Judging Panel
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Director of Programming, Fantastic Fest; Programmer Sitges Film Festival; Executive Director Frontieres Born in Geneva, Annick Mahnert studied film production at the NYFA and worked as a production assistant at Roger Corman’s Concorde-New Horizons. Back in Switzerland, she went on to work in distribution and programming at 20th Century Fox, Warner Bros., Pathé Cinémas and Frenetic Films. Early 2012 she moved to Paris to join the renowned sales agency Celluloid Dreams, handling sales and acquisitions. Since 2013, she is working as a freelance producer, acquisitions consultant and festival. Annick coproduced Alexandre O. Philippe’s documentaries 78/52, Leap of Faith: William Friedkin on the Exorcist and Memory: The Origins of Alien and produced Edgar Nito’s Huachicolero and Mattie Do’s The Long Walk. Annick Mahnert is a programmer at the Sitges Festival Internacional de Cinema Fantastic de Catalunya and the European Fantastic Film Festival of Strasbourg, the Director of Programming at Fantastic Fest in Austin and the Executive Director of the Frontières Co-Production Market. She is a member of the European Film Academy.
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Jonah Rabb is an agent at WME specializing in film sales, financing, and packaging. Before joining WME, he worked at CAA Media Finance and Searchlight Pictures. He works across sales and representation, focusing on US indies and global cinema.
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Mitch is a Wiradjuri producer who started his producing career with ABC3 Kid’s show, Move It Mob Style, then four series of Colour Theory with Richard Bell and Tony Albert. He wrote and produced Servant or Slave, produced Warwick Thornton’s documentary television series, The Beach, and produced the first Indigenous official co production between Australia and New Zealand, We Are Still Here, which opened the Sydney Film Festival, was selected for the Toronto International Film Festival and went on to win the Best Narrative Feature film at ImagineNative Film Festival. Mitch recently produced societal thriller and psychological horror, The Moogai with Director Jon Bell and Causeway Films (The Babadook, Talk To Me) and was officially selected for competition in the Midnight Section of the prestigious Sundance Film Festival for 2024, and won the audience award for Best Australian Feature at the Sydney Film Festival in 2024, and CinefestOz’s Best Australian Feature Film with a $100k cash prize.
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