Lynn Hunter
CHAIR Iris Prize International Jury
Lynn is a popular and much respected actress. She has been fortunate enough to have worked in theatre, television, film and radio. For the past 20 years she has also been involved in the development of new writing. This year...
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Matthew Follows
Performance Jury
Matthew is currently reading Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Westminster. He Chair’s National Student Pride, an annual weekend festival, bringing students from across the UK together to celebrate and educate in LGBT issues around the world.
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Robert Gershinson
Performance Jury
Robert is a London based photographer and director. In 2014 he produced the online video project 20MALEGAY and in 2009 he co-founded Queer As Film – a short film screening/networking event and blog that is dedicated to celebrating queer cinema.
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Tris Reid-Smith
Feature Jury
Tris is co-founder of the gay publication, Gay Star News.
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Scott Nunn
Performance Jury
Scott is co-founder of the gay publication, Gay Star News.
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Roisin Geraghty
Performance Jury
Roisín is the film programmer for Gaze LGBT Film Festival in Dublin. She is also an independent documentary producer, and is passionate about the creation and curation of narrative and documentary film. Pre-Gazing, she worked with various film organisations in...
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Paul Sweeney
Feature Jury
Paul is a film consultant who is currently working with VUE Cinemas. He was previously a Senior Film Buyer for Cineworld Cinemas, in the UK and Ireland. With over 16 years’ experience in the film industry, Paul return’s to the...
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Martin Briggs
Feature Jury
Retired gay activist and sponsor of the Iris Prize Best Feature Award. Martin ran a successful financial services business for over thirty years. Now retired he is able to spend more time on music and the arts. He plays violin...
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Emma Clark
Feature Jury
Buzz was set up in 1991 and has run independently since, it is the leading independent entertainment and cultural guide in Wales, with a distribution from Cardiff to Swansea, Mid and South Wales. Buzz is the essential guide for the...
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Matt Lissack
Best British Jury
Matt Lissack wakes up South Wales every morning on Capital South Wales’ flagship programme ‘Capital Breakfast’. He started his career, broadcasting at various stations in the South West before joining Capital in 2006. His career has also seen him present...
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Sarah Street
Best British Jury
Sarah Street is Professor of Film at the University of Bristol. She has published many books on different aspects of film, including British cinema history, film costume, set design and her latest projects are on film colour. In 2007 she...
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Luisa Pèrcopo
Best British Jury
Luisa is a post-colonialist (those that come with a hyphen), an Australian Film specialist and a globetrotter. Born in Melbourne she grew up trilingual in Cagliari, Sardinia. She has lived in Cardiff for the past ten years and teaches Cultural...
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Kate White
Best British Jury
Katie is an award winning, Scottish BAFTA NTA nominee and a pro-active member of the Scottish Independent filmmaking scene. She wrote / co-produced last year’s Iris Prize winning Best British short ‘Middle Man.’ Katie is at present looking into funding her...
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Craig Ford
Best British Jury
Craig is a filmmaker and co-founder of Queer as Film, a film festival championing young gay cinema. His films have been exhibited around the world from Puerto Rico and Transylvania to L.A and London. Craig’s first feature, Once Upon a...
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Lucy Peters
Iris Prize International Jury
Lucy Peters is the Film Editor at DIVA Magazine. A big fan of Alison Bechdel, she thinks the Bechdel test as a tool of feminist film analysis is somewhat overhyped. She also writes about music, performance and queer culture for...
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Ruth McCarthy
Iris prize International Jury
Ruth McCarthy is co-founder and Artistic Director of Outburst Queer Arts Festival, Northern Ireland’s annual international queer arts event. A queer activist, programmer and multimedia producer for over 25 years, she is passionate about the role of film, theatre and...
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Charlie Francis
Iris Prize International Jury
Charlie hails from Glasgow where he’s been making short films for a few years. His comedy ’Middle Man’ won the Best Of British category at The Iris Prize, and was nominated for a BAFTA NTA.
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Brendon McDonall
Iris Prize International Jury
Brendon is a director, screenwriter and actor. A graduate of UWS Theatre Nepean (Acting) and AFTRS (Australian Film, Television & Radio School – Directing & Screenwriting), His short film ‘All God’s Creatures’ was nominated for the Dendy Award for Best...
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Poppy Stockell
Iris Prize International Jury
Poppy Stockell is a multi-award winning film and television director, writer and producer with a penchant for stories exploring human interest, identity and humour. Poppy’s debut feature documentary Searching 4 Sandeep, won the Audience Award for most popular film at...
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Noel Sutton
Iris Prize International Jury
Noel is the Festival Director with GAZE International LGBT Film festival. Noel took the lead with GAZE in 2011 and has produced and developed the biggest festivals to date, with a very well established, behind the scene, career in film...
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Jason Bradbury
Iris Prize International Jury
Jason Bradbury is a director and trailer editor. His film ‘We Once Were Tide’ has attracted over 2.4 million views on YouTube and he is developing a feature film entitled ‘We Became The Cold.’ Jason worked at Peccadillo Pictures, for...
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Andrew Nackman
Iris Prize International Jury
Andrew Nackman is a filmmaker from New York. He just completed his first feature film, Fourth Man Out, which will be screening at this year’s Iris Prize Festival. It also won the Audience Award for Best Dramatic Feature at Outfest...
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