Marseille Web Fest, Which Celebrates The Year’s Best Digital Series, Names 8-Person Jury

The Marseille Web Fest, a five-year-old international digital film festival to be held next month in France’s second largest city, has announced the eight-person jury that will preside over the 25 series slated to be screened at this year’s event.

The jury will include: international bestselling author C.J Daugherty, the actress Elodie Varlet of French soap opera Plus Belle La Vie, novelist and screenwriter Dan Franck, Ryme Wehbi of the French production company White Panama Films, Australian communications and media studies professor Sue Turnbull, Fullscreen exec Adam Dunlap, and Dailymotion’s director of entertainment and original content Alba Gautier.

Gilles Galud, the co-founder of production companies Gédeon and La Parisienne D’Images and the current CEO of Studio+, will act as the president of this year’s jury. Awards will be given out for best independent series, best director, best screenplay, best actor, best actress, best editing, and best music, as well as the festival’s top Grand Jury Prize.

“The festival highlights the diversity of creation and wishes above all to be an incubator of new talent and to serve as a springboard to creativity,” according to a statement.

The official selection of series set to be screened includes entries from the U.S., Belgium, Spain, Argentina, Canada, France, Norway, Korea, Nepal, England, and India. New Form Digital’s The Fourth Door — a horror series starring Joey Graceffa and created alongside BlackBoxTV, which originally premiered on Verizon‘s go90 platform — will be in contention this year, as will the bizarre and enticing Made In Mosjøen and sci-fi thriller Anamnesis.