EXCLUSIVE: New York Worldwide Youngsters’s Movie Competition has introduced its 2025 jury, together with Lake Bell, Seth Meyers, Bob Odenkirk, Matthew Modine and Guillermo Martinez, Director and Head of Story at Sony Photos Animation. Scroll down for the total jury.
The Competition, closing its twenty ninth version this weekend, is an Oscar-qualifying competition for brief movies. NYICFF’s 2024 jury award-winning movie Magic Candies certified by final yr’s occasion and was nominated for a 2025 Academy Award. Along with Magic Candies, NYICFF screened Oscar nominee Yuck as a part of its 2024 slate.
NYICFF additionally introduced a preview screening of Greatest Animated Characteristic winner Circulation, adopted by a Q&A with co-writer and producer Matīss Kaža, final November, in addition to Oscar nominees Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (with Q&A with director Merlin Crossingham) and The Wild Robotic (with Q&A with director Chris Sanders and lead Lupita Nyong’o) as a part of its year-round preview screening collection in 2024.
NYICFF 2025 runs by March 16 with awards to be introduced on March 19 on the competition’s social media platforms.
NYICFF 2025 Jury [provided by the festival]
Lake Bell
Actor, author, director, and writer of All About Brains: A E book About Folks
Guillermo Martinez
Director and Head of Story at Sony Photos Animation
Seth Meyers
Emmy successful comic and host of Late Evening with Seth Meyers; writer of I’m Not Scared, You’re Scared
Matthew Modine
Emmy nominated actor (Zero Day, Oppenheimer) and producer
Chris Nee
Emmy-winning author, producer, and creator, Doc McStuffins
Bob Odenkirk
Emmy-winning author, actor (Higher Name Saul, No person), and writer of best-selling kids’s guide Zilot and Different Vital Rhymes!
Erin Odenkirk
Illustrator of best-selling kids’s guide Zilot and Different Vital Rhymes! and former NYICFF intern
Ellen Su
Animation Director and Inventive Recruiter
Kay Wilson Stallings
Govt Vice President, Chief Artistic Growth and Manufacturing Officer for Sesame Workshop
