"My name is Hailie and I am a director, producer and assistant director. I love storytelling and analysing the elements of different content (e.g colour, shots/angles and what they indicate and much more) I love looking in depth to see background choices which might add more context and detail to the project and add a twist almost, and I in general have never had as big of a passion in my life as I have with media. It is something I have found myself and wasn't persuaded into by others, and I have stuck to it no matter the struggles I face, so getting the chance to put myself in different opportunities and be able to view content and judge them (not just making them myself) will help me encourage others but also inspire myself.

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I want to judge because I have a great passion to help people, and I love to see people succeed. I encourage but also give constructive criticism. I am currently working to adapt my own work currently into an opportunity to help other media practitioners get opportunities, advice and support in any way possible."

"My background within media is I am a tv shopping producer, where I run 2 shows a day Monday-Friday! I love working in media as it gives me a chance to make content every week being super creative with my shows.

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I’d love to be a judge because I work in sales producing so I’d love to see the different creative ways people try and sell things in adverts (might help me learn some new techniques also 😉)."

Chris is co-founder and lead developer of CinePlatform, an Professional Production Suite to manage film productions in one easy to use and intuitive suite. Chris has had a 15 year career as a professional stills photographer, before his first film as Director Of Photography on a feature film in 2009, since then has become a camera operator, steadicam operator and is constantly learning everything he can about every aspect of cinematography. In the last year has worked as DoP on nearly a dozen short films, with half a dozen more and 2 features currently in the pipeline. 

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"I wanted to be a judge for Ad-Poclpyse because he feels he can look at a film objectively and give good feedback."

John Seymour is a writer, actor and creative writing teacher and mentor from Newcastle-upon-Tyne.  He is an award-winning playwright, his work for theatre having been performed around the world.  He's also a writer of prose, specialising in short stories, a number of which have been published in print and online.  More recently, he has branched into writing scripts for film.  He runs his own business, Write Now, teaching creative writing and helping other writers get the best out of their own writing projects.  In his spare time, he's currently enjoying learning about filmmaking and experimenting in making his own short films.

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"I didn't have time to submit a film of my own, but still wanted to be involved in the challenge to support NFC. Being a judge will help my own filmmaking journey as I'm learning as much as I can about filmmaking, and part of that is seeing how other people approach film challenges, their creative decisions, their use of imagination and the filmmaking methods they use. At NFC, we learn from each other and being a judge will really help with that. Plus, it'll be fun!