Evaluation Juries

The CMF routinely employs external experts to aid in decision-making for selective programs through an evaluation-based jury process. To provide an external perspective on the application materials submitted, the juries are comprised of working industry professionals who are experts in their field or genre. You can use the filters below to review who has served as a jury member in the past, and on which juries.

Evaluation Process

Following an initial review for eligibility conducted by internal staff, jury members are tasked with scoring each project against a set evaluation criteria. Each program has its own evaluation grid, specific to the needs and objectives of that program, but generally they include:

experience of the production or creative teams and their capacity to deliver;
an assessment of the creative content and/or innovation in the space;
narrative positioning statement;
business materials, including viability of the project and financial stability; and
a distribution and/or marketing strategy.

The highest scoring projects are compared against the available funding allocation for the program to determine the recipients for that round of funding.

If you wish to be considered to serve on a jury, please contact [email protected]. Prospective jurors are strongly encouraged to create a PERSONA-ID profile. The CMF uses self-identification information from PERSONA-ID to help select a diverse group that is reflective of the community served by the program. By providing your self-identification information to the CMF, you are deemed to consent to its use for such purposes, subject to the terms of the CMF’s Privacy Policy.

Jamie-Lee Reardon

Foleyet, Canada

Jamie-Lee Reardon (Ojibwe/Irish) is a member of Flying Post First Nations in treaty 9. JL is the Institute Manager at imagineNATIVE, where she is committed to supporting the professional development of Indigenous Creatives. JL is a multi-disciplinary undisciplined artist and storyteller who creates from a place of love for community, culture, family, and self.

Juries

Fiscal 2024 - 2025: Indigenous
Fiscal 2023 - 2024: Indigenous
Fiscal 2022 - 2023: Indigenous - Round 1

Jessica Murwin

Montréal, Canada

Jess Murwin is a nonbinary Indigenous (Mi'kmaq, Scottish and Welsh) filmmaker, curator and educator based in Montreal, Quebec They received formal artistic training from Notre Dame de la Tilloye (France) and the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (Canada), as well as informal training on various sets, at artist centres and in workshops in Canada and Europe. Their work is largely community-based and draws on genre and storytelling traditions to imagine social change.

As a programmer, they have worked for the Atlantic International Film Festival, the Toronto International Film Festival, and Rencontres Internationales du Documentaire à Montréal, among others. Their focus in presenting films and media artworks has always been to champion stories by 2SLGBTQ+, and Indigenous artists. They see this work as a critical way of reclaiming narrative spaces.

Juries

Fiscal 2023 - 2024: Early-Stage Development (English)
Fiscal 2023 - 2024: Indigenous
Fiscal 2022 - 2023: Indigenous - Round 1