24/05/2024
Sheffield DocFest just announced the jury members for their upcoming edition, with our very own Liselot Verbrugge as part of their International First Feature Competiton jury! 🎉
We’re thrilled to announce the jury members for the five competition strands at this year’s festival! 🤩
The jury includes renowned filmmakers Andy Mundy-Castle, Havana Marking and Toni Kamau.
Find out more at: https://www.sheffdocfest.com/announcing-our-2024-jury-members
The full list of 2024 jury members is below:
🏆International Competition
Heather Haynes (Hot Docs, Director of Festival Programming)
Mohamed Saïd Ouma (DocA-Documentary Africa Executive Director)
Havana Marking (Award-winning filmmaker)
🏆International First Feature Competition
Liselot Verbugge (CEO, Film Harbour)
Kirstine Barfod(Nordland Pictures founder)
Diego Pino Anguita (Executive Director of the Chilean Documentary Corporation)
🏆International Short Film Competition
Andy Mundy-Castle (Founder of Doc Hearts)
Lindsay Poulton (Head of Documentaries at The Guardian)
Moustapha Sawadogo (Head of the Yennenga Workshops at the Pan-African Film Festival of Ouagadougou – FESPACO)
🏆The Tim Hetherington Award
Joan Parsons (Head of Culture and Arts for Queen’s University Belfast)
Toni Kamau (Award-winning producer and founder of the Kenyan based “We Are Not the Machine”)
Mariia Tsypiashchuk (Ukrainian attorney-at-law, partnerships manager of the Ukraine War Archive)
🏆The International Alternate Realities Competition
Abby Sun (IDA's Director of Artist Programs)
John O’Shea (Creative Director of the National Videogame Museum)
Zinha Morgan-Bennett (Director and Programmer)