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Rabbi Laura is a regular broadcaster on BBC Radio 4’s Thought for the Day, and BBC One’s The Big Questions. Osob Elmi has been a reporter on BBC Points West and in the BBC Nairobi Bureau. Vanessa joined the team before the launch, in 2015, as production editor. She is currently on the BAFTA Elevate 2022-2024 Producer programme.
Mark Warburton
Journalism Judge
Based in Manchester, Mark Warburton is a self-shooting TV Producer Director, trainer and consultant with over 25 years’ experience in TV, radio and digital content-creation including factual, music, religion, children’s, current affairs, education and charities. Mark has extensive experience of live events and OBs, and has led broadcast collaborations with Buckingham Palace, St Paul’s Cathedral, Cabinet Office, Glastonbury, Comic Relief and the NHS.
Mark is also a professional musician and published composer for TV and production music.
Ben Zand
Journalism Judge
Ben Zand is an award-winning British-Iranian filmmaker, journalist, producer and director from Liverpool. Before that he worked as a documentary executive for BBC Studios and was the Editor and Head of the BBC’s documentary bureau, BBC Pop Up.
His work has taken him around the world – meeting some of our most influential, dangerous and fascinating people
Shortlisters
In addition to our judges, we are hugely indebted to our 2024 shortlisters, all of whom lent us their time, energy, enthusiasm and their expertise to the category they were asked to work on.
He is a producer, director and cinematographer with broadcast credits from BBC, ITV, Sky, ARTE and CBC.
Vanessa Harriss
Young Audience Judge
Vanessa Harriss is the editor of the multi-award-winning weekly children’s news magazine, The Week Junior.
Heenan Bhatti
ClockWork Films has been set up by multi award-winning film maker, Heenan Bhatti (BAFTA, RTS, Rose D’Or, Broadcast and Prix Europa), who has made prime time programming in all factual genres for a range of broadcasters.
Series include: The Great British School Swap (C4), Make Bradford British (C4), Paul Merton in India (C5), Derren Brown Investigates (C4) and A Very British Wedding (BBC).
Single films include: 'The Real Gary Glitter' (C4), a study of the dark side of celebrity; 'God's Waiting Room' (C4), a film observing the work of a Muslim undertakers; 'The Lost Frescoes' (C4), following emergency restoration work on the world-renowned frescoes at the Basilica of St Francis in Assisi, Italy, after an earthquake; and 'Mission Impossible' (C4), documenting attempts by a team of forensic scientists to unearth a mass grave in Kosovo, during the Balkans conflict.
Heenan Bhatti’s Post
Director And Executive Producer, ClockWork Films
Very honoured and delighted that ClockWork Films has been awarded a prestigious Sandford St Martin Trustees' Award at tonight's award ceremony for our Channel 4 documentary series Ramadan In Lockdown.
Chosen to represent a broad range of experience, perspectives and backgrounds as well as attitudes to faith, what they have in common is their skill, professionalism and commitment to excellence in broadcasting.
Remona Aly
Radio/Audio Judge
Remona Aly is a journalist, commentator and broadcaster with a focus on faith, lifestyle and identity. Remona writes for The Guardian and other media outlets and is a resident contributor to BBC Radio 2’s Pause for Thought on the Zoe Ball Breakfast show.
He makes thought-provoking documentaries that focus on access and investigations into some of the most controversial characters of our time, such as ‘The Secret World of Incels’ and documentaries that take us to places we may not care to go ourselves, such as ‘Kingpins’. She is an accredited Integral Development Coach and is the former Senior Rabbi to Reform Judaism.
Ben is the founder and CEO of ZANDLAND, an award-winning multi-channel production company based in Liverpool and London. She currently produces work at BBC Verify, incorporating video verification, data analysis and social newsgathering.
Nick Hamer
TV/Video Judge
Nick Hamer is a documentary filmmaker with 20 years’ experience in the industry, and whose work has been screened by major broadcasters, international film festivals and independent cinemas.
He has made prime time programming in all factual genres for a range of broadcasters including ‘The Great British School Swap’, ‘Make Bradford British’, ‘Paul Merton in India’, ‘Derren Brown Investigates’, ‘A Very British Wedding’, ‘The Real Gary Glitter’ and ‘The Lost Frescoes’.
Radzi Chinyanganya
Chair of Young Audience judging panel
Radzi Chinyanganya is a television presenter who started his presenting career on the BBC’s landmark children’s show, Blue Peter, and is now regularly seen on BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Amazon and TNT. He is one of TNT’S leading presenters, working across the Olympics, snooker and athletics, as well as being a regular host of Formula E.
Radzi also works across the factual and entertainment, presenting programmes such as Songs of Praise, Crufts and Good Morning Britain as well as appearing in entertainment shows such as Dancing on Ice, Beat The Chasers and Supermarket Sweep.
His debut book, Move Like a Lion, went to number one in the Amazon Bestseller’s list in early 2021, with Move Like A Cub and Radzi’s Incredible Facts released during 2023.
Tallulah Clark
Young Audience Judge
Tallulah Clark is an aspiring journalist and passionate disability activist.
Among her credits are films for the BBC’s Panorama programme, ITV’s Tonight show, and Channel 4’s Dispatches and Cutting Edge series. Her job was to set the magazine’s tone of voice when addressing a young and curious audience. He currently sits on the Royal Television Society Committee in the North West, as well as the Advisory Board for Creative Access, a social enterprise dedicated to recruiting under-represented talent in the creative industries.
Juliet Riddell
TV/Video judge
Juliet Riddell is head of new formats at the Financial Times and has produced and directed multiple award-winning videos including a Webby, AIB and BAFTA nomination for the FT.
Juliet was previously a multimedia Commissioning Editor at the Guardian, where she executive produced an award-winning short drama, a new YouTube channel and arts, current affairs and documentary series.
Juliet has over 15 years experience as a TV producer, director and development executive; including producing two BAFTA winning arts series with Grayson Perry for C4 and prime time factual programmes for BBC, ITV and Sky Arts.
Ritula Shah
Chair of the Journalism judging panel
Ritula Shah is a journalist and broadcaster and currently hosts ‘Calm Classics’ on Classic FM.
She has worked across a range of programmes on BBC Radio 4 and between 2008-2023 was the lead presenter on Radio 4’s daily news and current affairs programme, ‘The World Tonight’.
Ritula is an advisor to the Royal United Services Institute – the world’s oldest and the UK’s leading defence and security think tank, as well as being a trustee for visual arts organisation INIVA, and an ambassador for the British Asian Trust.
Bushra Siddiq
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TV/Video Judge
Bushra Siddiq is a Producer, Director, and Development Producer who has spent the last 17 years working across both development and production in factual, documentaries, and on flagship news and current affairs programmes.
‘Racist Britain’ – a film she produced for Dispatches in 2016 – was nominated in the Best Investigation category at the Asian Media Awards 2017. In a career of 25 years, she has worked for many newspapers and magazines but highlights include being copy chief at TIME (Europe, Middle East and Asia) and working at Wired UK, explaining complex technologies to a broad readership.
Rabbi Laura Janner-Klausner
Radio/Audio Judge
Rabbi Laura Janner-Klausner is a broadcaster, Executive Coach and rabbi at Bromley Synagogue.
She has a disability called ataxia and is passionate about representation of minority groups and giving those that are misrepresented and unheard a voice.
Tallulah was part of BBC Future Voices, an intensive journalism training scheme providing an insight into life at the BBC and what it takes to be a journalist. With 7 years experience of working in regional, national and international newsrooms across the BBC, she has extensive experience producing a diverse range of work on TV, radio and online stories ranging from knife crime, child poverty, mental health and the Black Lives Matter movement.
Nick has been nominated for a Royal Television Society Award and long listed for a British Independent Film Award for Best Documentary. Before leaving the BBC she was in charge of Religion and Ethics programming for BBC Radio Scotland.