D and C Days Film Competition 2011 Judges

4th annual D&C International Film Competition

Sponsored by the Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN)

This year, our international judging panel members are:

Laurie Goering

Laurie Goering, is the editor of AlertNet Climate, the Thomson Reuters Foundation's daily news website on the humanitarian and development impacts of climate change. As part of her work, she manages a string of 80 developing world climate correspondents around the globe and runs climate change training programs for developing world journalists. Before launching AlertNet Climate in 2009, she worked as a foreign correspondent for the Chicago Tribune for 15 years, based in New Delhi, Johannesburg, Rio de Janeiro, Havana, Mexico City and London. She has written about climate issues since 2003 in a range of countries around the world, and has covered many of the recent international climate change negotiations sessions..

Fayyaz Ahmed Khan

Fayyaz Ahmed Khan is CDKN’s sub -regional coordinator for Knowledge Management for LEAD Pakistan in Islamabad. Fayyaz is highly experienced in using media for communication and health and sustainable development advocacy He is a former television anchor and an accomplished journalist with over 20 years of experience and more than 60 hours of TV and radio production to his credit. He was previously a country representative for John Hopkins University where he led a maternal and neonatal project focusing on cost-effective, replicable models for improving maternal health. Mr. Khan recently produced a full-length movie on gender and women health issues, Bol (speak) which has set new box office records becoming the highest earning film in Pakistan. Bol has recently been released in India, UK and North America.

Franny Armstrong

Former pop drummer and self-taught filmmaker Franny Armstrong, has directed three feature documentaries - The Age of Stupid (2008), McLibel (2005) and Drowned Out (2003) - which have together been seen by 70 million people worldwide. In the early days of the internet in 1996 she founded the McSpotlight website, which Wired magazine described as "the blueprint for all activist websites". Through her company, Spanner Films, Franny pioneered the “crowd-funding” finance model, which allows filmmakers to raise reasonable-size budgets whilst retaining ownership of their films. The Age of Stupid is the most successful known example, raising £900,000+ from 300+ investors as well as the “Indie Screenings” distribution system, which lets anyone make a profit by holding screenings of independent films. In March 2009, the solar-powered Age of Stupid "People's Premiere" set a new Guinness World Record by being simultaneously screened in 63 cinemas across Britain, while only producing 1% of the emissions of a standard premiere. It hit No 1 at the UK Box Office, (despite spending no money on advertising) and a million people watched Stupid's Global Premiere event in 2009 in 700 cinemas in 63 countries around the world, linked by satellite.

In September 2009 Franny founded the 10:10 climate campaign which aimed to cut the UK's carbon emissions by 10% during 2010 and which amassed huge cross-societal support including 75,000 people, 1,500 schools, a third of local councils, the entire UK Government and the Prime Minister and corporates such as Adidas, Microsoft, Spurs FC and the Royal Mail,. 10:10 launched internationally in March 2010 and, as of July 2010, had autonomous campaigns up and running in 41 countries. 10:10 estimates that organisations doing 10:10 have so far cut 500,000 tonnes of C02. Franny is a Londoner born and bred.

Jorisna Bonthuys

Jorisna Bonthuys is the communications officer at WWF-SA's Biodiversity Unit, focusing on marine issues and communications around land stewardship. She is an award winning environmental journalist and formerly a reporter at a daily Afrikaans newspaper in the News24 group. . She has 11 years news room experience (in print media), including as a parliamentary reporter on the newspaper’s political desk. She has received numerous awards including the prestigious South African Breweries Environmental Reporter of the Year Award, the Mondi Shanduka award for analysis and commentary (print media) and Media24's Journalist of the Year award. She has covered various UN climate change negotiations and has a special interest in communicating around climate resilience and biodiversity issues. She has a Masters degree in Southern African Political Science and lives in Cape Town, South Africa.

Dr Hannah Reid

Dr Hannah Reid is IIED Team leader responsible for building the capacity of government and civil society actors at all levels in vulnerable countries and ecosystems and specialist in the impacts of climate change on the world’s poorest people.

Much of her work has focused on advocacy and raising awareness about these impacts and helping find and share solutions. She is lead editor of Tiempo – a Bulletin on Climate Change and Development, and has managed the IIED international conferences on Community-Based Adaptation and also the annual Development and Climate Change event at the international climate change negotiations since 2002. She also manages the Capacity building in the Least Developed Countries on Adaptation to Climate Change Programme , which works in 15 poor countries that are particularly vulnerable to climate change and has been operational since 2003. She has a PhD in biodiversity management and is currently based in Argentina

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