Juries

Short Film Jury

Aneta Ozorek

Aneta Ozorek is an Artistic Director of Kaboom Animation Festival, which takes place in the Netherlands from 5th - 14th April 2024.

Mohamed Ghazala

Mohamed Ghazala is an Egyptian associate professor of animation and the chair of the Cinematic Arts School at Effat University, Saudi Arabia. He also serves as Vice President of the International Animated Film Association, ASIFA.

Ornela Čop

Ornela has been Festival Coordinator at Animafest Zagreb since 2017. Since 2020, she has assisted in coordinating the Animation Festival Network, connecting five leading animation festivals from Central and Eastern Europe.

Feature Film Jury

Claire Jennings

Claire Jennings is a multi-award winning animation producer whose list of feature film credits include Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit and the American feature film Coraline.

Kambole Campbell

Kambole Campbell is a freelance critic based in London. His writing – on live-action and animated film, video games and comics, has appeared in Vulture, BBC Culture, Empire, i-D, Sight & Sound and Little White Lies, and others.

Kata Gugić

Kata Gugić is based in Zagreb where she works as a director and animator and is president of ASIFA Croatia.

Children's Films Jury

Into Film

For the Best Children's Film Award, we're very excited to be working with Into Film who have assembled an esteemed jury from their Youth Advisory Council! Attend our awards ceremony to find out what film was a favourite amongst the animated youth of the UK!