Unlike Cannes, Venice and many other leading festivals, Toronto does not appoint an international jury to sift through an official selection of films and garland those it finds most worthy.
He is also Co-director/writer/producer of "An Unreasonable Man" a documentary about the career of Ralph Nader, an official selection of the Sundance Film Festival and on the Motion Picture Academy Award "shortlist.
In a new film, Chasing Ice, which was an official selection at Sundance last year, now makes its public debut on November 9th in New York City, Jim's quest to document the physical imagery of climate change is brought to life.
Child of God was selected in official competition at the 70th Venice Film Festival, an official selection to the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival and an official selection to the prestigious 51st New York Film Festival.
Directed by Stephen Maing, High Tech, Low Life was in part funded by a Kickstarter campaign publicized on The Huffington Post and was an official selection of the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival.
"Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry" made its debut at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, where it won a Special Jury Prize for Spirit of Defiance, and was also presented as an official selection in the Berlinale at the Berlin Film Festival.
Secret Agent Problems was an official selection at several film festivals where it was an audience favourite with extra cinema screenings added.
The show currently on view at Locust Projects in Miami builds on ideas from a short film Mayer made with longtime collaborator Lucas Leyva called #PostModem, which was an official selection at Sundance this year.
Like "Cosmos," it was also an official selection at Cannes, in 1998.
Alice Wu's film, her first, was an official selection at Sundance this year.
