2022 Human Rights Jury

Best Narrative | Best Documentary | Best Short | Emerging Filmmaker Prize | Building Bridges Prize | Human Rights Prize

2022 Human Rights Jurors

• Nancy Buirski
  Film Director, Producer & Writer
  Credited with innumerable documentary film and TV projects, Nancy Buirski is an award-­winning director/producer/writer whose earlier projects include A Crime on the Bayou (2020 AJFF); By Sidney Lumet (2015, American Masters; 2016 AJFF); and The Loving Story (2011, HBO). Nancy founded the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in collaboration with Duke University.
• Naomi Kikoler
  Director, Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide
  Attorney Naomi Kikoler focuses and writes on human rights, and genocide prevention; bearing witness endeavors; and efforts under the 2005 UN principle of Responsibility to Protect (R2P) that advocates around crises and at-risk populations. National security and refugee law and policy for Amnesty International Canada are also among her areas of expertise.
• Preston Bourquine
  Student, Kennesaw State University
  Preston Bourquine, pursuing a bachelor’s degree in English with minors in film studies and professional writing at Kennesaw State University, enjoys his TV and film screenwriting classes the most. He works at the KSU Museum of History and Holocaust Education as a student assistant, and plans to pursue a career in writing, hopefully for animated projects.

Films in Consideration

• Ahed’s Knee
• Blue Box
• The Crossing
• Death of Zygielboym
• Women of Valor