Rania Vamvaka
2022 Best British Jury
Rania Vamvaka is a dedicated activist who lends most of her time ensuring that LGBT+ ethnic minorities in Wales have representation. Rania is the co-chair of Glitter Cymru, and the founder and chair of Glitter Sisters, the enbys and womyx...
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Adam Ali - Iris Prize Winner 2021
2022 Best British Jury
Adam Ali is a British Libyan actor and director striving to celebrate queer Muslim visibility. He received a Film Independent Spirit Award nomination for his performance as ‘Zain’ in the season finale of Apple TV’s ‘Little America’. Directed by NBC’s...
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Yan White
2022 Best British Jury
Yan White is the Founder and Director of The Queer Empoirum, an LGBTQ+ Social Enterprise that is a collective of over 15 LGBTQ+ local businesses. Since opening as a pop-up, it now also operates as a cafe and events space...
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Tim Highsted
2022 Best British Jury
Tim Highsted is the Senior Film Editor of acquired feature films for Channel4 and its portfolio of channels. He has worked in the film industry since the mid-Eighties in arts and film programming and theatrical distribution at the Institute of Contemporary...
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Emily Garside
2022 Best British Jury
Emily Garside is a writer of queer stories. She spent many years as an academic and lecturer, beginning with her PhD on theatrical responses to the AIDS crisis and the evolution of LGBTQ theatre. She published her first non-fiction book...
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James Bell
Best British Performance Jury
James Bell is a London-based Producer and Screenwriter. After carving out a career in the arts, James discovered a new-found passion for writing and producing film. Queer himself, he believes in the importance of accurately portraying LGBTQ+ lives on screen....
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Leo LeBeau
Best British Performance Jury
Leo LeBeau is a British Director and Screenwriter with a passion for Queer stories. Leo graduated from The National Film and Television School in 2020, where he received the BAFTA Prince William Scholarship and title of Warner Brothers Creative Talent....
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