{"id":7463,"date":"2023-01-31T11:07:07","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T09:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/?p=7463"},"modified":"2023-02-28T12:10:51","modified_gmt":"2023-02-28T10:10:51","slug":"jury-teddy-award-3023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/2023\/01\/31\/jury-teddy-award-3023\/","title":{"rendered":"Jury TEDDY AWARD 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We\u2019re happy to announce the 37th TEDDY AWARD\u2019s jury. Six renowned film- and festivalmakers <\/strong>are going to choose from this Berlinale\u2019s queer movies, awarding the Best Feature Film and Best Short Film , Best Documentary\/Essay Film and TEDDY Jury Award with a TEDDY AWARD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alfonso F. Escand\u00f3n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Alfonso F. Escand\u00f3n <\/strong>(pronouns he\/him)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Festival Mix M\u00e9xico
<\/a>Subdirector<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alfonso F. Escand\u00f3n<\/strong><\/strong> was born in Mexico City and has been vice director, since 2005, of Festival MIX Mexico \u2013 Film and Sexual Diversity. He\u00b4s got a degree in Communication Sciences from the \u201cTecnol\u00f3gico de Monterrey\u201d University and has diplomas in Film Direction and Screenwriting. He\u00b4s worked in the production area of \u200b\u200bfilms by Luis V\u00e9lez, Jaime Aparicio, Juli\u00e1n Hern\u00e1ndez, Roberto Fiesco, Ram\u00f3n Cervantes, among others. Under his heteronym Constantino Escand\u00f3n, he has written and directed the short films: The Raven<\/em>, based on the poem by Edgar A. Poe (2000); The Lonely\u202f<\/em> (2005); Anonymous<\/em> (2006); Lucio<\/em> (2006); Philia<\/em> (2007); in 2008 he adapted the poem \u201cMa prison\u201d<\/em> by Paul Verlaine, to make the short film of the same name and in 2009 he made the short film \u201cCerro de la Cruz\u201d <\/em>(with the support of the Mexican Institute of Cinematography) that was part of the \u201cOnde\u201d section of the 27th Torino Film Festival<\/a>; he recently wrote and directed the feature film But infinite love will ascend in my soul<\/em> (work in progress). Under his heteronym Celad\u00f3n, he was the Director of Photography for the feature films: Torments<\/em> (2008) by Alfredo Valencia, produced by Jaime Humberto Hermosillo and Someone else’s skin <\/em>(work in progress) <\/em>by Arturo Castel\u00e1n. He has published two photography books: Male Emancipation Vol.1 \u2013 Sensation,<\/em> and Male Emancipation Vol.2 \u2013 Melancholy<\/em>, based on the poems of the same names by Arthur Rimbaud and Rub\u00e9n Dar\u00edo, respectively; his work has been exhibited both in Mexico and Spain.\u202f \u202f<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Darunee Terdtoontaveedej <\/strong>(pronouns she\/they)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CinemAsia Film Festival
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Singapore International Film Festival<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Curator and Programmer<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Darunee Terdtoontaveedej<\/strong><\/strong> is a curator and cultural programmer based in The Hague. Formerly trained as an architect and designer, Terdtoontaveedej is interested in the intersection of alternative (his)stories, creative practices, and cinema. She is a co-founder of Non Native Native, a cultural platform which looks into the Asian creative landscape in the Netherlands through the lens of outsiders from within. She has programmed at festivals and institutions such as CinemAsia Film Festival<\/a> (Amsterdam), International Film Festival Rotterdam<\/a> (IFFR), Sinema Transtopia<\/a> (Berlin), Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film<\/a> (Singapore), and Singapore International Film Festival<\/a> (SGIFF).\u202f <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Melanie Iredale<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Melanie Iredale <\/strong>(pronouns she\/her)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Birds\u2019 Eye View
<\/a>Director<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Melanie Iredale<\/strong><\/strong> is a film curator and agitator. Melanie was recently appointed as Director of Birds\u2019 Eye View<\/a> \u2013 a UK-wide charity with a mission to champion women & non-binary-led films, to build a community for them through its #ReclaimTheFrame project, and to advocate for equity in all film spaces.\u202f  Prior to this, Melanie was Deputy Director at Sheffield DocFest<\/a> 2014-2021, leading on the development of its arts\/interactive programme and co-programmer of its Rhyme & Rhythm strand, and before that served as Director of Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival<\/a> 2009-2014, commissioning moving image art and performances that went on to win awards at International Film Festival Rotterdam and beyond.\u202f\u202f  Melanie has served on several juries\u202fincluding Nordisk Panorama<\/a> in Sweden, ZagrebDox<\/a> in Croatia, and Colombo International Women\u2019s Film Festival<\/a> in Sri Lanka. She is a proud Exec Producer of Harri Shanahan and Si\u00e2n A. \u202fWilliams\u2019 archive documentary Rebel Dykes<\/em>, which has brought the queer, ally, and activist communities together at over 50+ festivals around the world.\u202f\u202f <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sasha Prokopenko<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Sasha Prokopenko <\/strong>(pronouns she\/her)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kyiv International Short Film Festival
<\/a>Head of Programming<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sasha Prokopenko<\/strong><\/strong> is a programmer, film curator and translator based in Kyiv, Ukraine. Sasha is a Head of Programming at the Kyiv International Short Film Festival<\/a>. Since 2018, she’s been one of the curators of the Sexuality Matters section, focused on LGBTQIA+ rights, women’s rights, gender identity and sex positivity. Sasha also curates the Teen Screen section at the Molodist Kyiv International Film Festival<\/a>. Since 2016, she has worked at the independent film distribution company, KyivMusicFilm<\/a>, that distributes films on art, music and culture.\u202f <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tom Oyer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Tom Oyer <\/strong>(pronouns he\/him)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
<\/a>Senior Vice President, Member Relations, Global Outreach and Awards Administration<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tom Oyer<\/strong> <\/strong> is the Senior Vice President of Member Relations, Global Outreach and Awards Administration\u202fat the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences<\/a>, focusing on awards eligibility, submissions and voting.\u202f As part of the Academy\u2019s global outreach efforts, he has led presentations at such film festivals as Annecy<\/a>, Cartagena<\/a>, Docaviv<\/a>, Doc Edge<\/a>, Guadalajara<\/a>, and the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam<\/a>.\u202f Additionally, Oyer has been featured on panels at DOC NYC, Palm Springs, Sheffield and SXSW and juries at Cleveland<\/a>, Dallas<\/a>, Hot Docs<\/a> and Mountainfilm<\/a> festivals.\u202f Over the past 15 years at the Academy, Oyer has grown to oversee awards rules, the Animation, Documentary and Short Film categories and the Producers Branch.\u202f He also helped to lead the Academy\u2019s A2020 membership diversity initiative and the modernization of voting processes, including efforts to ensure global member participation through the launch of the Academy Screening Room, the Academy\u2019s viewing platform.\u202f <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Xena Scullard<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Xena Scullard <\/strong>(pronouns she\/her) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Queer Feminist Film Festival
<\/a>Co-Founder and Convenor<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Xena Scullard<\/strong> <\/strong> is a queer feminist activist, organiser and strategist. Xena has over a decade worth of experience working with queer and justice movements both locally within her context in SouthAfrica but also regionally and internationally. Xena is one of three co-founders and convenors of the first Queer Feminist Film Festival<\/a> (QFFF) in South Africa which hosted it very first festival in 2018. QFFF consciously seeks to politicize intersectionality within our content curation and the ways in which we engage dialogue and art as a disruptive and generative tool for queer humans by queer humans. As a Senior Racial Equity Fellow under the Atlantic Fellows<\/a> network, her work attempts tounearth and amplify the intersections between race, gender and justice. Xena currently works as an independent consultant with justice based organizations both regionally andinternationally. Xena\u2019s work centers creative disruption, artistic strategy and situated solidarity building.\u202f  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We\u2019re happy to announce the 37th TEDDY AWARD\u2019s jury. Six renowned film- and festivalmakers are going to choose from this Berlinale\u2019s queer movies, awarding the Best Feature Film and Best Short Film , Best Documentary\/Essay Film and TEDDY Jury Award with a TEDDY AWARD. Alfonso F. Escand\u00f3n (pronouns he\/him) Festival Mix M\u00e9xicoSubdirector Alfonso F. Escand\u00f3n was born in … Continue reading Jury TEDDY AWARD 2023<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":7467,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1282,1451,201,19,1450,54,1449,18,1448,1447,1446],"class_list":["post-7463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-37th-teddy-award","tag-alfonso-f-escandon","tag-berlin-international-film-festival","tag-berlinale","tag-darunee-terdtoontaveedej","tag-jury","tag-melanie-iredale","tag-queer-film-award","tag-sasha-prokopenko","tag-tom-oyer","tag-xena-scullard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7463"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7869,"href":"https:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7463\/revisions\/7869"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}