The 2010 Tribeca All Access Jurors will review and select the Tribeca All Access Creative Promise Award winners from the filmmakers and their projects in development in this year's program. Learn more about the jury, which includes Anthony Anderson, Rebecca Cammisa, John Cho, Sarita Choudhury, Linda Goode Bryant, Kadeem Hardison, Hill Harper, Michael Kang, Soledad O'Brien, Anika Noni Rose, Victoria Rowell, Kelly Rutherford.
Fenton Bailey
Fenton Bailey is an award-winning filmmaker, cofounder of World of Wonder Productions, and director and producer of feature documentaries such as The Eyes of Tammy Faye, (Lionsgate), Inside Deep Throat (Universal), and Monica in Black and White (HBO). After winning an Emmy for the documentary Party Monster, he and partner Randy Barbato turned it into a scripted feature coproduced with Killer Films. The film screened at the Sundance, Berlin, and Edinburgh film festivals. World of Wonder has created a wide body of television in both the US and the UK. Shows such as Million Dollar Listing (Bravo), Tori and Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood (Oxygen), Machines of Malice (Discovery), Heli-Loggers (TLC), and RuPaul's Drag Race (Logo and VH1) are among the highest-rated on their respective networks. Their work can also be seen on BBC, Channel 4, E!, Oxygen, IFC, MTV, Sundance Channel, PBS, and Showtime.
Anne Carey
Anne Carey, together with partner Ted Hope, founded the New York production company This is that. Specializing in unique content and innovative storytelling, This is that has produced 15 films in its five-year existence. Carey was honored as one of Variety’s Top Ten Producers to Watch in 2004. Carey recently rapped production on Adventureland, written and directed by Greg Mottola and starring Ryan Reynolds, Jesse Eisenberg, and Kristen Stewart. In 2007 Carey produced The Savages, written and directed by Tamara Jenkins. The Savages won best screenplay and best actor honors at the 2008 Independent Spirit Awards and garnered two Oscar® nominations. Carey also executive produced Oscar®-winner Alan Ball’s feature film directorial debut, Towelhead, which premiered at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival. Carey's other credits include Friends With Money, Thumbsucker, and The Door in the Floor.
Emmanuelle Chriqui
Emmanuelle Chriqui, born in Montreal and raised in Toronto, knew that performing was in her future by the early age of seven. After attending Unionville High School for the Performing Arts in Canada and building her resume in community theatre, Chriqui moved to Los Angeles. Upon arriving in LA, she quickly made a name for herself in the states, landing roles in New Line Cinema’s Detroit Rock City, Paramount/Nickelodeon’s Snow Day, and the cult favorite 100 Girls. Emmanuelle continues to build upon her career in film and television. Last summer she starred alongside Adam Sandler in the Columbia Pictures comedy You Don’t Mess with the Zohan, as well as with Adrien Brody in Cadillac Records. Recently she completed production on director Gela Babluani’s 13 with Mickey Rourke, Michael Shannon, and Sam Riley. She can also be seen in the upcoming independent film Saint John of Las Vegas opposite Steve Buscemi. On television, she continues to reprise her role as Sloan on the HBO Comedy series Entourage, opposite Kevin Connolly. Emmanuelle, along with Robin Wright Penn, Emile Hirsch, and Joel Madden, helped launch www.RaiseHopeForCongo.org with respected humanitarian John Prendergast.
Viola Davis
Viola Davis made an indelible impression with her performance in Denzel Washington’s Antwone Fisher, which earned her an Independent Spirit Award nomination. Davis currently stars in the critically revered Doubt, for which she earned Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild, and Academy Award® nominations and a Breakthrough Award from The National Board of Review. Davis makes cameo appearances in the current Madea Goes to Jail and State of Play and the upcoming Law Abiding Citizen, and her additional film credits include Nights in Rodanthe, Disturbia, The Architect, Get Rich or Die Tryin’, Syriana, Far from Heaven, Solaris, Traffic, and Out of Sight. Davis’ television credits include recurring roles on Law & Order: SVU and Jesse Stone, the Emmy-nominated A&E miniseries The Andromeda Strain, Traveler, Century City, Lefty, and City of Angels. In 2004, Davis won best actress awards from the Drama Desk, Drama League, Obie, and Audelco in the Roundabout Theatre Company’s production of Intimate Apparel. In 2001, Davis won a Tony and a Drama Desk Award for her role in King Hedley II. Davis is a graduate of The Julliard School and holds an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts Degree from her alma mater, Rhode Island College.
Luis Guzmán
Luis Guzmán will be seen next alongside Denzel Washington and John Travolta in Tony Scott’s The Taking of Pelham 123. He also appears in the upcoming Fighting with Terrence Howard and Channing Tatum. Among Guzmán’s 60-plus feature film roles are Nothing Like The Holidays, Yes Man, He’s Just Not That Into You, The Cleaner, Maldeamores, Magnolia, Boogie Nights, The Limey (for which Guzmàn received an Independent Spirit Award nomination), Traffic, Out of Sight, War, School for Scoundrels, Fast Food Nation, Waiting, Dreamer, Carlito’s Way, Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events, Anger Management, Confidence, Punch-Drunk Love, and Welcome to Collinwood. Guzmán was born in Puerto Rico and grew up in Manhattan. He graduated from City College, after which he worked as a youth counselor at the Henry Street Settlement House while performing in street theater and independent films. Mr. Guzmán's first big break was a guest appearance on the NBC series Miami Vice. For television, Guzmán recently played a lead role in the HBO series John From Cincinnati.
Ellen Kuras
Ellen Kuras, a three-time recipient of the Sundance Film Festival’s award for best dramatic cinematography, was first widely recognized for her work on Tom Kalin’s Swoon, which earned her an Independent Spirit Award nomination as well as the Sundance prize. Kuras’ photography on Rebecca Miller’s Angela earned her second prize from Sundance in 1995, the same year she was nominated for an Emmy for her work on Century of Women. Kuras began her career in 1987, shooting Ellen Bruno’s Samsara, which received more than 25 international awards and earned Kuras the 1990 Eastman Kodak Best Cinematography Focus Award. Among her other cinematography credits are Unzipped, I Shot Andy Warhol, Blow, Personal Velocity (earning her third cinematography award at Sundance), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Be Kind Rewind, The Ballad of Jack and Rose, Summer of Sam, and Bamboozled. She is the recipient of many professional awards, including the Kodak Crystal Award and a Gotham Award. She made her directorial debut on the documentary The Betrayal – Nerakhoon, for which she received an Academy Award® nomination, and has recently completed shooting Away We Go, directed by Sam Mendes.
Sanaa Lathan
Sanaa Lathan brings a striking presence and undeniable energy to each project she takes on and continues to build on an already impressive career. Lathan was recently seen in director Tyler Perry’s The Family that Preys alongside Perry, Kathy Bates and Alfre Woodard. Later this year, she can be seen in the drama Wonderful World (TFF ’09), opposite Matthew Broderick, and as a voice on the Fox animated show The Clevelands. Recently, Lathan reprised her role as Beneatha Younger in the highly rated ABC Network production of A Raisin in the Sun alongside Sean Combs. Lathan’s most recent credits include her NAACP Award-nominated roles in Something New and Nip/Tuck. She previously starred in Out of Time, Alien Vs. Predator, Brown Sugar, Love and Basketball (for which she won a BET Award and an Image Award), and The Best Man (one of the top 10 grossing African American films in history). In 2004, Sanaa starred in A Raisin in the Sun alongside Combs on Broadway. Her performance earned her a Tony Award nomination for best performance by a featured actress.
Darnell Martin
Darnell Martin is a television and film director, screenwriter, and producer from The Bronx. Most recently, she wrote and directed her third feature film, the major motion picture Cadillac Records (2008) about the history of Chess Records and the many artists who rose to fame on that label. She earned a BA from Sarah Lawrence College and studied film at the New York University Film School. With the 1994 release of her film I Like It Like That, Martin became the first African-American woman to direct and produce a major studio film.
Lola Ogunnaike
Lola Ogunnaike is the pop culture correspondent for CNN's flagship morning news program, American Morning. Ogunnaike has been covering entertainment news since 1999. Prior to joining CNN, she was the top culture reporter for The New York Times and spearheaded its entertainment coverage, writing profiles of celebrities like Jennifer Lopez, Oprah Winfrey, and Sting for the paper's Arts and Leisure section. Before that, she was a features reporter at the New York Daily News, where she covered breaking news on celebrities and entertainment for the paper's entertainment section, and for the Rush and Molloy column. Previously, Ogunnaike was a contributing writer for Vibe magazine, where she was responsible for monthly music features and cover stories. She has also had her work published in Rolling Stone, New York, Glamour, Details, Nylon, The New York Observer, and V Magazine. On air, Ogunnaike has also made regular guest appearances on NBC's Today Show, MTV, and VH1. In 2007, she was named one of Ebony magazine's "150 Most Influential Blacks in America." Ogunnaike received her MFA degree in journalism from New York University and a bachelor's degree in English literature from the University of Virginia.
Lance Reddick
Lance Reddick is currently starring on FOX's hit J.J. Abrams series Fringe as Detective Phillip Broyles and most recently reprised his role as Matthew Abbedon on the ABC show Lost. Reddick is perhaps best known for playing Lt. Cedric Daniels on HBO's critically acclaimed series The Wire, touted by many as the best show on television. Reddick also costars in the Lee Daniels film Tennessee, opposite Mariah Carey, coming later this year. This multifaceted actor is also known for his work on The Corner and OZ and recurring roles on CSI: Miami and Law & Order: SVU, as well as the Showtime film Keep the Faith Baby with Harry Lennix. Born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, Lance attended The Friends School. Reddick has completed a CD of contemporary jazz songs entitled Contemplations & Remembrances. He is also in the process of launching YNC Films, designed to produce small, multiethnic, artistically sophisticated, and socially complex films.
Amy Robinson
Amy Robinson began her career as an actress. Her best-known role was as Theresa in Martin Scorsese’s Mean Streets. She made a career change in the late 1970s and became a film producer. She has produced or executive produced more than films, including Running on Empty, After Hours, For Love of the Game, From Hell, and When Zachary Beaver Came To Town. Her films have garnered many awards, including the Independent Spirit Award for best picture (After Hours), Best Director at the Cannes Film Festival (Martin Scorsese), nominations for two Academy Awards® (Running on Empty), andthe Truly Moving Picture Award at the Heartland Film Festival (When Zachary Beaver Came To Town). She lives in New York City.
