JURY for the 8th Annual Golden Trailer Awards

Jim Sheridan

Writer/Director/Producer

My Left Foot, In the Name of the Father, The Boxer, In America, Get Rich or Die Tryin'

Following a distinguished career in the theatre between the 1960s and the 1980s, Jim Sheridan wrote and directed his first critically acclaimed feature, My Left Foot, which was released in 1989. A year later he wrote and directed The Field, and wrote the screenplay for Into the West, which Mike Newell directed in 1992. In 1993 Sheridan wrote, directed, and produced In The Name of the Father, and in 1995 he wrote and produced Some Mother's Son, which was directed by Terry George.

In 1997 Sheridan again wrote, directed, and produced The Boxer and in 1999 he produced Agnes Browne, directed by and starring Anjelica Huston. He is also executive producer of Borstal Boy, On The Edge, and Bloody Sunday. His film In America, which he wrote with his daughters Kirsten and Naomi, produced, and directed, was released in 2003. In 2005 he directed and produced Get Rich or Die Tryin', which was released later that year.

Sheridan's films have achieved popular and critical acclaim throughout the world. His films have garnered sixteen Academy Award nominations and have won two Academy Awards as well as numerous prestigious international awards. Jim Sheridan lives in Dublin and is married with three children.

Ron Berger

CEO, CCO, Euro RSCG Worldwide

Ron Berger is responsible for the management of Euro RSCG's New York and San Francisco-based advertising and marketing services companies. Under Berger's leadership, the agency has acquired new accounts ranging from Charles Schwab to Jaguar, Exxon Mobil, and Verizon Business, and has added major creative, interactive, and strategic assignments including Volvo, Schering-Plough, Oppenheimer Funds, and others.

Berger has been in the advertising business since the age of 18, when he took the summer job of mail boy and center fielder for the Carl Ally agency. His most widely acclaimed work there, the "Time to Make the Donuts" campaign for Dunkin' Donuts, was honored by the Television Bureau of Advertising as one of the five best commercials of the 1980s.

In 1986, he co-founded the agency that became Messner Vetere Berger McNamee Schmetterer. Through the 1990s, the agency was the fastest growing major agency in the industry. His commercial for Volvo titled "Survivors" was selected "Best Commercial of 1993" by Advertising Age. In recognition of this work, Berger was featured in The Wall Street Journal's Creative Leader campaign.

In 2003 Berger directed and produced The Boys of 2nd Street Park, an award-winning documentary that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and appeared on Showtime. After screening at Sundance in 2005, his second film, Ring of Fire: The Emile Griffith Story, premiered on USA Network, and was selected by Entertainment Weekly as one of the 10 best sports documentaries of all time.

Berger is past chairman of the American Association of Advertising Agencies, chairman of Advertising Week, and sits on the Advisory Board for the Children's Health Fund and the Creative Review Committee for the Partnership for a Drug-Free America.

Berger graduated from the University of Hartford in 1971 with a B.S. in psychology. In 2001 he received the Vincent Brown Coffin Award, presented to a former student-athlete who has demonstrated excellence in his profession. And in 2005 he received the Global Leadership Award from the U.J.A.

Jack Myers

CEO, Myers Publishing, LLC

For more than 25 years, Myers Publishing founder and CEO Jack Myers has been an industry thought leader and acknowledged visionary. He is the recipient of the George Foster Peabody award for journalism, won the Crystal Heart Award from the Heartland Film Festival, and has been nominated for both an Academy and Emmy Award.

Myers Publishing is an integrated research and publishing company providing business-to-business and consumer research services to the media and advertising industries. Jack Myers Media Business Report research and publications and Myers' economic forecasts, trend reports, Emotional Connections® consumer research studies and MediaVillage.com® website are recognized as "The Voice of the Marketplace."

Myers established his leadership reputation at CBS Television, where as Director of Marketing and Business Development he successfully built the television industry's first multi-platform integrated marketing initiative and unsuccessfully advocated that CBS invest aggressively in the infant cable television industry. Subsequently, over a twenty-year consulting career, Myers served as strategic advisor to virtually every cable and broadcast network and major media company, several major regional and national marketers, many ad agencies, interactive media developers and a cross-section of television producers and studios. He began his career with the outdoor division of Metromedia and was sales manager at ABC's flagship FM station, WPLJ in New York.

In 1995 President Clinton asked Myers to lead a delegation of advertising executives to the White House Conference on Children's Educational Television. He has co-produced six broadcast network primetime specials with advertiser funding support.

Myers is a member of the board of the Newhouse School of Communications at Syracuse University, serves on the Advisory Board for the Steinhardt School at New York University, is a member of the Academy of Television Arts &Sciences, and serves on the boards of several charitable organizations. He is the author of two books: Adbashing (1993), and Reconnecting with Customers: Building Brands and Profits in The Relationship Age (1998). His new book, Virtual Worlds: Rewiring Your Emotional Future, will be published in 2007.

Martin Pazzani

President & CEO of EliasArts

Elias Arts, the most awarded and biggest commercial music and sound company in history, creates original music and sound design for television, advertising, cinema, and products/environments, and is the pioneer in the new field of audio branding. With clients that have included over 700 of the Fortune 1000, Elias Arts' music, scoring, and audio logos have been used by the most well known brands in the world, including Nike, Adidas, Coke, Pepsi, Infiniti, Lexus, BMW, Cadillac, Audi, Anheuser Busch, Cisco, AOL, Yahoo, Microsoft, Visa, and many others.

A seasoned global executive expert in brand building, integrated marketing, and strategic development spanning the ad agency, corporate and music worlds, Martin has conducted business on six continents and held senior roles at Foote Cone and Belding, the Interpublic Group, DDB Needham, Bally, and Heublein (now Diageo).When not fantasizing about going on tour with U2, he has a thing for adventure: he's climbed major maountains on all seven continents, explored Antarctica, Easter Island, Ngorongoro Crater, the Equitorial Rainforests, and beyond, and as a former F2000 racing driver, he has a keen appreciation for the value of high performance. Now, he mostly jets between NYC and LA, in awe of the musical talent he is surrounded by at Elias Arts, and hoping to someday be asked to jam with the guys in the dub room.

Marc Bernardin

Senior Editor, Entertainment Weekly

For the last eleven years Marc Bernardin has been a member of Entertainment Weekly's senior editorial team, first overseeing EW's video/DVD coverage, and now as the coordinator of the movie review section. In that time he's written hundreds of reviews of everything from movies to TV to books, as well as a regular column called "Trailer Park." This June he will also be a published comic book writer, with his first series, The Highwaymen, being published by DC Comics.

Harris Goldberg

Director/Writer

Numb, Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo, Without a Paddle

Toronto native Harris Goldberg followed his older brother, Dan (writer and producer of Meatballs, Stripes, and other films), to Hollywood, where he sold his first screenplay to National Lampoon. He went on to write the films Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo, The Master of Disguise, Without a Paddle, and Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo and made his feature directing debut with 2007's Numb. Starring Matthew Perry, Mary Steenburgen, Kevin Pollak, and Lynn Collins, the autobiographical Numb recently premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival to sold-out shows. Goldberg is an avid tennis player who was once the second ranked junior tennis player in Canada. He also hosted the Montreal Comedy Festival with Rob Schneider.

Alan Brody

President and Founder, iBreakfast and SAVVE

Alan Brody is the founder of the iBreakfast, the Internet Executive Forum, Start-Up World, the Web 2.0 NY Summit, Madison Ave 2.0 and the IPTV show for Entrepreneurs, Rags2Riches. He also founded the first awards show for technology advertising, marketing, and PR, the Marcom Awards. Brody also works with early stage companies to raise capital.

He was a columnist with Advertising Age's Creativity and editor-at-large at ADWEEK/MC. He has also been a columnist with Newsday, MacWEEK, and BusinessWeek's Executive Newsletter. He has written on branding (Cigarette Seduction), the Web 2.0 business paradigm (Collaboration) and is finishing his first graphic novel, entitled White Shaka.

Jawal Nga

Producer, Tiny Dancer Films

Forty Shades of Blue, Married Life

Jawal Nga was raised in Tripoli and London. He graduated from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in 1996 and worked as an assistant to James Schamus during the production of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon early in his career. In 2004 Nga produced director Ira Sachs' Forty Shades of Blue, starring Rip Torn. An official entry in six international film festivals, Forty Shades of Blue won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival. The film was also nominated for a special prize at the Deauville Film Festival, and was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for actress Dina Korzun. Nga and Sachs worked together again last year on the period drama Married Life, starring Pierce Brosnan, Chris Cooper, Patricia Clarkson and Rachel McAdams. Married Life will be released in 2007.

Harry Knowles

Head Geek, Ain't it Cool News

Harry Jay Knowles is an online film critic best known for his movie news and review website, Ain't It Cool News. He also appears in Sky Movies News for Sky Digital, and since April 2006 has been the film critic for Penthouse magazine. In 2000 he was ranked #95 on the Forbes Power List. Due to Knowles's unorthodox style of journalism, Quentin Tarantino has referred to him as "the Wolf Blitzer of the Internet."

Chris McGurk

CEO, Overture Films

Chris McGurk is CEO of Overture Films, a subsidiary of Starz, LLC that produces, acquires, and distributes feature-length films. Overture recently announced its first acquisition, Ferris Wheel, which will be produced by Charlize Theron and released in fall, 2007.

McGurk spent six years at the helm of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc., where he revamped film and television production, spun off the United Artists division, and negotiated partnerships with major studios including Universal Pictures and Twentieth Century Fox. MGM enjoyed six years of profitable film slates under McGurk's leadership, with such films as Legally Blonde, the Barbershop franchise, Hannibal, and two high-grossing Bond films, The World Is Not Enough and Die Another Day. MGM also released the Academy Award-winning films Bowling for Columbine and No Man's Land. McGurk directed the development of Hotel Rwanda and Capote, which were nominated for eight Academy Awards.

Previously, McGurk served as President and COO of Universal Pictures, as President of Walt Disney's motion picture group, and in various positions for PepsiCo Inc. and Price Waterhouse & Co.

McGurk's charitable interests include the Motion Picture Television Fund and the American Cinematheque. He and his wife, Jamie, were honored for their work with the Help Group, a nonprofit that benefits children with special needs.

McGurk is a summa cum laude graduate of Syracuse University School of Management. The university honored him in 2003 with the Southern California Distinguished Alumnus Award. He holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.

Michael Flaherty

Co-Founder & President, Walden Media

The Chronicles of Narnia, Bridge to Terabithia, Charlotte's Web, Amazing Grace

Before co-founding Walden Media in 2001, Michael Flaherty developed and taught an innovative program to help students from underserved school districts gain acceptance into Boston's elite exam schools. His work has been praised in such national publications as the Wall Street Journal and the Boston Globe hailed him as "an entrepreneur in education." A former speechwriter for Massachusetts senator William Bulger, Flaherty is a graduate of Tufts University, where he met Walden co-founder Cary Granat. His upcoming projects include the next film based on the Chronicles of Narnia series, Prince Caspian, which will be released in May 2008. Flaherty lives in Massachusetts with his wife and children.