Judges

Jess Search - BritDoc Festival

Jess Search is the founder of Shooting People - the UK’s independent filmmakers’ community with over 30,000 members in the UK and 5,000 in New York. See the website for, amongst other things, her invaluable book ‘Get Your Documentary Funded and Distributed’ . Before the Channel 4 British Documentary Film Foundation launched in Spring 2005, Jess was a comissioning editor at Channel 4 for 5 years. She has a dog called Yuri.

Greg Hall - Film Maker

Greg Hall is a London based independent filmmaker. Writer/ Director of “THE PLAGUE” (2004). He has  worked under the umbrella of Collective Vision as a  writer, director, editor and cinematographer and  collaborated on music videos with the Beta Brothers.  He is currently editing his second feature film entitled “KAPITAL” (2007) which will premiere in the summer of 2007. Read his interview on Remixing.

This photo was taken by Jon Mortimer at itsallelectric.com.

Hari Kunzru - Author

Hari Kunzru is the author of THE IMPRESSIONIST(2002), TRANSMISSION (2004) and the short story collection NOISE (2005). His work has been translated into twenty languages and won him prizes including the Somerset Maugham award, the Betty Trask prize, the John Llewellyn Rhys prize and a British Book Award. He is a member of the Executive Council of English PEN, a member of the editorial board of Mute magazine and a regular contributor to BBC Newsnight Review. A selection of his writing and photography is available online.

This photo was taken by Jet.

Cory Doctorow- Technology Activist, Novelist

Cory Doctorow is the co-editor of the popular weblog Boing Boing, a contributor to Wired, and many newspapers, magazines and websites. He serves as the Fulbright Chair at the University of Southern California.His novels are published by Tor Books and simultaneously released on the Internet under Creative Commons licenses. He has won the Locus and Sunburst Awards, and been nominated for the Hugo, Nebula and British Science Fiction Awards. 

This photo belongs to an album called Faces of London, 01/2005

William Fowler - Curator, BFI National Archive

William Fowler is the Curator of Artists' Moving Image at the BFI National Archive, providing a preservation resource for artists working with film and video.  He is also producing the BFI DVD of the films WHOLLY COMMUNION (1965) and BENEFIT OF THR DOUBT (1967) by the iconic sixties film director Peter Whitehead.  William Fowler also co-programmes the cult film strand, The Flipside, at the National Film Theatre.