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    Tuesday, January 08, 2008
    Meet the juries
    The members of the six juries for the 2008 Sundance Film Festival have been announced:

    U.S. Dramatic jury: Marcia Gay Harden, actress (Oscar winner for "Pollack"); Mary Harron, director ("American Psycho," "I Shot Andy Warhol"); Diego Luna, actor ("Y Tu Mama Tambien"); Sandra Oh, actress ("Sideways," "Grey's Anatomy"); Quentin Tarantino, director ("Reservoir Dogs," "Pulp Fiction").

    U.S. Documentary jury: Michelle Byrd (executive director, Independent Film Project); Heidi Ewing, director ("Jesus Camp"); Eugene Jarecki, director ("Why We Fight"); Steven Okazaki, director ("White Light/Black Rain"); Annie Sundberg, director ("The Devil Came on Horseback," "The Trials of Darryl Hunt").

    World Cinema dramatic jury: Shunji Iwai, director ("Swallowtail Butterfly"), Japan; Lucrecia Martel, director ("La Cienaga (The Swamp)"), Argentina; Jan Schuette, director ("Love Comes Lately"), Germany.

    World Cinema documentary jury: Amir Bar-Lev, director ("My Kid Could Paint That"), U.S.; Leena Pasanen, director of the European Documentary Network, Finland/Denmark; Ilda Santiago, executive director of Festival Do Rio, Brazil.

    Short film jury: Jon Bloom, filmmaker and chair of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' short film and feature animation branch; Melonie Diaz, actress ("Be Kind Rewind," "American Son"); Jason Reitman, director ("Juno").

    Alfred P. Sloan Prize jury: Alan Alda, actor ("MASH," "The West Wing"); Michael Polish, director ("Twin Falls Idaho," "The Astronaut Farmer"); Evan I Schwartz, author; Benedict Schwegler, chief scientist for Walt Disney Imagineering's research and development; John Underkoffler, chief scientist and co-founder of Oblong Industries.

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