LOS ANGELES FILM CRITICS ASSOCIATION JURY

Jordan Cronk

Jordan Cronk is a freelance film critic and programmer based in downtown Los Angeles. He’s the founder of Acropolis Cinema, an itinerant screening series of experimental, international, and undistributed films, and is co-director of the Locarno in Los Angeles film festival. His writing has appeared in Artforum, Cinema Scope, Film Comment, frieze, The Hollywood Reporter, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and Sight & Sound.

Mark Keizer

Mark Keizer is senior film critic for Cinegods.com. His reviews have also been published in Variety, Boxoffice Magazine, Entertainment Today and L.A. Citybeat. He co-authored the book Ultimate DVD: The Essential Guide to Building Your DVD Collection, published by the Berkley Publishing Group. Keizer’s career also encompasses daytime talk, late night comedy, reality and game show development, variety shows, live news, short form branded and non-branded content and hidden camera. Most recently, Mark was Executive Producer of New Media at E! Entertaiment Television. Before that, he was Co-Executive Producer of Seasons 5 and 6 of Comedy Central’s The Man Show, hosted by Joe Rogan (Fear Factor) and Doug Stanhope. Mark’s work on The Man Show was the culmination of an overall deal with Stone-Stanley Entertainment, in which he oversaw development of the SpikeTV reality hit, Joe Schmo. Also for Stone-Stanley Entertainment, he served as Co-Executive Producer of the Animal Planet hidden camera comedy special Animal Pranksters. Keizer’s daytime duties include Supervising Producer of the syndicated talkfest The Roseanne Show.

Jean Oppenheimer

Jean Oppenheimer has had a checkered career but now leads a fairly focused life, serving as a Los Angeles correspondent for American Cinematographer magazine (an association that began in 1991) and reviewing films for Writers Bloc, a non-profit, literary organization based in Los Angeles (http://www.writersblocpresents.com). Her work also has appeared in The Village Voice, The New York Times syndicate, Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, Screen International and New Times. She spent 11 years as a film critic at Los Angeles NPR station KPCC’s FilmWeek.

Chuck Wilson

Chuck Wilson has been writing freelance movie reviews and conducting interviews with filmmakers for the L.A. Weekly since 1997. He made his way to print via a pre-Internet, self-published (copy machine/envelopes/stamps) series of personal essays known as “Flickers”, which have sought to figure out the interior connections one makes while watching a given film. Chuck lives in Silverlake, with his dogs Wyatt & Janey.

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