These judges will view all fiction and nonfiction films addressing human and civil rights, war and peace, rule of law, and the environment.
Aaryan Salman Zorabian
Director General, Global Citizenship Foundation
Berlin, Germany
Senior Child Protection Adviser and member of the human security team at NATO
Brussels, Belgium
Alvin Tofler Munyasia
Advocacy and Communications Specialist for the HORN of Africa and Haiti, Action Against Hunger NGO
Nairobi County, Kenya
Andrea Lee Esser
Senior Gender Advisor, Executive Office of the UN Secretary General -
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Head of Field Office @ UN
Kabul, Afghanistan
Anna Wirth-Hogan
Former Senior Program Officer World Affairs Council of N. California; Dev'l & Outreach, Human Rights Watch
Auckland, New Zealand
Anees Ahmed
Chief of Rule of Law & Security Sector Reform
UN Mission in South Sudan
Christina Kwauk
Gender, education, and climate change specialist, Unbounded Associates; Formerly with Brookings Institution
Washington DC, USA
Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler
Senior Director, Counter Extremism Project NYC, USA & Berlin, Germany
New York City, New York, USA
Dr. Muhammad Tahir Tabassum
President, Institute of Peace and Development INSPAD
Islāmābād, Pakistan
Eliza Byard
Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Task Force, National Women's Soccer League (NWSL)
New York City, New York, USA
Hanan Kaoud
Gender Specialist and Researcher, UNESCO
Ramallah, West Bank, Palestine
Hani Almadhoun
Senior Director of Philanthropy at UNRWA USA
Washington DC, USA
Heather Barr
Deputy Women's Rights Director, Human Rights Watch
New York City, New York, USA
Ian Phillips
Director, News & Media Division, United Nations
New York City, New York, USA
Jonathan Brooker
Consultant, United Nations for EU Civil Protection & Humanitarian Aid Operations
Thénac, France
International Partner, World Business Angels Investment Forum (WBAF)
New York City, New York, USA
Kotaro Takeda
Special Representative on Humanitarian Affairs (SRHA) at United Nations
Tokyo, Japan
Lila Happy
Law Faculty, University of Windsor (with signficant human rights advocacy experience)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Minar Pimple
Former Sr. Director Amnesty International and Former Regional Director UN Millennium Campaign
London, England, UK
Morse Caoagas Flores
Human Rights Officer at United Nations, OHCHR
Geneva, Switzerland
Chief of MENA Section. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
Founex, Vaud, Switzerland
Social Policy Officer at UNICEF
Damascus, Syria
Coordinator for Italy, UNICEF
Rome, Italy
Nicola Paccamiccio
UN Advocacy Coordinator - Human Rights Watch
Geneva, Switzerland
Dr. Noreen Akram Rathore
Researcher, UNHCR at UN Refugee Agency
Trento, Italy
Nour Laswi, MA, DPro, FMD
Program Manager, Alfanar Venture Philanthropy, EU & Danish Refugee Partnership
Amman, Jordan
Director of Communications at Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN); Senior Iran Analyst; Formerly at Center for Human Rights in Iran
Washington DC, USA
Rasha Musleh
Head of the Crisis Intervention Unit at UNRWA; Research Fellow Harvard Carr Center for Human Rights Policy
Cambridge, MA, USA
Raphael Obonyo
Contributor at United Nations Africa Renewal; Policy Analyst, Duke University Sanford School of Public Policy
Kenya
Rita Raymon
Co-Founder of The Guardian Project, Founder & Curator- "Bucket: re-imagining your travel"
Kenya
Ronald Kayanja
Director at United Nations
Abuja, Nigeria
Sahar Othman
Executive Director at The Palestinian Charity for Youth Economic Empowerment
West Bank, Palestine
Human Rights & Social Impact Services at KPMG Australia (worked w/ UN Women - Liberia)
Sydney, Australia
Sayem Mehmood
Education Specialist, UNICEF
New Delhi, India
Shenilla Mohamed
Executive Director, Amnesty International South Africa
Johannesburg, South Africa
Tatsuji Shinohara
Preparedness Officer, International Organisation for Migration, United Nation
Japan
Tigere Chagutah, PhD.
Regional Director - East and Southern Africa at Amnesty International
Johannesburg & Nairobi
Vincenzo Porpiglia
Emergency Head of Mission in UKRAINE, Doctors Without Borders (2023-24)
Scilla, Calabria, Italy
Virginia Pittaro
Director of Partnerships at SIMA Studios
Los Angeles, California USA
Yared Abera Deme
Climate Diplomacy Associate, World Resources Institute
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Zama Neff
Dir. of Human Rights Watch's Children's Rights Division
New York, New York, USA