This semester, Distinguished Teacher Sharon Badal juried the Rhode Island Film Festival, The $50,000 Louisiana Film Prize, the Bend Film Festival, and the Pittsburgh Shorts Film Festival. Additionally, she currently serves as a programmer for the Big Sky Documentary Festival.
Badal has been a jury member, presenter, or panelist for many film festivals and organizations including the Regional Student Academy Awards, Alcine FF Madrid Spain, Annapolis FF, BFI London FF, The British Council, Calgary FF, DOC NYC, Cork, Dublin and Galway FFs Ireland, Hawaii International FF, Heartland Indy Shorts FF, Holly Shorts FF Los Angeles, Hot Springs Documentary FF, IFP Produced By Conference: Screen Forward NY, Keynote Speaker for Orlando FF, New Hampshire FF, New Orleans FF, Nordisk Panorama Iceland, Norway, Finland and Sweden, Palm Springs ShortsFest, SAG-INDIE, Savannah FF, Sundance ShortsLab, CFC Worldwide, ImagineNative and TIFF in Toronto Canada and Vienna Shorts in Austria.