Crickett Rumley

Presenter

Crickett Rumley received her MFA in Film at Columbia University and is the founder and senior director of the Film Festival Department at the New York Film Academy in Los Angeles. With diversity, equity, and inclusion at the center of her work, she develops educational programs and festival strategy for a diverse student body. She has guided filmmakers to official selections at such esteemed festivals as Sundance, Tribeca, Slamdance, Austin, Hollyshorts, Rotterdam, Bronzelens, and Palm Springs Shortfest, to nomination and/or shortlisting for the BAFTA Student Film Awards, the Student Academy Awards, and the College Television Awards. A regular juror for the Forum on Life, Culture, and Society’s International Short Film Competition, she also works with the Tallgrass Film Festival, first as a juror in 2021 Tallgrass and now as their educational panels director and moderator. She is thrilled to host the Winter Film Awards Education Day this year at NYFA New York. Welcome, Filmmakers!

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