Meet the juries of CPH:DOX & CPH:INDUSTRY 2024

As we are counting the days until the 21st edition of CPH:DOX rolls out, we are thrilled to reveal the juries across all of our film and industry competition sections. This edition marks a record-breaking number of awards to be handed out and will surely be one to remember.

The winners of the CPH:INDUSTRY awards will be announced during the Industry Happy Hour on Thursday, March 21 at 18:00, open to all accredited guests. The winners across all film competitions will be announced on Friday, March 22 during the Award Ceremony at 20:00 (by invitation). Both events will take place at CPH:DOX’s festival palace Kunsthal Charlottenborg, so mark your calendars!

DOX:AWARD
12 feature-length world premieres have been selected to compete in the festival’s international competition DOX:AWARD. The selection will be judged by an international jury consisting of Jessica Kiang (festival programmer Belfast FF and film critic, Variety), Nataša Urban (director and former Dox:Award winner with ‘The Eclipse’), Monica Hellström (producer), Rémi Bohnhomme (Artistic Director at Marrakech International Film Festival, Morocco) and Carla Gutiérrez (director and editor, ‘Frida’). The winning film will receive a cash prize of €10,000 sponsored by DR.

F:ACT AWARD
10 films exploring the intersection between documentary filmmaking and investigative journalism have been nominated for the F:ACT Award. The award comes with a cash prize of €5,000 and is supported by International Media Support and the Danish Journalist Union. The award will be handed out by Lena Karbe (director and former F:act Award winner with ‘Black Mambas’), Sigal Yehuda (Founder & Executive Director, Close-Up, Belgium) and Maria Bäck (Director).

NEXT:WAVE AWARD
14 titles have been selected for our competition dedicated to emerging international artists and filmmakers. The selection will be judged by Sofie Cato Maas (Film critic and editor / co-founder of Outskirts), Wim Vanecker (Programmer & Advisor, Festival de Cannes) as well as Christian Einshøj (director and former Next:Wave Award nominee). The NEXT:WAVE award comes with a cash prize of €5,000 provided by the festival.

NORDIC:DOX AWARD
10 among the best and brightest in non-fiction filmmaking from the Nordic countries are selected from across the full festival programme to run for the NORDIC:DOX award, valued at €5,000 and provided by the festival. The jury behind this competition consists of Mina Keshavaraz (director and producer, MinDoc Film Production Iran), Murtada Elfadl (Programmer and writer, DOC NYC) and Lin Alluna (director, ‘Twice Colonized’).

NEW:VISION AWARD
15 titles, both feature and short length have been selected for the NEW:VISION Award delving into art films and boundary-pushing experiments. A €5,000 cash prize provided by the festival will be decided upon by Bo Wang (artist and former winner of the New:Vision Award for ‘An Asian Ghost Story’), Marie Braad (curator, Art Hub Copenhagen, Denmark) and Fatema Abdoolcarim (artist, filmmaker and writer).

HUMAN:RIGHTS AWARD
10 films have been selected from across the festival programme for this new award dedicated to courageous filmmakers in defense and support of human rights. Sponsored by the Institute for Human Rights and valued at €5,000 the introduction of this new award celebrates the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The appointed jury consists of Leah Sapin (Associate Director, Human Rights Watch Film Festival), Mette Hoffmann-Meyer (CEO & Executive Producer, THE WHY Foundation) and Hanna Atallah (Founder & Artistic Director, FilmLab Palestine).

AUDIENCE AWARD
Last, but not least, the Audience Award, with a prize of €5,000 provided by the festival, empowers festival-goers to vote for their favorite film, further enriching CPH:DOX’s commitment to engaging its audience across a spectrum of documentary filmmaking excellence.

INTER:ACTIVE AWARD
17 pieces from VR and mixed reality to AI chatbots have been selected and will run for a brand new award for best immersive work. The appointed jury consists of Helene Nyborg (Artistic Director, Nikolaj Kunsthal, Denmark), Peter Fisher (Co-founder and CTO, Khora VR,
Denmark) and Sofie Hvitved (Futurist and Special Advisor in Media & Technology, Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies, Denmark).

NEW EURIMAGES LAB AWARDS
CPH:FORUM and Eurimages are handing out the New Eurimages Lab Awards in two separate strands – the Innovation Award, dedicated to innovative and experimental projects in development and the Outreach Award dedicated to promoting public awareness of innovative and experimental projects at the end of production or in post-production.

The Innovation Award will go to an established or emerging director or visual artist of a film for an innovative project showing an intention of international cooperation, and who is a national from or permanent resident of a Eurimages member state. The award amounts to €20,000 and will be handed out by an international jury consisting of Carole Kremer (Head of Office at Creative Europe MEDIA Desk, Film Fund Luxembourg), Tuuli Penttinnen-Lampisuo (Producer, Poike Productio) and Anneli Kustfält (SVT, Commissioning Editor, K Special).

The Outreach Award will go to an independent production company or to projects without a production company attached, to an established or emerging director of an innovative project striving to reach audiences beyond its domestic scope. The award amounts to €30,000 for the 2024-2026 cycle and will be handed out by an international jury consisting of Emile Hertling Péronard (Producer, Anorak Film), Eleni Chandrinou (Audiovisual Consultant, Greece) and Patricia Finneran (Impact Fund Officer, The StoryBoard Collective).

THE RISE AND SHINE & UNIFRANCE AWARDS
CPH:FORUM is delighted to partner with renowned sales agent Rise And Shine to introduce for the first time the Rise And Shine Award for the project with the best international potential and no sales agent attached yet at this year’s CPH:FORUM. The award consists of a €3000 cash prize awarded to the producer of the project.

In addition, CPH:FORUM, Unifrance and TitraFilm team up for the second year in a row in handing out the Unifrance Doc Award for the best French majority or minority co-produced pitch of this edition’s CPH:FORUM. The award consists of €2300 in post-production support for subtitling at TitraFilm and a one year Unifrance membership totalling the value of the award to €5390.

The jury for the two awards consist of  Charlotte Gry Madsen(Commissioning Editor, SVT Sweden), Babette Dieu (Project Leader & Coordinator, Cannes Docs – Marché du Film, France) and Freja Johanne Nørgaard Sørensen (Sales Executive, DR, Denmark).