Antenna Documentary Film Festival

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Features Jury

NANTUCKET, MA - JUNE 29: (L-R) Directors Steve James, Rory Kennedy and Nantucket Film Festival Program director Basil Tsiokos attend The 19th Annual Nantucket Film Festival on June 29, 2014 in Nantucket, Massachusetts.  (Photo by Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Nantucket Film Festival)

Basil Tsiokos

Basil Tsiokos is a Senior Programmer for the Sundance Film Festival, focusing on nonfiction features. He was previously the longtime Director of Programming for DOC NYC and the Nantucket Film Festival, and before that the Artistic and Executive Director of NewFest. Basil has regularly served on the feature nominations committees for the International Documentary Association’s IDA Awards and Cinema Eye Honors, as well as the advisory board for the SXSW Film Festival. He has written about documentaries since 2010 on what (not) to doc. Basil holds a Masters degree from New York University and two undergraduate degrees from Stanford University.

Maya Newell

Maya Newell is a director and impact producer from the Unquiet Collective based on Gadigal Wangal Country. Her recent short, The Dreamlife of Georgie Stone (2022), a Netflix Original premiered at Tribeca, was on the IDA Award shortlist and was nominated for a Peabody Award. She directed In My Blood It Runs (2019), which was a New York Times “Critics Pick”, won an AACTA Award for Best Direction and led a campaign that saw the 12 yr old star become the youngest person to address the United Nations, Human Rights Council in support of raising the age of criminal responsibility. Her first feature, Gayby Baby (2015) was banned by the NSW gov and sparked a national conversation on children in LGBTIQ families.

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Hannah Buck

Hannah Buck

Hannah Buck is an award winning film editor with a focus on creative non-fiction and experimental forms. Her films have screened all over the world, including at Sundance, MoMA, Berlinale, TATE Modern, Tribeca and CPHdox. Recent editing credits include Lana Wilson’s Look Into My Eyes (Sundance 2024) for which she received a Cinema Eye Honors nomination for best editing; Penny Lane’s Confessions of a Good Samaritan (SXSW 2023) for which she won the Karen Schmeer Excellence in Documentary Editing Award; Invisible Beauty (Sundance 2023) directed by Bethann Hardison and Frédéric Tcheng; and Searchers (Sundance 2021) directed by Pacho Velez. Hannah has served as consulting editor on several projects including Sundance grand jury prize winner I Didn’t See You There (Sundance 2021) and The American Sector (Berlinale 2020), as well as for initiatives such as the Sundance Art of Non-Fiction Program, Field of Vision Labs, UnionDocs Labs and more. Hannah currently works between Sydney, Los Angeles and New York.

Shorts Jury

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Elliot Magen

Elliott Magen is a film editor based on Cameraygal land. He has a passion for projects with a social conscience, that challenge conventional modes of storytelling through documentary, scripted and multi-screen video installations. He recently worked as Editor/EP of the feature documentary Make It Look Real (Dir: Kate Blackmore) which will have its International Premiere at SXSW 2025 (Documentary Spotlight). He won an Australian Screen Editor Award for The Glass Bedroom (Dir: Kate Blackmore, 2017) and was nominated for an Australian Screen Editor Award with the Editing team of The Australian Wars – Episode 3 (Dir: Rachel Perkins, 2022). He also edited the 2022 AACTA Award winning short Finding Jedda (Dir: Tanith Glynn-Maloney, 2021) and Coral: Rekindling Venus (Dir: Lynette Wallworth, 2012) which screened at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival.

Rowena Potts

Rowena Potts is an award-winning documentary filmmaker with a Ph.D. in Anthropology from New York University. Her research interests and creative practice are grounded in visual anthropology,

the study of media histories, media practices and media worlds, and speculative ethnography. She is a co-founder (with Ceridwen Dovey) of the Archival Futures Collective, a collaborative initiative dedicated to creating experimental media inspired by the archives and research collections of museums, libraries and cultural institutions around the world. Rowena is currently Lecturer in Creative Practice at the Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS).

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