Jury
Anadil Hossain
Anadil Hossain is co-founder of Dillywood Inc, a media production company producing award winning films with a global lens across a broad range of genres and topics. Dillywood’s work encompasses feature films, documentaries, multi-media social impact projects in partnership with major film studios, global institutions, NGOs and foundations. These projects have addressed climate change, human trafficking, arms trade, worker’s rights and gender equality, and have been used for advocacy, policy and activism campaigns globally.
Lukasz Konopa
Lukasz has a Master's Degree from the UK's National Film and Television School (NFTS). His documentaries have played at festivals, such as Hot Docs, Camerimage, Visions du Reel and SXSW. His short After won the CILECT Best Documentary Film award, which is chosen by the association of the world’s major film and television schools. His first full-length documentary, Theatre of Violence, premiered at CPH DOX in 2023 and won VIKTOR Award for Best Documentary (DOK.fest Munich), Grand Prix (Movies That Matter), Young Voice Award (Inconvenient Films). The film has a cinema distribution in the UK.
Don Edkins
Don Edkins is a South African documentary filmmaker and producer based in Cape Town who has produced documentary film projects that have been broadcast around the world, such as Steps for the Future, Why Democracy? and Why Poverty?, and most recently Generation Africa, with 25 films from 16 countries across Africa on the theme of migration and youth opportunities He is Executive Producer of AfriDocs, a free-to-view VOD platform and broadcast strand across Africa for creative documentary films.