Festival Jury

2020 Flagship Festival Jury

MICHAEL BROWN

In his career, Michael Brown has excelled as both an adventure athlete and as a filmmaker. He has been to the summit of Mount Everest five times, each time with cameras rolling. His work as a director and cinematographer spans all seven continents and has won many festival and industry awards including three national Emmy Awards. Michael is also a recipient of the International Alliance For Mountain Film's Grand Prix, awards at the Banff Mountain Film Festival, the Explorers Festival's Camera Extreme, and the Giant Screen Cinema Association (IMAX) Outstanding Cinematography Award. Michael's lens has captured ice caves for NOVA, tornadoes for Discovery, science at the South Pole for National Geographic, avalanches for the BBC, and mountain climbing for four giant-screen IMAX movies. Michael has made a habit of going to the world's harshest, most dangerous environments and always comes back with incredible footage and compelling stories. Outside Magazine describes the cerebral filmmaker as a "swashbuckling librarian," and Men's Journal calls him "a master of gut-dropping action."

ADAM MONTGOMERY

As Senior Manager of Programming for the Sundance Film Festival, Adam has overseen the selection process since 2005, with over 14,000 submissions received annually. In addition to programming feature films and documentaries, Adam also programs the Festival’s Midnight section and lends his past experience in television development to Sundance’s newest Festival program, Indie Episodic. Prior to joining the Institute, he spent five years at Imagine Entertainment, where he worked on acclaimed series such as Arrested Development and 24. From 2014-2017, he served as Director of Programming for CIMMfest, a film and music festival based in Chicago.

JAYME MOYE

Adventure journalist Jayme Moye is one of the most highly decorated storytellers in the outdoor industry. Her writing has amassed more than 50 awards, most recently the 2019 Mountaineering Article Award for Mountain Literature given by the Banff Centre, which calls her work “deft, compassionate and extremely compelling.” Jayme is the first woman to have been named Travel Writer of the Year by the North American Travel Journalists Association more than once; in 2014, for traveling to Afghanistan to report on the country’s first female road-bike racing team, and in 2018, for breaking the story on sexual harassment in river-raft guiding in the U.S. Her work can be read in National Geographic, Outside, Bicycling, Alpinist and Rock and Ice, among others. She is co-author with Hans Florine of On the Nose: A Lifelong Obsession with Yosemite’s Most Iconic Climb, a 2017 Best Book Award Finalist.