Campbell X (Chair)
2023 Iris Prize Jury
Campbell X’s work deals with queer memory, messiness, desire and Blackness across the African diaspora. He directed the award-winning queer urban romantic comedy feature film STUD LIFE which was voted by the Guardian as one of the top 10 Black...
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Alastair James
2023 Iris Prize Jury
Alastair is a journalist with Attitude Magazine, the best-selling gay magazine in the UK and Europe. Before this Alastair worked in Cardiff as a Broadcast Journalist with BBC Wales and has previously attended the Iris Festival as an audience member....
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Cherie Federico
2023 Iris Prize Jury
Cherie Federico is the Director and co-founder of Aesthetica, the internationally acclaimed British art and culture brand that began with Aesthetica Magazine in 2002. Now in its 20th year, Aesthetica has grown into a multi-platform brand with an international audience...
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Cinder Chou
2023 Iris Prize Jury
Cinder Chou is a Taiwanese American writer, director, and producer originally from the oft maligned state of New Jersey and currently resides in Brooklyn. An early love for comic books turned into a passion for visual storytelling. Her work explores...
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Darius Shu
2023 Iris Prize Jury
Darius Shu is a cinematographer and producer who loves telling poetic visual stories with striking imagery. A storyteller who loves humanistic arthouse films and is a firm believer in the concept of ‘show… don’t tell’ and creating images that stay...
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John Sheedy
2023 Iris Prize Jury
John Sheedy is an award-winning film, television and theatre director. His first short film Mrs McCutcheon had its Australian premiere at the Melbourne International Film Festival in 2017, won Short Film of the Year at the 17th Annual Screen Producers...
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Guto Rhun
2023 Iris Prize Jury
Guto Rhun is currently working as Young Audiences Commissioner at S4C. In this role, he is responsible for developing and commissioning a wide range of content for S4C’s 16-25-year-old audience. One of his primary responsibilities is Hansh, S4C’s online youth...
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Lindsay Robinson
2023 Iris Prize Jury
Lindsay Robinson has worked at Co-op for over 20 years and is currently a Store Manager. For the past two years Lindsay also been heavily involved in the Respect LGBTQ+ colleague network within the business, as one of the colleagues...
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Roxy Bourdillon
2023 Iris Prize Jury
Roxy Bourdillon is an award-winning writer and the editor-in-chief of DIVA, the world’s leading magazine for LGBTQIA women and non-binary people. As a journalist, she has interviewed everyone from A-listers Emma Stone, Rachel Weisz and Keira Knightley to the legendary...
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Werner Borkes
2023 Iris Prize Jury
Werner Borkes is the Festival Director of Roze Filmdagen, the Amsterdam LGBTQ+ Film Festival and in that capacity ultimately responsible for the programming of the 12-day festival that will experience its 27th edition in 2024. Started as a programmer in...
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