ERIN K. FLEMING 2025 ISFF DOCUMENTARY JUROR
Erin K Fleming is a filmmaker based in NY/NJ. Fleming runs a full-service production company designed to assist non-profits with content creation. As a seasoned producer/director, her work explores the human repercussions of climate change; civil unrest, terrorism, and social injustice. Her films Drift, The Great Migration and Asbury Park, A Great Circle, & The Other Vincent have been screened at festivals internationally and aired on PBS. She has created content pro bono for international NGOs throughout Africa, SE Asia, and Latin America. In this capacity she works alone in a guerrilla production style functioning as cinematographer, editor, and producer. Fleming creates messaging for global communities while providing agency to those individuals throughout the creative process. She also teaches video production, editing, and documentary filmmaking at Monmouth University.
KAREN MCMULLEN 2025 ISFF DOCUMENTARY JUROR
New York City based film curator and programmer Karen McMullen Senior Feature
and Shorts Programmer at DOC NYC film festivals. Formally, she was the Festival
Director/Head of Programming at Urbanworld; Lead Curator for New Voices in
Black Cinema; Head of Programming for the TIDE Film Festival, and Features
Programmer at Tribeca Festival. She has been a juror at Pan African, Trinidad +
Tobago, Thessaloniki International Documentary, Cleveland International, and
Bentonville film festivals, and on the nominating committees for Gotham Awards,
Film Independent Spirit Awards, Carey Institute, Black Public Media, and Cinema
Eye Honors. Karen participates in panels and interviews for HBO, Netflix, Apple,
Peacock, NY African Film Festival, AfroCannes, Cannes Docs, Visions du Réel and
others, and has guest lectured at Columbia University and NYU. She has editing
credits on features and shorts, and was a professor of film post-production at Long
Island University. Karen graduated from Brown University with concentrations in
French Studies and International Relations.
HASAN OSWALD 2025 ISFF DOCUMENTARY JUROR
Since the start of his filmmaking career, Hasan Oswald has established an ability to capture the human experience through verité cinema. His unfettered access and intimacy with his subjects create a seamless veneer between the filmmaker and subject that heightens the immediacy and personal nature of his storytelling.
He has covered the water crisis in Flint, Michigan (Forgotten USA), drug trafficking and homelessness in Camden, NJ (Higher Love), and the international diaspora of conflict refugees for NatGeo (Hell on Earth).
His latest documentary, Mediha, is executive produced by Emma Thompson and follows a teenage Yazidi girl processing her trauma after being held captive by ISIS. 'Mediha' won the Grand Jury Award and Audience Award runner-up at Doc NYC 2023. Hasan was also named one of Doc NYC’s 40 under 40 documentary rising stars to watch co-presented by HBO Documentary Films.
DAVID KIMPLE 2025 ISFF NARRATIVE JUROR
David Kimple is the CEO & Founder of Tiny Scripted, a distribution company dedicated to short-form work for both screen and stage. He also serves as Director of Business Operations at Narrative Distribution, which oversees the imprint labels Wolfe Video, Chroma, and Persimmon. His previous roles include leadership positions at Samuel French, Inc., Penguin Random House, 1091 Pictures, and Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment (including Screen Media Ventures, Sonar, Crackle, and Redbox). In addition to his work in distribution, David is a published playwright with titles represented by Concord Theatricals and Tiny Scripted.
MICHAEL MAZZEO 2025 ISFF NARRATIVE JUROR
Michael Paris Mazzeo is an artist, educator, and curator who has long traversed the line between art and commerce, having maintained an art practice and teaching studio since 1994 and an eponymous gallery in New York City from 2005 to 2012. The gallery is noted for having produced critically recognized exhibitions, publications, and events and for placing artists' works in prominent museums and private collections, including those of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
His most recent venture, Galerie Lucida in Red Bank, NJ, has become an important art venue for Monmouth County and beyond, providing the community with curated exhibitions, artist talks, and a monthly art salon. Since opening in November of 2023, the gallery has presented two solo and nine group exhibitions.
Michael has been a featured portfolio reviewer at art festivals and conferences including FotoFest, Photolucida, The International Center for Photography (ICP), ASMP, and the Society for Photographic Education, among other organizations.
PIA WILSON 2025 ISFF NARRATIVE JUROR
Pia Wilson wrote the audio component in the Harriet Tubman Monument in Newark, New Jersey, performed by Queen Latifah. She is also a 2024 Johnny Mercer Foundation Writers Grove participant, Traveling Master for Dramatist Guild Foundation, resident with the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Sundance fellow, and member of the 2008 Emerging Writers Group at The Public Theater. Her plays have been produced across the country. Her Webby Award-winning fiction podcast, IF I GO MISSING THE WITCHES DID IT, starring Gabourey Sidibe, was listed as one of the Best New Podcasts of 2021 by Variety and Mashable. She has also written for Audible’s TILL TODAY podcast and Wondery's BLACK HISTORY FOR REAL. In television, Pia has written for film and television and was a staff writer for NatGeo’s GENIUS ARETHA, BET’s SACRIFICE, and A24/Peacock’s Crystal Lake.
