Grand Jury

Janicza Bravo April 6 8:00pm EDT

Janicza Bravo is a writer and director based in Los Angeles. She received her training in theatre at NYU. She’s mounted plays in the states and abroad. Her film work has screened at AFI, BAM, Carnegie Hall, SXSW, Sundance, and Tribeca. Her feature film debut LEMON premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was sold to Magnolia Pictures. Filmmaker Magazine named her as one to watch in “25 New Faces of Film” in 2014. That same year, her short film GREGORY GO BOOM won the Jury Prize for US Fiction at Sundance. She directed the “Juneteenth” episode of Golden Globe-winning FX series ATLANTA as well as episodes of HBO’s DIVORCE, HERE AND NOW, Netflix’s LOVE and DEAR WHITE PEOPLE and Amazon’s FOREVER. Her second feature, ZOLA, premiered in competition at Sundance and will be distributed by A24 domestically and Sony International.

Robert Schwartzman April 6, 2:30pm EDT

Robert Schwartzman is a filmmaker, director, screenwriter, actor, producer and musician. Schwartzman is best known for directing Dreamland, The Unicorn, and The Argument, acting in his cousin Sofia Coppolas’ film The Virgin Suicides, and starring in The Princess Diaries. He is also the frontman & founder of the platinum selling rock/ pop band Rooney and composed the score for his cousin Gia Coppola’s film Palo Alto with music artist Dev Hynes of Blood Orange and the opening song for the Iron Man animated series.

In 2018, Robert co-founded Utopia Media, a company that supports the entire life cycle of the filmmaking and distribution process, from production and acquisitions to marketing and sales. Since its inception, Utopia has launched celebrated titles IFF has been lucky enough to screen like Mickey & the Bear and Shiva Baby. In 2020, Variety announced the launch of Altavod, a platform created by filmmakers for filmmakers to distribute their movies how they want, where they want, when they want.