2022 Oxford Film Fest Jury
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Geoff Marslett
Geoff is an animator, director, writer, producer and actor (who also teaches at CU Boulder). His work includes the feature films MARS, Loves Her Gun and Yakona (as producer), as well as the shorts Monkey vs. Robot, The Day Before and most recently The Phantom 52. These films have played at over 100 festivals including Sundance, SXSW and BFI London. He grew up a cowboy with an interest in physics, and has worked in both construction and the Naval Research Lab before becoming a filmmaker. He adores his cat named FatFace, and still genuinely loves making things.
Jennifer Merin
Jennifer Merin is the Editor in Chief for AWFJ.org, the online magazine of the Alliance of Women Film Journalists, of which she is President. She also contributes the CINEMA CITIZEN blog for AWFJ.org. Jennifer has served as a regular critic and film-related interviewer for The New York Press, About.com and Women's eNews. She has written about entertainment for USA Today, The L.A. Times, US Magazine, Ms. Magazine, Endless Vacation Magazine, Daily News, New York Post, SoHo News and other publications. After receiving her MFA from Tisch School of the Arts (Grad Acting), Jennifer performed at the O'Neill Theater Center's Playwrights Conference, Long Wharf Theater, American Place Theatre and LaMamma, where she worked with renowned Japanese director, Shuji Terayama. She subsequently joined Terayama's theater company in Tokyo, where she also acted in films. Her journalism career began when she was asked to write about Terayama for The Drama Review. She became a regular contributor to the Christian Science Monitor after writing an article about Marketta Kimbrell's Theater For The Forgotten, with which she was performing at the time. She was an O'Neill Theater Center National Critics' Institute Fellow, and then became the institute's Coordinator. While teaching at the Universities of Wisconsin and Rhode Island, she wrote "A Directory of Festivals of Theater, Dance and Folklore Around the World," published by the International Theater Institute. Denmark's Odin Teatret's director, Eugenio Barba, wrote his manifesto in the form of a letter to "Dear Jennifer Merin," which has been published around the world, in languages as diverse as Farsi and Romanian. Jennifer's culturally-oriented travel column began in the LA Times in 1984, then moved to The Associated Press, LA Times Syndicate, Tribune Media, Creators Syndicate and (currently) Arcamax Publishing. She's been news writer/editor for ABC Radio Networks, on-air reporter for NBC, CBS Radio and for Westwood One's America In the Morning. She is also a member of the Critics Choice Association. For her AWFJ archive, type "Jennifer Merin" in the Search Box (upper right corner of screen).
Rich Gill
MUSIC/SHORTS
Since 1999 Rich Gill has managed record stores, booked punk rock shows, and helped program the long running Midnight Madness film series at the historic Uptown Theatre in Minneapolis, MN, which he also managed for 17 years. He spent the majority of his 20’s touring the country in his own bands as well as working with respected indie artists such as Motion City Soundtrack and The Lawrence Arms which included stints on the Plea For Peace and Vans Warped tours. In 2007 Rich became Managing Editor and Writer for the popular and critically acclaimed Minneapolis film / music / comedy blog Switchblade Comb. It was through writing for that website that he became a friend of Sound Unseen, a relationship which culminated in joining the team in 2014. Since that time he has become Program Director for the festival and in 2015 was responsible for the first ever public screening of the 1999 "lost" Mitch Hedberg film LOS ENCHILADAS.