2022 Oxford Film Fest Jury

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Jean Anne Lauer

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Jean Anne LAUER has promoted the development and exhibition of independent film and media on the festival circuit since 2004, specializing in Latinx, Iberoamerican, and Indigenous titles. She first discovered her passion for the field when working with the International Pitching Market at the Guanajuato International Film Festival (Gto, Mexico, 2004 through 2013). Since then, Jean has also joined the team at Cine Las Americas International Film Festival (Austin, TX, 2008 to present), and at Fantastic Fest (Austin, TX, 2013 to present). Along with building a professional résumé and working with filmmakers in the US and abroad, Jean completed her Ph.D. in Radio-Television-Film at UT-Austin in 2016, and is currently a Professor in the Dept. of Philosophy, Religion, and Humanities and the Dept. of Radio-Television-Film at Austin Community College.

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Nat Dykeman

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Nat founded the Lake County Film Festival in 2004, and has been programming at Nashville film festival since 2015. He used to own one of the biggest video stores in Illinois, and started a DVD label in the 2000's. He also produced the narrative feature QWERTY. By the time you read this, he will have started production on his directorial feature, a documentary about raccoons.

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Rachel Morgan

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Rachel Morgan is the creative director for the Sidewalk Film Festival and Sidewalk Film Center & Cinema, as well as an instructor of Media Production at Lawson State and a Scriptwriting instructor at the University Of Montevallo. She was a co-instructor in the Documenting Justice documentary film program at the University of Alabama for 13 years and is a former contributor to Film Threat. She received a BFA from The Savannah College of Art and Design in Film/Video Production and a MA in Film Critical Studies from the University of Alabama where her focus of study was Children and Adolescence in Cinematic Horror. She recently served as the programming lead for the 2021 Sundance Film Festival Satellite Screen in Birmingham, AL and also co-hosts the cinema-centric podcast, SideTalks, in which she is usually right and her co-host, Corey Craft, is always wrong.

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