Trover is thrilled to have four distinguished members of the independent film and art community serve as jurors:

Steve Hamilton has worked in New York City for 18 years as an editor and sound designer for many Independent Filmmakers including Hal Hartley, Ang Lee, Michael Almereyda and Rea Tajiri. In 1995 he provided the sound for Matthew Barney’s first Cremaster film and since then has collaborated extensively within the art world with Barney, Pierre Huyghe, and Burt Barr, and on the stage with Cathy Weis, and theater director Travis Preston among others. His own sound and video installations have been displayed at the New Museum in NYC, Queens Museum of Art, Triangle Project Space in San Antonio, The Swiss Institute, and at the Geneva Bienalle.

Julia Loktev was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, and immigrated to the United States at age nine. Julia initially started out as an audio artist, and eventually moved to film. Her New York University thesis film Moment of Impact, which she shot alone without a crew, won Directing Award at Sundance, Grand Prize at Cinéma du Reél, and Best Documentary at Karlovy Vary. She also makes multiple-screen video installations in a museum/gallery context and has shown work at Tate Modern in London, P.S.1 in New York, Haus der Kunst in Munich, Bienal de Valencia, Mito Art Tower in Japan. Her first feature film, Day Night Day Night, won the Prix Regards Jeune at the Cannes Film Festival in 2006. She currently lives in New York.

Tommy Pallotta is a visionary storyteller who creatively blends technology into filmmaking, animation and interactivity. He hooked up with Richard Linklater while studying Philosophy at University of Texas, and ultimately produced serveral films with him, including Slacker, Waking Life, and A Scanner Darkley. Tommy's penchant for innovation was recognized by Microsoft's Research and Development team when he helmed an interactive project based on Jonathan Lethem's novel Amnesia Moon for the Xbox platform. Tommy also directed the first music video using machinima technology, the award winning In the Waiting Line, as well as the rotoscoped MTV "Breakthrough Video" Destiny, both for the band ZERO 7. Tommy has produced several short animated films that have won numerous awards and screened internationally, including Snack and Drink, which resides as part of a permanent collection in the New York Museum of Modern Art.

Gregg Hale attended film school in Orlando, Florida at both Valencia Community College and the University of Central Florida. He worked as a set dresser and prop man on features and TV shows in Orlando and LA for ten years before producing The Blair Witch Project in 1999. Gregg received the Nova Award as outstanding new producer from the Producer’s Guild of America for his work on that film. Gregg co-created the television series Freakylinks for Fox Television and produced the show's web presence which is still one of the most extensive works of "e-fiction" ever presented on the Internet. Gregg has directed a number of award-winning regional and national television commercials and his first (and only, so far) feature film as director, Say Yes Quickly, played in film festivals nationwide in 2005 and won Best Feature at the IndieMemphis festival. In addition to his film work, he is one of the Executive Creative Directors at Campfire, one of the ad industry’s leaders in interactive and online advertising. His most recent long-form film projects were Altered, a sci-fi/horror film which was released by Rogue Pictures and Seventh Moon, a supernatural thriller starring Amy Smart that will be released by Lionsgate in October. Gregg lives in New York City with his wife, Adrian, and their two children.