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Camp 4Science Mentors

AFO60 (2025)

  • Jessica Harrop

    Jessica Harrop is an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning documentary filmmaker who has dedicated her career to inspiring passion about
    science through film.

  • Ivo Bystřičan

    Ivo Bystřičan (1980), director and dramaturg, graduate of sociology and social work at the Faculty of Social Sciences MU and documentary filmmaking at FAMU.

  • Kumjana Novakova

    Kumjana is a research-based filmmaker working also as a film curator and lecturer.

  • Katerina Cizek

    Katerina Cizek is an influential figure in international media, with over 25 years of experience as a Peabody- and Emmy-winning documentarian, author, producer, and senior leader working with collective processes and emergent technologies.

  • Jan Gogola ml.

    Director, dramaturg, lecturer at the Audiovisual Arts of FMK UTB in Zlín. He perceives the so-called documentary film as a multi-genre phenomenon transforming reality: analysis, diary, essay, happening, intervention, performance, poetry, portrait, video art, research…

  • Lee Constable

    Lee is a science and climate communicator, writer, TV host, panel moderator, script-writer, director and producer.

  • Maria Bonsanti

    Maria Bonsanti has been at the service of creative documentary film for over twenty years. She joined the Festival dei Popoli in Florence as a programmer in 2000, was appointed its co-director in 2012 and is still associated with this long-established institution as a member of the board of directors.

AFO59 (2024)

  • Jessica Harrop

    Jessica Harrop is an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning documentary filmmaker who has dedicated her career to inspiring passion about
    science through film.

  • Ivo Bystřičan

    Ivo Bystřičan (1980), director and dramaturg, graduate of sociology and social work at the Faculty of Social Sciences MU and documentary filmmaking at FAMU.

  • Kumjana Novakova

    Kumjana is a research-based filmmaker working also as a film curator and lecturer.

  • Katerina Cizek

    Katerina Cizek is an influential figure in international media, with over 25 years of experience as a Peabody- and Emmy-winning documentarian, author, producer, and senior leader working with collective processes and emergent technologies.

  • Hannah Critchlow

    Dr Hannah Critchlow is an internationally-acclaimed neuroscientist, broadcaster, author and Fellow at Magdalene College, University of Cambridge.
     
  • Adam Karásek

    Co-founded consulting company Planet A Collective in 2021, where he works as a Green Set Consultant. He has worked closely with major Czech television stations (TV Nova, Czech Television) and other production companies (Total HelpArt T.H.A., Xova film, Beginner`s mind, etc.).

AFO58 (2023)

  • Ivo Bystřičan

    Ivo Bystřičan (1980), director and dramaturg, graduate of sociology and social work at the Faculty of Social Sciences MU and documentary filmmaking at FAMU.

  • Jessica Harrop

    Jessica Harrop is an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning documentary filmmaker who has dedicated her career to inspiring passion about
    science through film.

  • Kumjana Novakova

    Kumjana is a research-based filmmaker working also as a film curator and lecturer.

  • Monika Aksamit Koperska

    Monika Koperska has a doctorate in chemistry, a graduate of Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, and the Université des Sciences et Technologies in Lille.

  • Tom Millen

    Tom Millen is a Director of Crossover Labs specializing in the production and exhibition of immersive content as well as arranging cross-media training and events.

AFO57 (2022)

  • Janet Tobias

    Janet Tobias is an American filmmaker who has won an Emmy Award for her work.

  • Sheila Hayman

    Sheila Hayman has written and directed dozens of documentaries around the world for the BBC, Channel 4, ARTE, Beijing TV and more.

  • Jessica Harrop

    Jessica Harrop is an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning documentary filmmaker who has dedicated her career to inspiring passion about science through film.

  • Monika Aksamit Koperska

    Monika Koperska has a doctorate in chemistry, a graduate of Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, and the Université des Sciences et Technologies in Lille.

  • Tom Millen

    Tom Millen is the director of Crossover Labs, which creates and presents immersive content and organizes training and events focusing on intermedia approaches.

AFO56 (2021)

  • Jessica Harrop

    Jessica Harrop is an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning documentary filmmaker who has dedicated her career to inspiring passion about
    science through film.

  • Maia Krall Fry

    Maia is the Head of Knowledge and Creative Communities at the Wellcome Trust, responsible for growing the diverse network of specialists and creative thinkers across all areas of entertainment and research. 

  • Pauline Mazenod

    Pauline Mazenod is the founder and CEO of Windrose, specialized in the international distribution of documentaries, animation series, fiction series and performances, as well as its Head of Film Acquisitions & Sales. 

  • Sheila Hayman

    Sheila Hayman has written and directed dozens of documentaries around the world for the BBC, Channel 4, ARTE, Beijing TV and more.

  • Tom Millen

    Tom Millen is a Director of Crossover Labs specializing in the production and exhibition of immersive content as well as arranging cross-media training and events.

AFO55 (2020)

  • Tom Millen

    Tom Millen is a Director of Crossover Labs specializing in the production and exhibition of immersive content as well as arranging cross-media training and events.

  • Sheila Hayman

    Sheila Hayman has written and directed dozens of documentaries around the world for the BBC, Channel 4, ARTE, Beijing TV and more.

  • Pauline Mazenod

    Pauline Mazenod is the founder and CEO of Windrose, specialized in the international distribution of documentaries, animation series, fiction series and performances, as well as its Head of Film Acquisitions & Sales. 

  • Maia Krall Fry

    Maia is the Head of Knowledge and Creative Communities at the Wellcome Trust, responsible for growing the diverse network of specialists and creative thinkers across all areas of entertainment and research. 

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Academia Film Olomouc

28. – 3. 5. 2026

61ST INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF SCIENCE DOCUMENTARY FILMS

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Arts Centre of Palacký University
Academia Film Olomouc
Univerzitní 225/3
779 00 Olomouc
Czech Republic

afo@afo.cz

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