Documentary Film Jury

Katrina Deaton is a filmmaker, song writer, poet and motivational speaker in her native Philadelphia. Her film, Underneath, which premiered in the festival in 2007, sold out and continues to this day to receive great acclaim as well as strong audience response around the country and aboard. She has frequently worked on the sets of numerous independent films for other filmmakers in the region. Currently, she is working on her next feature film, Kathy’s Daughter.

Vince Austin-Cole has been a longtime supporter and volunteer for QFest. As a true cinephile, he made it his personal goal to view more than 30 films each year at previous film festivals. His experience as a juror has broadened his appreciation of the talents, skills and efforts of independent filmmakers everywhere in all genres. He will serve for the fist time as a documentary juror.

Short Film Jury

Jeff Darcy became a film buff in his freshman year at Brown University where he soon joined the school’s film society serving as its projectionist. At the nearby Rhode Island School of Design, he took his first film classes. As a psychotherapist, he recently spearheaded the film discussion group for the PA Society for Clinical Social Work where therapists receive continuing education credit for discussing and analyzing films from a psychological perspective.

Jhett Bond is a Philadelphia native who works as a parttime videographer and a part-time building manager. She continues her interest in the intersections between health, healing and the vibrations of sound and light in film. She has refined the elements of a great film in her mind to include: love and lovingness, fear that is overcome, poetry of motion, words and expression, a sense of place and a renewal of spirit.