Brock Cravy
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER &
FESTIVAL DIRECTOR
Brock Cravy is an award-winning screenwriter, filmmaker, and creative entrepreneur whose career has moved between entertainment, politics, and education. His work has streamed on Amazon, he has been featured as an artist at the Dallas Museum of Art, and he was named LGBTQ Filmmaker of the Year by the Austin Revolution Film Festival. Beginning his career on film sets as a teenager, Cravy has spent more than three decades exploring the ways technology changes how stories are created, produced, and experienced.
Today, Cravy is the founder and Festival Director of Neuroscope Films, a Southern Colorado-based film organization dedicated to the intersection of art, storytelling, and technology. Through international film exhibitions, emerging-media showcases, education, and collaboration with students, artists, filmmakers, and technologists, Neuroscope is designed to champion work that takes creative risks and asks what comes next. Based in Trinidad, Colorado, Cravy sees Neuroscope as both a global platform for innovative filmmaking and a local investment in the growing creative energy of Southern Colorado.
Our Campus Jurors.
At Neuroscope Films, every selection and award is guided by a jury that reflects the intersection of art, storytelling, and technology. Our jurors bring together some of Southern Colorado’s top creative and technical minds alongside high-achieving students, giving each film a thoughtful, forward-looking evaluation from the people shaping what comes next.
Professor
Tom Nordgren
Tom brings a storyteller’s eye to Trinidad State College, where he teaches creative writing and screenwriting. He previously taught at the University of Houston and the University of Wisconsin.
Technologist
Natasha Upchurch
Natasha is the creator of Open Oracle, an AI that transforms scientific research into accessible, interactive conversations exploring the intersection of technology and human expression.
Robotics
Hugh McCannster
With 35 years in IT, coding, and automation, Hugh has taught and built robotic systems at Texas A&M and in Colorado through Emergent Campus and Trinidad State College.