richard was directing and producing arts documentaries, Art From the Heart, Butoh: Piercing the Mask and Charles Blackman: Dreams and Shadows. Richard was also SBS TV Series Producer of the indigenous magazine program, ICAM. Richard obtained a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts from the University of NSW. He has also lectured in several arts related fields at universities across Australia.