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Judging 2011Throughout July, committees of preliminary judges screened and ranked films entered within each specific category. Over 80 judges from around the world were enlisted to screen more than 500 films competing for recognition in the 22 program, content and craft categories. Craft categories were judged by peer committees (i.e., writers judge “Best Writing,” editors judge “Best Editing,” etc.). Category finalists, announced in August, will be reviewed by our Final Jury of experts immediately prior to the Festival, with winners to be announced at the Awards Ceremony and Gala Celebration, Thursday, October 6th. All films entered into competition are eligible for the Grand Teton (Best of Festival) Award. Final Judges
Final Judges 2009David Curl
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Caroline Brett is an award-winning, freelance producer and director. Her still photographs are housed at the Specialist Stock Films Library and she has had numerous articles published and written seven books on wildlife. Caroline worked for twenty-one years for the prestigious Survival series making programs around the world including out on the ice in Arctic Canada, in the rainforests of Sierra Leone and on a remote Vietnamese island in the South China Sea. She also made programs for the Anglia series Animals in Action, Predators with Gaby Roslin and Wild about Essex presented by Tony Robinson. More recently as an independent director and producer, she has made films on macaws in Peru for Granada/WNET, black caiman in Brazil for National Geographic, railway children in India for Channel 4 International and the history of the pearl trade in Bahrain for the Save our Seas Foundation. 
Natalie Cash is the Senior Producer in charge of video production for the Bronx Zoo-based Wildlife Conservation Society, an international conservation organization with more than 3,000 field staff in 65 countries. WCS also operates the largest system of urban wildlife parks in the world, educating four million visitors each year about the importance of conservation. With two decades experience in the industry, Cash creates innovative programming about WCS projects for multiple platforms including web, radio, television, and in-park 4D immersion theatres. This year she has directed films for the society on location in Afghanistan, Cambodia and Indonesia. She led WCS’ media partnership with National Geographic, overseeing a diverse slate of programs including Eden at the End of the World, The Human Footprint and Mystery Gorilla. Prior to joining WCS, she was a series producer and writer at the Emmy Award-winning documentary production company Pangolin Pictures.
Liesl Clark has travelled the globe writing, producing and directing many of the world’s most extreme filming expeditions, including filming elephant behaviour deep inside bat-infested caves on the Kenya-Uganda border, exploring the affects of high altitude on humans on Mount Everest, documenting the unearthing a 500-year-old frozen Inca mummy on an 18,000 foot Andean peak, and discovering the body of George Leigh Mallory high on the North Face of Everest. In 2001, she and a team of world-class climbers, including Jon Krakauer and Conrad Anker, pioneered a new route to the highest point on the southernmost continent to study the rates of snow accumulation in Antarctica’s highest mountains. Her NOVA film about the expedition, which took her to a hostile land no humans have trod, won a Prime Time Emmy Award for Cinematography. Liesl was producer, series producer, director, and writer at NOVA for 7 years. Her films, which include footage she shoots at high altitude, have won the Columbia Dupont Gold Baton and have won awards in several film festivals around the world. She is now an independent filmmaker, working currently with National Geographic Television, directing and shooting a 5-year project uncovering 2000-year-old human mortuary populations found inside cliff caves in the remote Himalayan Kingdom of Mustang.
David Elisco has been writing and producing award-winning science and natural history documentaries for more than 20 years. As Vice President Creative Affairs for Sea Studios Foundation, Elisco served as Series Producer and Producer for all projects, including the award-winning National Geographic’s Strange Days on Planet Earth, hosted by Edward Norton; The Shape of Life, an eight-hour series for PBS; and Oceans in Glass, for WNET’s Nature. Prior to joining Sea Studios Foundation, Elisco served as Vice President for Stardust Visual, where he produced six hours of programming for the Discovery Channel, including Titanic: Anatomy of a Disaster. Most recently, Elisco produced, directed and wrote several films for National Geographic Television and Film, including Sex, Lies & Gender, which investigates new science surrounding human sexuality; “Countdown to Catastrophe,” a two hour special which examines impending disasters posed by tsunamis and earthquakes and Virus Hunters, which probes a provocative new theory that viruses are the major driver in the creation of complex life on Earth. Elisco is a member of the IUCN’s Commission on Education and Communication, serving as a consultant and producer on several non-broadcast projects designed to create measurable impact regarding science, the environment and sustainability. 
Harvey Locke is globally known for his work on wilderness, national parks and large landscape conservation from Yellowstone to Yukon and beyond. An accomplished photographer, author and former attorney, Locke is Strategic Advisor to the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative, and a member of the IUCN's World Commission on Protected Areas. He serves as Vice President for Conservation Strategy at the WILD Foundation (where he helps lead the “Nature Needs Half” movement) and served as President or Vice President of the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society for many years and is now its senior advisor on conservation. He developed and helped curate "Yellowstone to Yukon: the Journey of Wildlife and Art" with the National Musuem of Wildife Art, The Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, and artist Dwayne Harty. Named by TIME magazine as one of Canada’s leaders for the 21st century, his resume is filled with premier publications, keynote speaking engagements and leadership and advisory roles for some of the most well-known organizations in the conservation field. He has appeared in and helped develop many films about conservation in Canada, the US and Australia