Meet our Jury!

Meghan Scibona

Meghan Scibona has directed and produced videos for Vogue, Vanity Fair, Allure, Bon Appetit, Glamour, Self, Teen Vogue and W Magazine. Meghan co-directed the feature film BLOOD JUNKIES, which the NY Daily News called, “a vampire film with some bite”. She directed the Nickelodeon web series EXIT STRATEGY, the series POD OPERA BROOKLYN and WING WOMEN and numerous short films. Meghan is Co-Producer of the feature GHOST CLUB, which received distribution. She is in development for the feature films HERE’S TO A VIRGIN CHRISTMAS and HAPPILY (N)EVER AFTER, both of which she will direct. She is producing the feature documentary BLACKOUT (in post). Meghan did stints at Focus Features in the development department and at the Tribeca Film Festival in the press department. She has spoken on panels about filmmaking at The Art Of Brooklyn Film Festival, South by Southwest Film Festival and with New York Women in Film And Television (NYWIFT).  She is a member of the FilmmakeHers , NYWIFT and The Directors Collective NYC. 

Dave Chan

Dave Chan is the founder of Navy Yard Films, a Brooklyn-based independent film production company. An acclaimed screenwriter and producer, his short comedy script “Fly!” he will produce and direct is a winner of the Academy Award-qualifying Nashville Film Festival. In addition, his "Family Guy: What The Phuc?!" spec script has either won or placed in almost 25 competitions including the prestigious Austin Film Festival. Dave is a co-writer and co-producer of the hilarious crime-comedy feature “Sure Fire!” to be directed by his creative partner, Michael Goldburg. Their previous collaboration “What’s Eating Dad?” — a winner and nominee at almost 20 festivals internationally — screened at the Art of Brooklyn Film Festival in 2015. Dave also regularly consults for television and movie projects including the taut action film “Ambushed” starring Dolph Lundgren and Vinnie Jones and a TV pilot currently in development at Fox.

Anthony DeVito

Anthony DeVito is the co-founder and Communications Director of the Art of Brooklyn Film Festival and  a SAG-AFTRA actor, with TV credits that include Season 4 of House of Cards, NBC's The Mysteries of Laura and Blindspot,  HBO's Boardwalk Empire, Rescue Me and more.  He appears in the 2017 Slamdance Audience Choice winner 'Future '38' alongside Betty Gilpin (GLOW on Netflix) and Sean Young.  Anthony also has over 20 years experience in the world of advertising as an award-winning art director, copywriter and creative director, working on ads and campaigns for television, print, interactive and social media at NYC's top ad agencies.  He is also the main creative force behind the branding, graphic design and marketing of the IndieBOOM! Festival.

Kelvin Phillips

Kelvin Phillips is an award-winning independent filmmaker, whose work has screened at numerous festivals, premiered on HBO/Cinemax, and is available on multiple screening channels online. His most recent film Black Suns: An Astrophysics Adventure won the Jury Prize at the 2017 Art of Brooklyn Film Festival. In addition to his film work, Kelvin was recently the head of production at a Brooklyn-based ad agency and currently heads the operations of a documentary series at WebMD. Kelvin received his Bachelor of Arts in Film Directing from Howard University and Master of Fine Arts in Dramatic Writing from New York University. He is Co-CEO and Chief Creative Officer The Bridge.

Eric Trenkamp

Eric Trenkamp is an award-winning writer/director whose short films and documentaries have been featured on IFC and Current TV, as well as in festivals in New York and Los Angeles. His feature film American Bomber won awards at numerous film festivals, including the Manhattan Film Festival (Best Feature), Art of Brooklyn (Best Director) and Mississippi International Film Festival (Best Feature) and is currently distributed by IndiePix Films. He lives in Brooklyn, New York where he is on the faculty of the Film/Video Department at the Pratt Institute.

Alan McLane-Alejos

Alan McLane-Alejos is a León, México and Brooklyn based film curator with 10 years of experience in festivals and film education. He has been involved within New York independent film community programming series for the Bushwick Film Festival, collaborating as jury member for The Art of Brooklyn Film Festival since 2014, Cine Las Américas International Film Festival in Austin, 2017 and overseas as jury member for the Jaipur International Film Festival, India in 2017. Site