Judges: Video Component

Judges for the Video  Component

 

Adam Stephen Kelly

An emerging filmmaker, Adam is also a film journalist, first published in print at age 16. Kelly’s writing, which includes over 700 published articles, interviews, features and reviews, has been read by millions around the world in a variety of outlets, from Ain’t It Cool News to The Layfield Report (the online home of WWE personalities John “Bradshaw” Layfield and Michael Cole). He has conducted interviews with the likes of Sir Roger Moore, Simon Pegg, Ronan Keating and Kelly Brook. He is the writer/director of critically-acclaimed short drama Done In, as well as Marketing Executive at Richwater Films, a British independent film production and financing company.

 

Kelly-Marie Murtha (Director/Producer/Writer)

Kelly-Marie Murtha, born and raised in a small town in Eastern Ontario, got the acting bug while singing and dancing in her high school musicals! She continued on in university where she performed the role of Hermia in A Midsummers Night Dream with a local theatre group.

Since moving to Toronto, Kelly-Marie has performed and starred in numerous award winning films including Eyes Beyond, which won Best Screenplay and Best Actress for Kelly-Marie at the 2010 Horrorfind Weekend Film Festival, The Little Guardian which premiered at the 2008 Cannes Short Film Corner, Rex vs. Singh which took top honours at the 2008 Spinning Wheel (Sikh) Film Festival in Toronto. She also appeared in the CBC TV primetime documentary Air India 182 in which she portrayed Irish nurse Sheila Wall. Most recently, her film Open Window made its world premiere at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival.

Kelly-Marie also has numerous theatre credits, most recently as a cast member of Sex, Relationships and Sometimes …Love which ran at the Poor Alex Theatre in Toronto and where she was awarded Best Female Performer. She also recently starred in the theatrical production A Little Happiness which ran at the Alumnae Theatre in Toronto, from August 9-14, 2011.

2013 has been a busy year with Kelly-Marie stepping behind the camera as director/producer on numerous projects, as well as in front of the camera, with roles in upcoming web series, short films and feature films.

She lives in Toronto with her husband and daughter.

 

Matt Brown

For over 10 years Matt has worked across the UK film industry, he has been nominated from Scottish adventure cameraman of the year, Nominated for BBC producer of the year, he has won a Scottish Bafta plus many other awards, he has worked with some of the top companies in the world, everyone from Coca Cola and Nike to Harper Collins and Shell. Matt’s films have been seen by more than 5 million people around the world and several of his TV shows have generated highest ever TV viewing figures. His work has taken him to over 35 countries across the world and he has had articles published in PC world magazine as well as other large technical publications