Sheffield DocFest unveiled May 24 the fifteen jury members who will assess new works across the International Competition, First Feature Competition, Short Film Competition, The Tim Hetherington Award and International Alternate Realities Competition sections.
The 31st Sheffield DocFest runs from Wednesday 12 – Monday 17 June.
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)
- Kristine Barford (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)
MASTERCLASSES
The festival additionally announced Masterclasses of particular relevance to UK and international documentary. These are:
- Channel 4 Masterclass: The Making of Russell Brand: In Plain Sight In this panel session the commissioning editors and programme-makers will give a unique behind the scenes insight into making one of the most significant investigative documentaries of recent times.
- ITV Masterclass: Lifting the lid on Audiences…(and who’s watching what) Neil Mortensen (Director of ITV Insights Group) will show how ITV uses audience insight in the creative process. He will also reveal the numbers that matter. Where are the hits across the TV landscape and how are the SVOD platforms performing?
WALTER MURCH IN CONVERSATION
Guests will also be able to join Academy Award™ winning film sound editor Walter Murch as he discusses the art of cutting film and the extraordinary body of films he has worked on – including Apocalypse Now, The English Patient and The Godfather Part II & The Godfather Part III.
Murch will talk about his work on the film Her Name Was Moviola (which has its world premiere at this year’s festival), and discuss the way film editing has changed across the decades.
