She holds an MA in documentary filmmaking from Royal Holloway, University of London as well as an MA in journalism from Georgian Institute of Public Affairs. Her film Taming the Garden premiered at Sundance Film Festival’s World Cinema Documentary Competition and
Berlinale Forum and was nominated for the European Film Awards. Her previous film The Dazzling Light of Sunset was awarded the Main Prize at Visions du Réel’s Regard Neuf Competition.
PRODUCER | FINLAND
IIKKA VEHKALAHTI
A former Commissioning Editor of the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle, he has been involved in the creation of worldwide series Steps For The Future, Why Democracy, Dare To Dream and Generation Africa. Iikka Vehkalahti is now running his own companies IV Films and RoughCutService; RCS has given on‑line support to more than 150 documentaries from nearly 50 countries. Machines, Invisible Demons and Raghu Rai which were supported byRoughCutService, have premiered at Cannes, IDFA and Sundance festivals.
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AT NORDISK PANORAMA | SWEDEN
ANITA REHER
She is the Executive Director of Nordisk Panorama, the largest Nordic doc & shorts festival and industry platform. Anita Reher was Executive Director of The Flaherty in New York
from 2012‑2018. Prior she co‑founded the European Documentary Network (EDN) and co‑organised 50+ international workshops. Anita has served on juries for Guangzhou,
Guadalajara, DocsBarcelona, CPH:DOX, DokFest Munich… She is passionate about diversity and pushing the boundaries of storytelling.
Grand Prix for French Documentary Jury
FILMMAKER | FRANCE
ZOUHAIR CHEBBALE
Author and documentaries’ filmmaker, he is trying to tell common stories between France and Morocco, from both sides of the Mediterranean. C’est mieux là-bas, Un piranha sous
la capuche, Migrants mineurs les chemins de l’espoir, are films about social issues linked to his citizen commitment. Zouhair Chebbale is a Talents des Cités and Marianne de la diversité award winner, and the former President of the Société des auteurs de films de la région Grand Est (la Safire).
FILMMAKER | FRANCE
RUTH ZYLBERMAN
Born in Paris in 1971, Ruth Zylberman is a documentary filmmaker and writer. Among her last films: The Trial-Prague 1952 (2021), One Last Summer (2019), The Neigbours — 209 rue Saint-Maur (2017). She also wrote the novel The Department of Missing Persons (Christian Bourgois, 2015) and the literary essay 209 rue Saint-Maur (Seuil/Arte Éditions, 2020). Recently, she wrote for the radio channel France Culture a 4‑part series about Franz Kafka and women (2022).
HEAD OF CINEMA AT BOZAR | BELGIUM
JULIETTE DURET
Juliette Duret began her career in the film industry in 1992 as Coordinator of Wallonie Bruxelles Images and developed the structure for 14 years. In 2006, she joined the Palais des Beaux‑Arts / BOZAR in Brussels to develop the film department, first as coordinator and programmer, then as part of the management team since 2013.
Grand Prix for Musical Documentary Jury
PRODUCER | LATVIA
ULDIS CEKULIS
Uldis Cekulis created VFS FILMS, an independent production company 25 years ago, and has worked on near 50 creative documentaries both as a producer and sometimes as a cameraman. Most of his films have received prestigious awards, at Shanghai IFF, Karlovy Vary IFF or Warsaw FF. His latest Latvian‑Italian coproduction The Rossellinis have premiered at the Venice IFF in 2020.
FILMMAKER | FRANCE
CHLOÉ PERLEMUTER
Filmmaker and writer specializing in music, making creative documentaries as well as recording live concerts, operas and dance performances for television and cinema — Le trio Wanderer, Casa da Musica, Une heure avec Tannhäuser / One upon a time with Tannhaüser,
Auditorium Parco della musica, Le lac des Cygnes / Swan Lake, Artistes femmes / Female Artists, À quatre ou rien / All for one…
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR AT RAVEL FESTIVAL | FRANCE
JEAN-FRANÇOIS HEISSER
Pianist, conductor, pedagogue, he develops a rich career as a soloist and guest conductor.
He is also the musical director of the Orchester de Chambre Nouvelle‑Aquitaine. President and artistic director of the Ravel Festival in the Basque Country, he is also in charge of the programming of the Musical Evenings of the Méjan in Arles and the Festival de l’Orangerie de Sceaux.
Grand Prix Documentaire Impact
FILMMAKER & HEAD OF INDUSTRY, IMPACT & OUTREACH AT DOCPOINT | FINLAND
SINI HORMIO
A filmmaker and impact producer from Helsinki, she is currently the Head of Industry, Impact and Outreach at DocPoint Helsinki Documentary Film Festival. Sini Hermio has developed a free tool for the documentary filmmakers called “The Impact Roadmap”, as part of her master’s degree thesis. She has worked in film and television since 2000. Her debut film The Kind Stranger, co‑directed by Anu Silfverberg, is premiering in 2023.
JOURNALIST & FILMMAKER | FRANCE
ALEXIS MARANT
A member of the CAPA agency for 20 years, he has directed more than 25 features, many of them devoted to investigation and often selected in festivals. He received in 2006 with Manon Loizeau the Albert Londres Prize and was nominated for the Emmy Awards in 2016. Today he directs the Yes Futur endowment fund, dedicated to the ecological and social transition and climate justice.
FILMMAKER | ISRAEL
RACHEL LEAH JONES
She is a critically‑acclaimed and award‑winning documentary filmmaker whose directing credits include 500 Dunam on the Moon (2002), Ashkenaz (2007), Gypsy Davy (2012), and Advocate (2019) —which won the 2021 Emmy® award for Best Documentary.
SMART Award Jury
PRODUCER | FRANCE
ALEXANDRE CORNU
Alexandre Cornu is a producer at Films du Tambour de Soie, where, along with his partner Muriel Sorbo, they produce documentaries for French and international channels. They were awarded the 2012 Prix du Producteur Français (Procirep). He also produces animated features, including Alain Ughetto’s No Dogs or Italians Allowed, which won two awards at 2022 Annecy
animation festival, and develops XR programmes (digital series and immersive experiences).
AUTHOR & SCREENWRITER | FRANCE
MARIE SELLIER
She has published about a hundred books, including many art books for young people and contributed to several films about artists. Today, she is interested in Augmented Reality. She is the author of the scenario of La petite danseuse, an application created by Gordon
(Musée d’Orsay/France TV/Lucid Realities). Officer of the Arts and Letters and Knight of the Legion of Honor, she has chaired the Société des Gens de Lettres and was a member of the Executive Board of the CNL.
AUTHOR & FILMMAKER | FRANCE
MATHILDE HIRSCH
She is the creator of The Lost Ones, series, broadcast on ARTE: detailing the incredible destinies of extraordinary people whose lives give insight into big, dramatic events in world history, thanks to archive images and electronic music. Mathilde Hirsch directed the short film Good Girl, the web‑serie Bonnes Ondes (France Television) and co‑wrote the radio drama podcast Varennes. She won the Simone veil Prize for a biography of Nina Simone.
Digital Storytelling Award SCAM Jury
DOCUMENTARY DIRECTOR & VIDEO MAKER | FRANCE
PASCAL GOBLOT
Pascal Goblot directs films about science, art, and history, as well as motion design video and immersive site‑specific installations. His work alternates between documentary and experimental audiovisual devices. Since 2021, Goblot has chaired LaScam commission for writing and emerging forms.
JOURNALIST | FRANCE
MARIANNE RIGAUX
Elle est membre de la Commission des écritures et des formes émergentes de la Scam depuis 2018. Elle a réalisé plusieurs webdocumentaires et films photographiques. Elle a co-fondé en 2012 l’association Diapéro, qui promeut les nouvelles écritures mêlant images fixes et montage sonore, à travers des projections et un prix annuel. Elle est par ailleurs journaliste indépendante et responsable pédagogique dans un organisme de formation continue.
FILMMAKER | FRANCE
CLAUDIA MARSCHAL
After studying cinema and foreign languages, Claudia Marschal graduated from the Lussas
documentary school. Her films are on the borderline between documentary and fiction, often mixing archival footage, live action sequences and staging. Her work has been broadcast on ARTE, France TV and in many international festivals.
Short Films Documentary Award Jury
FILMMAKER | FINLAND
TUIJA HALTTUNEN
She is a Finnish filmmaker who has worked in the film industry for over twenty years. Her latest feature documentary How to Kill a Cloud (2021) has been screened in twenty‑four countries and awarded in festivals such as Locarno and Ji. hlava IDFF. Her film Neighbours
was nominated for Prix Europa and the first feature length documentary State of Mind got a
state’s quality award. She has been described as an original filmmaker with a strong own voice.
FILMMAKER & PRODUCER | FRANCE
SÉBASTIEN TENDENG
Born in Senegal, he is a documentary author, director and producer. Sébastien Tendeng graduated from the University of Saint‑Louis (Senegal) with a Master’s degree in Sociolinguistics and a Master’s degree in Creative Documentary Production. He also obtained a Master’s degree in Documentary Production in Lussas (France). With his company Impluvium Productions, he has already supported several projects of young African directors. In 2015, he directed How I became Diola, his first feature documentary.
FILMMAKER | FRANCE
JEAN-GABRIEL PÉRIOT
Born in France in 1974, Jean‑Gabriel Périot directed several short and feature length movies and develops his own editing style with archive footage. Most of his works, documentaries as fiction, deal with violence and history. His films were shown in numerous festivals and honored by many awards.
New Talent Award Jury
FILMMAKER | ITALY
GIACOMO ABBRUZZESE
He was born in 1983 in Taranto, Italy. His films have been selected and awarded in numerous festivals (Palm Springs, Clermont‑Ferrand, Oberhausen, Viennale, Mar del Plata,
Tampere, etc.) and broadcast on Canal Plus, Arte, France TV, Sky, SVT. He is a former resident at the Cinéfondation of the Cannes Film Festival, at the Cité des Arts (Paris)
and at the Clermont‑Ferrand Film Festival, and was nominated for a César award in 2022 with his documentary America. His first feature Disco Boy will be released in 2023.
FILMMAKER | POLAND
MARTA PRUS
Marta Prus is a film director, lecturer at the Polish National Film School, and member of Polish Film Academy. Her films which include internationally awarded documentaries Vakha and Magomed (2010), Eighteenth Birthday (2012), Talk to Me (2015), Over the Limit (2017) and fiction Hot and Cold (2016) were screened at hundreds of film festivals. Over the Limit was
programmed at FIPADOC 2022 as part of Arte’s 30th Anniversary Carte blanche, a selection of films that have marked the channel’s documentary creation.
PROGRAMMER | UKRAINE
VICTORIA LESHCHENKO
Based in Berlin and Kyiv, she is a producer of cultural events, curator, and head of the programming team at Docudays UA International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival,
where she started in 2010. In 2022, she co‑founded with Yuliia Kovalenko the Sloïk film atelier —an independent union of Ukrainian film curators that gives space for their voices and promotes them internationally.
Mitrani Award Jury
SACEM
GILLES AMADO
After years of works for prime time television Gilles Amado started to record musicals and direct documentaries. In 2014, he was awarded Sacem’s Grand Prix de l’auteur‑réalisateur.
FRANCE TÉLÉVISIONS
VALÉRIE MATHIEU
Since 1998, she successively worked in the programming department of France 3 and at France 4 as advisor and then commissionning editor. She is now in charge of cultural and entertainment documentaries for France Télévisions.
SCAM
PIERRE CARLES
With a background as a socio‑cultural animator and after having studying journalism, he directed a dozen feature‑length documentaries and published articles in Le Monde diplomatique.
PROCIREP
FÉLICIE ROBLIN
Félicie Roblin started out at TF1 as a society journalist in Pascale Breugnot’s magazine unit, before moving on to France 3 where she worked on Christine Ockrent’s magazine, France Europe Express. After a spell at Morgane Production, she joined Zadig Productions in 2003. Now a partner, she produces documentaries on social issues, culture, and history, regularly selected and awarded at international festivals such as the Cannes Film Festival, IDFA, Hot Docs, etc.
CINÉ+ Award Jury
FILMMAKER | FRANCE
DANIELLE ARBID
Born in Beirut, she has been directing films since 1997. Her features Passion simple, Peur de rien, Un homme perdu, Dans les champs de batailles, have been selected in Cannes in the
official selection and in the Directors’ Fortnight, at the festivals of San Sebastian, Toronto, NY, Locarno, etc. She has been awarded, among others, the Golden Leopard Video at the Locarno Festival for the series Conversation de salon and the Silver Leopard for Seule avec la guerre.
FILMMAKER | FRANCE
CLAUDE VENTURA
Filmmaker, he began working in television before focusing on the documentary genre and for his films he was given LaScam Grand Prix Lifetime Achievement Award. He was author,
director and co‑producer of the magazine CINÉMA, CINÉMAS. Claude Ventura explores the elements of fiction which are present in the documentary: En Quête des sœurs Papin, Les Garçons de Rollin (Cinema Critics Award, best French documentary 2015, also the Audience Award Étoiles de LaScam).
Head of Ciné+
BRUNO DELOYE
Bruno Deloye has participated in documentary co-productions for 20 years. He began his career at Région Câble as deputy director for development, and in 1991 launched France’s first pay-per-view channel. In 1995, he joined MCM Euromusique for the creation and launch of the channel Muzzik before moving, in 2000, to Canal + Thématique. There, he worked as director of Cinéclassic (in France, Italy, and Spain, successively). Today, he directs the Ciné + Club and Ciné + Classic channels.
PFDM Award Jury
PRODUCER | FRANCE
LAURENCE BACHMAN
She created Alya production in 1990 and then directed the fiction department of France 2 from 2000 to 2005. From 2005 to 2021, she was General Manager of Barjac production and the Telfrance group. Since 2022, Laurence Bachman is an independent producer and consultant.
PRODUCER | FRANCE
FRANÇOISE MARCHETTI BOUVET
After nine years at Pathé as Director of Programmes for the Voyages channel, she became Secretary‑General for TMC, then for the NRJ group’s Television division for seven years. From 2013–2017, she was Executive Director at Troisième Œil and, since 2018, at Patrick Spica Productions.
PRODUCER | FRANCE
PATRICIA BOUTINARD ROUELLE
She was Director of Documentaries at France Télévisions for 16 years. In 2011, she founded Nilaya Productions, an independent production company specialised in creative documentaries, that have been widely broadcast in France and internationally.
FILMMAKER | FRANCE
CLAIRE LAJEUNIE
She was a director for Capa for 15 years before founding L2 Films in 2012. The issue of social outcasts, those on the fringe of society, is one of her favourite topics. She has also turned her attention to drama.
DIRECTOR OF “DÉCOUVERTE” CHANNELS AND DOCUMENTARIES OF CANAL+ GROUP | FRANCE
CHRISTINE CAUQUELIN
In 2001, she became head of Documentary Acquisitions for the Canal+ group; in 2004, head of
Documentaries for Canal+ France; and in 2014, the Découverte channels for Planète+. Since 2018, she has served as director of Documentaries for the Canal+ group and its Découverte channels.
GENERAL DIRECTOR, ROBIN&CO | FRANCE
LAETITIA RECAYTE
She worked at Zodiak (formerly Marathon) before joining Telfrance in 2002. In 2015, she joined the management team of France Télévisions and was elected President of TV France International. In January 2020, she became Chief Executive Officer of Robin&Co, where she also produces documentary films.
Young Europeans Jury
17 YO | CITÉ SCOLAIRE JEAN-BAPTISTE DARNET | FRANCE
DAPHNÉ BOISSIÈRE
23 YO | FACULTY OF DRAMATIC ARTS | NORTH MACEDONIA
ROZE SIMONOVSKA
25 YO | TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES | FINLANDE
MARIA HIEKKAMÄKI
24 YO | BELGIQUE
SARA 24 ANS BRUXELLES BELGIQUEVAN ACOLEYEN
27 YO | UNIVERSITY OF THEATRE AND FILM ARTS | HUNGARY
HANNA KÁDÁR
23 YO | FACULTAD DE COMUNICACIÓN Y RELACIONES INTERNACIONALES BLANQUERNA-URL | SPAIN
