Kate Ashfield is an award-winning actress and writer. She's best known for playing Liz in Shaun of the Dead and has a phenomenal career spanning nearly 30 years in the industry. She wrote and created Born to Kill for Channel 4 and Man in Room 301 amongst others.

Sali is a journalist, writer and broadcaster specialising in women's issues and film. She is the beauty editor of The Guardian and was nominated as columnist of the year for her work on Empire Magazine. Her YouTube Series "In the Bathroom With.." has won three industry awards. She is also the co-founder of Beauty Banks - an award winning charity that aims to end hygiene poverty.

Olly Richards has been a film critic and  journalist for almost 20 years. Outlets he has worked for includes The Sunday Times, The Observer, The Telegraph, Time Out, GQ and NME. He regularly reviews for Empire and has interviewed all the greats, from Cate Blanchett to Lin Manuel Miranda, Bill Murray to Viola Davis. He also has a copy writing career that has seen him work with Apple, HBO and 20th Century Fox among others.

Jill Robertson cut her teeth on films such as Trainspotting ans Saving Grace and now excels in directing television. She has Grantchester, Pennyworth and The Diplomant among her credits.

Kahleen Crawford started working in casting in 2000, setting up her own company in 2006. She has been casting Ken Loach’s films since 2003, including Sorry We Missed You and I, Daniel Blake. 

Kahleen’s other recent feature film credits include Living directed by Oliver Hermanus and Maggie Gyllenhaal’s directorial debut The Lost Daughter.

Recent television includes Kudos/BBC’s SAS: Rogue Heroes, two series of Screw and Sky Atlantic’s acclaimed drama I Hate Suzie created by Billie Piper and Lucy Prebble.

Hails from Armagh in Northern Ireland and is a twice Academy Award nominated cinematographer. 

He began as a stills photographer but in 1998 became the youngest member of the British Society of Cinematographers. He’s won three Evening Standard Awards - for Anna Karenina, The Hours and Atonement - and six Irish Film and Television Awards. We are very excited to have him on board as a judge. 

Annabelle Mullen was born and raised in Río Piedras, Puerto Rico. She attended Georgetown University, then studied law at the University of Puerto Rico and completed her MBA at the University of Miami. A lawyer by profession, and a producer by vocation; since 2009, she produces fiction and documentaries. In 2013, she was invited into the Directors' Guild of America. Her company - Belle Films (Puerto Rico and Spain) develops content in an artisanal way by women, about women for women. We are delighted to welcome yet another industry professional to join our judging panel.