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SunChild 10th IEF Juries

Ehsan Jannati
Ehsan Jannati

Film Category: Educational Films

  • Biography
    Ehsan Jannati is a wildlife photographer, conservationist, environmentalist, birdwatcher, travel blogger. He is a professional nature photographer with more than 15 years of experience. He has received several awards from Iran nature photography festival, worked as a zoologist for various mammal conservation and research programmes in Iran. He is the director of 30 short films and videos.
Arsine Khanjyan
Arsine Khanjyan

Film Category: Educational Films

  • Biography
    Arsinée Khanjian is an Armenian-Lebanese-Canadian actress and producer. In addition to her independent work and stage roles, she is regularly cast by her husband, Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan, in his films. Khanjian was a jury member for the Cinéfoundation and Short Films sections at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. Khanjian is a civil rights activist and was briefly detained in Armenia in 2016 while protesting human rights abuses.
Erica Girotto
Erica Girotto

Film Category: Educational Films

  • Biography
    Erica works at the National Museum of Cinema of Turin – Italy at the Educational Department, organizing activities and educational programmes, film events, screenings for schools and film literacy projects. She previously worked at CinemAmbiente - Environmental Film Festival. She also cooperated with various cultural organizations, film clubs and institutions in Italy, UK and Ireland for the organization of film retrospective and cinema events.
Holly Jonas
Holly Jonas

Film Category: Environmental Issues

  • Biography
    Holly met ICCA Consortium co-founders Grazia Borrini-Feyerabend, Taghi Farvar and Ashish Kothari in 2008 and was immediately hooked on ICCAs–territories of life (for life!). She is passionate about social and environmental justice and has a lifelong dedication to supporting these movements. After volunteering and working with the ICCA Consortium for more than 10 years, she now serves as the Global Coordinator, having taken up the baton from Grazia in January 2020․ She volunteers with the Borneo Eco Film Festival and has co-authored and edited publications on issues related to territories of life, human rights, environmental law, nature conservation and participatory processes.
Roberto Pedraza Ruiz
Roberto Pedraza Ruiz

Film Category: Environmental Issues

  • Biography
    Growing up in the remote mountains of Sierra Gorda, Mexico, Roberto Pedraza Ruiz developed a serious case of biophilia. A term coined by biologist Edward O. Wilson, biophilia -- meaning "love of life" -- describes the human need to connect with nature. Pedraza Ruiz -- now a conservationist and photographer -- moved from the bustling central Mexican city of Queretaro to Sierra Gorda, in 1984, when he was nine years old.
Diana Martirosyan
Diana Martirosyan

Film Category: Environmental Issues

  • Biography
    Diana Martirosyan is a film critic and cultural journalist, born, raised in and based in Yerevan. Diana used to work at TV and radio stations, broadcasting cinematic news and interviews. Since 2007 she has been involved in various cultural, urban and cinema events, festivals and projects. Works for “Golden Apricot“ Yerevan International Film Festival and “ReAnimania“ International Animation Film & Comics Art Festival of Yerevan. Was a FIPRESCI jury member at “Molodist'' (Kyiv), Torino and Odessa International Film Festivals.
Fathollah Amiri
Fathollah Amiri

Film Category: Wildlife Preservation

  • Biography
    Member of the Iranian Documentary Filmmakers Association, CEO, Wildlife Pictures Institute, www.wildlifepictures.ir, Member of the Iranian Documentary Producers Association, Member of the Environment and Media Council of the Islamic Republic broadcasting of Iran (IRIB), Member of the planning council for making documentaries of provincial centers
Bibiana Sucre
Bibiana Sucre

Film Category: Wildlife Preservation

  • Biography
    Bibiana Sucre is the Executive Director of the IUCN Species Survival Commission Chair’s Office, and of Provita, a Venezuelan IUCN Member NGO. She is a Venezuelan biologist with graduate studies in ecology and a masters on public management. Her expertise combines technical areas in research and recovery of threatened species and ecosystems, engagement of local communities, and environmental education; as well as management areas, especially on strategic planning, coordination of multidisciplinary and multicultural teams, and internal and external communications.
Isabelle Lackman
Isabelle Lackman

Film Category: Wildlife Preservation

  • Biography
    Isabelle Lackman is the co-founder and director of Hutan, a grassroots wildlife research and conservation NGO established since 1998 in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo. For the past 23 years, Hutan has been working to develop innovative solutions for biodiversity conservation and for a more peaceful coexistence between wildlife and people.
Boris Mitic
Boris Mitic

Film Category: Wildfire Prevention

  • Biography
    Boris Mitić is a documentary filmmaker, producer and writer from Serbia. He was born in 1977 in Leskovac, Serbia and currently lives in Zagreb, Croatia. He worked for some of the most prominent media for several years before deciding to pursue documentary filmmaking. His four documentaries (In Praise of Nothing; Goodbye, How are you?; Unmik Titanik; and Pretty Dyana) have screened at over 200 festivals, received 25 awards and aired at 20 international TV stations.
Roger Allen
Roger Allen

Film Category: Wildfire Prevention

  • Biography
    Roger Allen has been a photographer for 44 years.He began to travel on assignments abroad and worked on major events in the UK, after a year at Today he was offered a job on The Daily Mirror – one of the biggest newspapers in Europe with a circulation of 4.5 million a day. His main passion now is highlighting the plight of animals around the world with animal welfare stories mainly for the Daily Mail and Mail-on-line.
Vahan Zanoyan
Vahan Zanoyan

Film Category: Wildfire Prevention

  • Biography
    Vahan Zanoyan is a global energy expert, writer, traveller, retired executive, and anti-trafficking advocate. Zanoyan has served as global energy consultant to numerous international and national oil companies, banks, and other private and public organizations throughout the United States, Europe, the Middle East, the Far East and Latin America. He has published two volumes of poetry in Armenian (Վերադարձ in 2010 and Եզրէն Դուրս in 2011), and four novels in English.

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