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The Big Syn Institute is honoured and proud to have international luminaries from the world of film, media and academia as judges of the 2020 Big Syn International Film Festival.
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Emma Thomas
BAFTA Award-winning Script Supervisor
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Prof. André Singer, OBE
Emmy Award-winning Director & Producer | Anthropologist
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Prof. Victoria Mapplebeck
BAFTA Award-winning Writer, Director, Artist
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Patrick Aryee
Wildlife TV Presenter | Digital Content Producer
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Prof. Lyndsay Duthie
CEO, The Production Guild of Great Britain
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Prof. Ioannis Ioannou
London Business School | Global influencer – Sustainability leadership and CSR
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Prof. Marion Schmid
University of Edinburgh | School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures
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Gerardo Silano
Writer, Director, Producer
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