Sony Pictures Entertainment Innovative Filmmaking Award
(Juried Quarterly Award)

One (1) overall Sony Pictures Entertainment Innovative Filmmaking Award Winner of a Sony Action Cam and waterproof case (valued at $350).

Rules: Films in competition consist of all short and feature-length films screened at the NFMLA festival within that annual quarter.

Quarters are defined as:
January – March (Winner announcement early April)
April – June (Winner announcement early July)
July – September (Winner announcement early October)
October – December (Winner announcement early January).

The Jury consists of:

Scott Budnick
Producer, ‘The Hangover’
Green Hat Films

Steven J. Wolfe
Producer
‘500 Days of Summer’
Sneak Preview Entertainment

Kamila Blanche
Arts & Culture Deputy
LA City Council
Tom Labonge, District 4

Shelley Leopold
Marketing Director
LA Weekly

 

Paul Audley
President
Film LA

Susie Kim
Artistic Director
NewFilmmakers LA

Amy Lemisch
Executive Director
CA Film Commission

Cliff Hsui
Vice Pres of Marketing
Alternative Rentals

 

Larry Laboe
Executive Director
NewFilmmakers Los Angeles

Debra Martin Chase
Producer
‘The Princess Diaries’
‘The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants’
Martin Chase Productions

Rosalind Helfand
CFO
NewFilmmakers LA

Ilyanne Morden Kichaven
Executive Director
SAG-AFTRA

 

Marshall Persinger
Producer, Rectify

Demian Lichtenstein
Producer/Director
‘3000 Miles to Graceland’
Equilibrium Entertainment