CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICERS, JUDGES
Janice & Jeanette Wells-Lipton
Twin sisters and CO-Founders of LA Bizarre Film Festival.
Both Alumni of the renowned California Institute of The Arts with a BFA, in Film Video, 2009. Independent filmmakers, writers, and directors. Professional artists who paint in oil on canvas. We use our visionary creative talent to find new forms of expression.
PRESIDENT, LEGAL, JUDGE
Kenneth M. Lipton, Attorney At Law
Vice President and CO-Founder of LA Bizarre Film Festival. Entertainment and Personal Injury Attorney at Law. Graduate from UC Santa Barbara and UC Santa Cruz Law School, with a Doctoral Degree of Law.
Artist, Film Producer and Entertainment lawyer. Mr. Lipton represents and protects the creatives. Such as film, television, new media, theater, publishing and music. He does drafting contracts, negotiation, mediation, litigation or arbitration.
HEAD OF SCREENPLAY DEPARTMENT, JUDGE
Bessy Adut
Bessy Adut is an award winning film director/writer/producer who lives in Los Angeles. She holds an MFA in Film Directing from CalArts as a Fulbright Grantee and a BA in Film and Television from Istanbul Bilgi University. She is also a UCLA Professional Screenwriting Program alumna. Bessy’s latest short film “Escape Room” has won 11 awards and has been featured in several Oscar qualifying international film festivals. Bessy Adut is also the founder of Queen B. Film Hive, LLC in 2015. Bessy has worked as a Director/Host in TRT World documentaries such as “Inside the Lens” and “Mysteries of Cinema” and has worked as a Production Coordinator and Director’s Assistant for Academy Award winner Bryan Fogel’s “Icarus II” and “The Dissident”. Currently she works on a documentary about the artist Post Malone. For the past two years Bessy has been developing her feature documentary “Searching For God In Antarctica” with a docu-series to follow.