2017 Jury Archive

Katie White

CHAIR - Best British Jury

Katie White is an award-winning, Scottish BAFTA-nominated writer, producer and director based in Scotland. Her 2014 film Middle Man, directed by Charlie Francis, won the award for Best British Short at that year’s Iris Prize Festival. She and Charlie returned...

Neil Moffatt

International Jury

Neil Moffatt is a member of the Co-Op Respect network’s steering group, helping to educate various areas of the business on LGBT issues. He has an enquiring mind and loves travel and lives in St Helens with his husband Jonathan....

Angela Clarke

With more than fifteen years’ experience of working in film and television, Angela will be combining her duties on this year’s Iris Prize international jury with showing her new documentary film Bachelor, 38, made to mark the 50th anniversary of...

Jacob Engelberg

Best British Jury

Jacob Engelberg is the Programmer of Eyes Wide Open Cinema, a queer film strand based in Brighton. He has curated film for Trans Pride Brighton and the Women Over 50 Film Festival. Jacob has an academic background in Film Studies...

Matt Cain

Best British Jury

Matt Cain spent ten years making arts and entertainment programmes for ITV before stepping in front of the camera to become Channel 4 News’ first ever Culture Editor and writing the novels Shot Through the Heart and Nothing But Trouble....

Campbell X

International Jury

Campbell is an award-winning filmmaker and the director of queer urban romcom Stud Life (2012). Their recent film DES!RE is a meditation on desire for queer masculinity, including transgender and female masculinity. They are currently working on a second feature,...

Christopher Schaap

International Jury

Christopher Schaap is a filmmaker and Seattle University graduate. In 2016, he wrote, directed, and starred in his first feature film, Prom King, 2010, which won the New Vision Award at Cinequest 2017 and has since played at a variety...

Carrie Lyell

International Jury

Carrie Lyell is a journalist who joined DIVA magazine in 2013. She’s always wanted to write about queer culture (in her words, “because being gay is the only thing I’m any good at”) and is passionate about amplifying queer women’s...

Dafydd Jones

International Jury

Dafydd Jones is a Programme Editor for ITV Wales, leading the editorial team behind the channel’s flagship news programme, Wales at Six. “I’m thrilled to be a judge this year and enjoy some of the finest LGBT filmmaking from across...

Tim Isaac

International Jury

Tim Isaac is a former magazine editor who launched Big Gay Picture Show after realising how difficult it can be to find out about new LGBT films. The site is now one of the most popular specialist gay cinema websites...

Lisa Gornick

International Jury

Lisa Gornick has made two award winning feature films, Do I Love You? (2003) and Tick Tock Lullaby (2007). She has directed for Channel 4, acted in films and theatre and has performed in her own live drawing shows at...

Joan Burnett

International Jury

Joan has been a Trustee of Liverpool Pride since 2010. She began her involvement in film by volunteering for Liverpool’s Outsiders LGBTQ Film Festival in 2005, and has programmed film for Liverpool Pride since the beginning.  She is a founder...

Craig Boreham

International Jury

Craig Boreham is an Australian director whose films have been shown at over 200 international festivals, including Berlin, Cannes and Palm Springs. A retrospective of Craig’s work, CINEMA OF TRUE POISON, was presented by Fundacion Triangulo in Madrid. Craig has...

Joan Beveridge

International Jury

Bournemouth Film School graduate Joan started at WAVES, a women’s media training organisation, and founded Gay & Lesbian Arts and Media (GLAM) in Brighton, before becoming Media Development Coordinator for Cornwall.  Commissioned by Channel 4’s Dyke TV, her short films...

Brian Robinson

CHAIR - International Jury

Brian Robinson was a press officer for the British Film Institute 1987 – 2017. He developed a parallel career programming for both the National Film Theatre and the London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival (now BFI Flare) where he remains...

Adam Silver

International Jury

From guiding the marketing strategy of Australia’s largest independent exhibitor (Palace Cinemas), to acquiring films for the world’s largest LGBT distributor (TLA), Adam brings over fifteen years industry experience, and a serious love of LGBT cinema to Iris this year....