MAGA Jurors 2008

Jurors to be announced.

MAGA Jurors 2007

Steve Bell

Steve Bell has been the owner and creative director of the full-service advertising agency Smart Creative Media for the past 13 years. He's won over 100 advertising awards on behalf of his clients. He's the past president of the Central Georgia Advertising Federation, Macon Heritage Foundation and former Chairman of the Macon Film and Music Commission. He serves on the board of the Hay House, Macon DownTown Council, Ocmulgee National Monument Association, Alex II Magnet School-School Council, Wesley Glen Advisory Council, is an honorary trustee of Historic Macon and does development work for the Georgia Children's Museum. He's the Vice Chair of Crisis Line and Safe House of Central Georgia, Development Chair for Non-Profits for United Way of Central
Georgia and judge for the C-47: The Georgia Short Film Showcase.

Craig Coleman

Craig Coleman is a visual artist and teacher who works with video, film and multimedia. He has a BFA degree from Florida State University and an M.F.A. degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

For the past ten years, he has worked in academia teaching a wide range of media including kinetic sculpture, graphic design, installation, digital imaging, video, and photography. Craig has taught at many colleges and Universities including the University of Colorado at Denver, Metropolitan State College of Denver, University of Denver, Colorado Institute of Art, and The University of Florida. Currently he is an Assistant Professor of Art at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia.

Robert Schaller

Robert Schaller is the Director and head of Production for Ontos Media, a documentary film production company dedicated to making films about social justice. His diverse talents and interests draw on a wealth of experiences and training in the fields of film, music, live performance, the Humanities, the Sciences, and mountian climbing. Robert received formal academic training in Music and Filmmaking at the University of Colorado, where he received an MFA under the tutelage of experimental filmmaking legends Stan Brakhage and Phil Solomon.  He has taught at numerous academic institutions in the US, including the University of Colorado, the San Francisco Art Institute, the San Francisco Film Arts Foundation, and the Toussaint L'Ouverture School of Arts and Social Justice in South Florida, as well as workshops at the University of San Francisco, the University of Florida, Pitzer College, and the Northwest Film Forum in Seattle.  His experimental work is represented by Canyon Cinema, and has played all over the world and won numerous awards.