The Jury 2015

Rithy Panh
Writer and director

Rithy Panh
Writer and director
Rithy Panh was born in Phnom Penh in Cambodia. After escaping from the Khmer Rouge camps in 1979, he spent several months in a refugee camp in Thailand. He moved to France a year later in 1985 and began attending IDHEC (Institut des hautes études cinématographiques [Institute for Advanced Cinematographic Studies]).

Diana El Jeiroudi
producer

Diana El Jeiroudi
producer
Born in Damascus in 1977, Diana El Jeiroudi is a Syrian independent documentary film director and producer, and a co-founder and general manager of the DOX BOX Association, supporting documentary filmmakers from the Arab World, an heir to the pioneering DOX BOX documentary film festival that she co-founded originally in Syria.

Scott Foundas
Chief Film Critic for Variety

Scott Foundas
Chief Film Critic for Variety
Scott Foundas is Chief Film Critic for Variety. Prior to joining Variety, he was Chief Film Critic for The Village Voice, where his writing was syndicated throughout the Village Voice Media network (including the L.A. Weekly).

Irène Jacob
Actress

Irène Jacob
Actress
Irène's first cinematic role was in Louis Malle's “Au Revoir les Enfants”.

Nicolas Philibert
Writer and director

Nicolas Philibert
Writer and director
Internationally recognised documentary-maker Nicolas Philibert directed his first feature-length documentary in 1978, “La voix de son maître (His Master's Voice)”, where twelve captains of industry (L'Oréal, IMB, Thomson, Elf, etc.) discuss power, hierarchy and leadership, gradually depicting a world that is dominated by finance.