Robot Film Festival Team

Recent Partners

Past Contributors

• Festival Illustrations: Valerie Schoman of VHSart and Nickelodeon

• Botsker Award Designer: Shawn Sims of CMU Computational Design Lab

• Art Curators: Natalie Be’er & Lily Szajnberg of NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program

• 2011 Sponsor: Science House

• 2011 Co-Producers: Kevin Laibson & Suzan Eraslan of Magic Futurebox

• 2011 & 2012 Hosts: 3LD Art & Technology Center

• 2012 Botsker 3D printing sponsors: MakerBot

• 2013 Botsker 3D printing sponsors: Moddler

• 2013 Projection Sponsor: Nationwide

• 2013 Media Sponsor: BoingBoing

• 2013 Cocktail & Gallery Sponsor: Bossa Nova Robotics

• 2013 Headline screening curator: Stephen Parr of Oddball Films

• 2013 & 2014 Festival Hosts & Co-Producers: Bot & Dolly

• 2014 Botsker Award Ceremony Sponsor: KUKA

• 2014 Botsker Printer: Shapeways

• 2015 Co-Producer: Heather Mallak of Remake Learning/Digital Salad

• 2015 Sponsor: Assemble

• 2015 Sponsor: BirdBrain Technologies

• 2015 Sponsor: Schell Games

• 2015 Sponsor: Healthy Together

• 2015 Sponsor: Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science

• 2015 Sponsor: Pittsburgh Technology Council 

• 2015 Sponsor: Sprout Fund

Past Jury Members

• Annie Leahy: Executive Producer of Poptech, formerly at Sundance

• Andrew McGregor: Founder of Tiziano Project and the Graphation Film Festival

• Celeste Biever: Physical Sciences News Editor at New Scientist Magazine

• Jer Thorp: Data Visualization guru at BLPRNT, Artist in Residence at NYTimes R & D

• Ken Perlin: Director of the Games for Learning Institute at NYU

• Kenyatta Cheese: Eyebeam Advisory Board, formerly Rocketboom

• Reid Simmons: Robotics Research Professor at Carnegie Mellon University

• Simone Davalos: co-founder of RoboGames, guest blogger at Laughing Squid

• Ventura Castro: Graphics Producer at NBC Artworks, Founder of F5 Festival 

• Evan Ackerman: Senior Writer at IEEE Spectrum