Tanya Seghatchian

Source: LFF

Tanya Seghatchian

The BFI London Film Festival has announced its jury line-up for this year’s event.

The official competition jury is led by The Power Of The Dog and Cold War producer Tanya Seghatchian, while the first feature competition jury, which grants the Sutherland Award, will be headed up by Queen Of Glory director and actor Nana Mensah.

Italian filmmaker Roberto Minervini will lead the jury selecting the winner of the Grierson Award for best documentary after winning the award in 2018 for his film What You Gonna Do When The World’s On Fire.

The immersive art and XR competition will be led by photographer Misan Harriman, and producer and director Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor will lead the jury selecting the best short film.

Seghatchian is joined in the official competition jury this year by actor Gwendoline Christie, filmmaker and playwright Kemp Powers, filmmaker Chaitanya Tamhane, and journalist Charles Gant, the awards and box office editor of Screen International.

Alongside Mensah in the first feature competition will be: comedian and actor Asim Chaudhry, Sight & Sound managing editor Isabel Stevens and Edinburgh International Film Festival creative director Kristy Matheson.

Joining Minervini on the documentary jury is producer and former director of the Sundance Film Festival Tabitha Jackson whose credits include 20,000 Days On Earth and The Imposter and writer and artist Morgan M Page whose recent work Framing Agnes, directed by Chase Joynt and co-written by Pagw, played at Sundance and BFI Flare Festivals earlier in 2022

Misan Harriman will be joined on immersive art and XR competition jury by London area director at Arts Council England Tonya Nelson and Olivier Delpoux, head of digital and audiovisual creation at the Institut Francais.

Joining Gharoro-Akpojotor on the short film jury will be film producer Sorcha Bacon; journalist Caspar Salmon and Maddy Probst, managing producer at Bristol Watershed.

Saint Omer, Corsage and Nezouh are among the eight titles screening as part of the LFF’s official competition this year.

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