Best Documentary
Winner: AGE OF STUPID directed by Franny Armstrong
Presented by: Zina Saro-Wiwa
Jury: Libby Brooks (The Guardian), Heather Croall (Sheffield Documentary Film Festival), Daisy Asquith (Director, Clowns), Andy Glynne (One World Broadcasting Trust)
Andy Glynne
Andy has produced and directed numerous award-winning creative documentaries for major UK broadcasters, and was responsible for setting up dedicated TV strands for New Talent such as Reel London. He is the director of The One World Broadcasting Trust and set up the One World Media Fund, an initiative to help new and emerging filmmakers, radio and print journalist to tell untold stories from and about the Developing Word. Andy is also the Chief Executive of the Documentary Filmmakers Group and wrote the acclaimed book ‘Documentaries and How to Make Them’.
Heather Croall
Heather is the current director of Sheffield International Doc Fest. Croall has been actively involved in the Australian documentary industry producing and directing, curating and mentoring alongside establishing her company Re Angle Pictures. Her SBS/Channel 4 documentary 'Paradise Bent: Boys will be Girls in Samoa' won a number of awards including the Silver Plaque at the Chicago International Film Festival.
Daisy Asquith
Daisy has been making documentaries for 11 years. Her first film, made at the age of 21, was the BAFTA nominated '15' about teenagers in South London. She followed it with an acclaimed series of films about arranged marriages shot in Pakistan, 'Marrying a Stranger'. She is currently working on a BBC4 film about Liz Smith going on a cruise and the long-term Channel 4 project 'My New Home' about immigrant children settling in Britain. Daisy has won a number of prestigious awards for her work, including RTS Best Documentary Series for two years running and a Grierson award for Best Newcomer. Her most recent film 'Clowns' was on the Grierson 2008 shortlist.
Libby Brooks
Libby was born in Glasgow and studied law at Oxford University. She joined The Guardian newspaper in 1998, and worked as a feature writer and Women’s Editor. She won the Catherine Packenham Award for young women writers in 1996, and was named Young Journalist of the Year by the British Press Awards in 1998. Libby the author of ‘The Story of Childhood: growing up in modern Britain’.
