For more than 40 years, tve has pioneered environmental filmmaking, helping bring vital stories about our planet and how to protect it to millions around the world.

tve trustee and Chair of tve's GSFA Judging panel. Nick is a director and presenter with the

Stockholm-based climate platform and broadcaster We Don't Have Time. 

He is also

the former Spokesperson and Director of Communications and Outreach for the UN

Environment Programme headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change headquartered in Bonn, Germany. Nick was the official spokesperson for the Paris Climate Agreement of 2015.

With a background in news and a passion for documentary storytelling, she has produced, directed and written for various international news channels and NPO’s covering human interest stories across Africa, Asia and the Middle East, from Brazil to Rwanda and Afghanistan. She has launched three TV channels for MultiChoice Africa in Angola, South Africa and Zambia. For the past three years she was Director of the MultiChoice Talent Factory launching three film academies for MultiChoice in Nigeria, Zambia and Kenya, supporting the development of young passionate filmmakers across the African continent. She continues to focus on media that matters.

 Aina is a Sustainability Director for Marketing & Media at the Responsible Marketing Agency and had a former career as a documentary producer in New York City.  Her passion for Sustainability started whilst volunteering for an ocean conversation charity in the Pacific Islands, and since then she’s designed her career and lifestyle to focus full time on the subject. She’s excited to marry her formal training in film and her career experience in Sustainability to dive into this year’s submissions. 

Njoki Muhoho is a Kenyan award winning film producer and writer. She has over 18 years experience in film making and is a member of the International Emmys. Njoki is currently the Executive Producer of ‘Salem’ a 260 Episodes Telenovela for Mnet/DSTV Channels.

A former Director with the Kenya Film Commission, the government body mandated with the national development and marketing of film, Njoki has a passion for national film development. She is the founding and former Academy Director for the MultiChoice Talent Factory - East Africa, the Multichoice Africa Group sponsored film academy for talented youth. 

 Jens Ambsdorf is the Managing Director of the Lighthouse Foundation, a German non-profit organisation focussing on the implementation of local sustainable development projects and the role of the marine environment for the future of humanity. Jens Ambsdorf holds a diploma in ecology and for more than 30 years his work focuses on ecosystems, people and sustainable development.  

 
André Singer is both filmmaker and anthropologist originally making films for World in Action and Disappearing World. He devised and produced the environmental series Battle for the Planet for C4 and wrote the book to accompany it. For the BBC, he founded the documentary series Fine Cut (which later became Storyville) where he first linked up with Werner Herzog  subsequently playing a role on sixteen of Werner’s films including Into the Inferno and Fireball : Visitors from Darker Worlds; and co-Directing Meeting Gorbachev. As an Executive Producer he worked on Josh Oppenheimer’s Oscar nominated films The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence.  As a director he was awarded the Peabody and Emmy for his film Night Will Fall, and in 2016 completed an anti-nuclear film Where the Wind Blew which won the Raven Award for best feature documentary at DocUtah.    

James works in businesses and initiatives around climate change and restoring biodiversity. He’s on the board of Vertis Environmental Finance, an emissions trading firm, and cofounder of Zsamboki Biokert, Planet League, Flite Protein and Wild Power, (struggling) start-ups doing innovative things in climate action. He wrote Climate Change for Football Fans. 

Professor Monica Lakhanpaul is a Professor of Integrated Community Child Health at UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, University College London and an Honorary Consultant Paediatrician. She is renown for her work integrating the arts and media with interdisciplinary research on sustainability and global health to influence policy-making and science communication and is the recipient of the British Science Association Media Fellowship, Asian Women of Achievement Award (Public Sector), Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH) Health and Wellbeing Award, and most recently the Iconic Bharat Gaurav Puraskar 2022 Film Award for her work producing the Rajasthan: Myths & Moods’ travel documentary added to the British Film Directory by the British Council and screened at the London Lift-Off Film Festival 2023. She currently co-hosts UCL's 'Unlocking the SDGs: A Blueprint for the Future' podcast focused on raising public awareness of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. 

Imogen Bhogal works as a presenter and producer for The Fully Charged Show and The Everything Electric, the world’s largest sustainability and electric vehicle channels. Alongside Fully Charged, Imogen moderates The Financial Times' Annual Future of The Car Event. She is an alumni of electric vehicle startup Arrival where she worked across policy, strategy and communications. She has also worked in the Experience Strategy mapping future mobility and automotive trends. Prior to Arrival, Imogen worked as an aerodynamics engineer at Jaguar Land Rover before leading the company's technology and innovation communications. From graduating in engineering from the University of Oxford and working across the automotive and sustainability industry, Imogen is a passionate technology and science communicator.

Faith Elizabeth is a filmmaker and the visionary founder of YES SHE CANNES, a groundbreaking campaign launched in 2018 to empower and support women in the film industry. Under her leadership, the organization has become a prominent force, recognized by Variety and Forbes Magazine, providing resources and fostering a supportive community for women at major film festivals like Cannes and Venice.

Liz Perkins is the night news editor of the Daily Express. She has worked across the national press from the Daily Telegraph to the Sunday Times. Liz has won awards for her journalism and has been recognised for her work in her law-changing, “End This Injustice” campaign in the Daily Express. She has reported from Afghanistan and broke the exclusive on sexism and misogyny in the Welsh Rugby Union.

Daphne is an award-winning Director and Founder of Breaking Through The Lens, a global initiative that advocates for gender equality in film by offering vital support at the financing stage. Daphne's debut feature 'The Eye' won Best International Feature at the London Independent Film Festival and Best Director at the Greece International Film Festival. Her previous film work has been featured on CNN, SBS, Amazon Prime and broadcast in over 30 countries.

Judith is an Executive Director in the Media Banking Office at Coutts & Co, a leading private bank with a specialist media division involved in all areas of the media and creative industries including film, television, music, theatre, arts, games, advertising, marketing services, publishing, tech and fashion.  She heads up its business development for the team, originating new business, developing new products and specialises in structuring film and television debt transactions.  Judith has over twenty-five years’ experience in media financing, starting her career at an investment bank in Los Angeles where she spearheaded the Bank’s involvement with the independent film and television sectors, followed by Ingenious Media where she managed three equity funds principally investing in film and television content, and over 15 years with the Media team at Coutts.

Judith is currently a Trustee of Film London, The National Film and Television School Foundation, The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, The Resilient Foundation and a Development Board member of the National Youth Theatre.

Steve has written for many years on travel, business, wildlife and climate change. As chief reporter for the Society of Environmental Authors & Journalists, he covers major events in, for example, film, conservation and travel. Personally, he has published a number of books under his TheLonePenguin imprint. He also writes and produces nature-based documentaries. Steve serves as chairman of the Sacred Nature Initiative. 

Massimiliano Mazzotta is the Reporter & Artistic Director of LIFE AFTER OIL International Film Festival. Almost a decade ago he released his investigative documentary on a refinery in southern Sardinia (Italy).

Marco De Luca is a UK based Italian filmmaker.  Since studying filmmaking in Denmark, Marco has explored different aspects of visual arts through painting and photography.

He has directed many award winning short films and two feature films, the latest one "Beneath the Trees" is available on Amazon Prime. Since relocating to the UK Marco has worked in television making documentaries for various channels. 

Nicky is a multiple award-winning documentary film-maker and executive producer. She spent four years as Head of Documentaries at Thomson Reuters Foundation, where she spearheaded films across the organisation’s human rights remit of climate change, LGBT+, land rights, women’s rights, human trafficking.

She has developed, executive produced and directed four series of an environmental documentary series with PBS, USA, ‘Earth Focus.’ Prior to TRF she was head of Film and Photo at a global NGO with a mission to alleviate poverty, and a commissioning executive in BBC Factual Television.

Her love of photography has led her to exhibit in London, and work as a freelance photographer before moving back into roles which allowed her to combine film and photography.

Rochak Saxena is a Mass Media Teacher in Vadodara, Gujarat, a former journalist at DNA and an ardent lover of Hindi films - literally. Apart from being an academician, he is also an independent film critic reviewing Hindi films on his website filmreviewmagic.com under the name Magical Suspension of Disbelief. With a keen interest in cinema and its analysis, he has also produced radio shows for the community radio. He is also an independent Bollywood Quizmaster conducting quizzing events across Gujarat.