The 2025 Onion City Film Festival Jury

Amanda Gutiérrez (she/her, b. 1978, Mexico City) explores the experience of political listening and gender studies by bringing into focus soundwalking practices. Trained and graduated initially as a stage designer from The National School of Theater, Gutiérrez uses a range of digital media tools to investigate everyday life aural agencies and collective identities. Approaching these questions from aural perspectives continues to be of particular interest to Gutiérrez, who completed her MFA in Media and Performance Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is currently elaborating on the academic dimension of her work as a Ph.D. candidate in Arts and Humanities at Concordia University in the Arts and Humanities Doctoral program. Her experience as an artist has been shown internationally in art residencies such as FACT, Liverpool in the UK, ZKM in Germany, TAV in Taiwan, Bolit Art Center in Spain, and her sound artwork has been exhibited internationally in venues such as The Liverpool Biennale in 2012, Harvestworks in NYC, SBC Gallery, Undefined Radio in Montreal, Errant Bodies Studio Press in Berlin. Her sound walks have been featured in POP Montreal, City of Women Festival in Ljubljana, To)POT festival, ENSEMS Music Festival in Valencia.

Stephanie Barber (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist whose work has been focused on an expanded poetics resulting in the creation of films, books, installations and songs. This work sits between cinema and literature, science and spirituality, philosophy and comedy and manifests as a corpus that moves beyond allegiance to media and works hard at defying classification. Her films and videos are distributed by Video Data Bank and Canyon Cinema. Collections of her experimental writing can be found at Publishing Genius Press these here separated and Night Moves; Ctrl +P Status Update Vol. 1 and 53rd State Press Trial in the Woods.

Drew Durepos (he/him) is a Chicago-based filmmaker and educator. His films have screened at festivals such as London Short Film Festival, Maryland Film Festival, Athens International Film & Video Festival, Drunken Film Fest Oakland, Washington DC International Film Festival, FIDBA International Documentary Film Festival (Buenos Aires), and Onion City Experimental Film Festival (Chicago). In 2018, he received his MFA in Cinematic Arts from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. He teaches at Loyola University Chicago and DePaul University and is a member of the Nightingale Projects programming collective.