Selection Committees 2026

Milton Guillén (b. 1991, Nicaragua) is a visual artist, filmmaker, and senior programmer for the Camden International Film Festival/Points North Institute. Their work explores collaborative non/fictions and political dreamscapes. Milton’s works in performance, film, and installation have screened at the Venice Biennale, Locarno, CPH:DOX, Hot Docs, DOK Leipzig, True/False, and other festivals worldwide. They have received grants from Harvard’s Film Study Center, Tribeca Film Institute, ITVS, and Chicken & Egg, and fellowships from Points North, the Flaherty, and Firelight.

Katy Lena Ndiaye is a filmmaker and producer.
In 2013, she founded IndigoMood Films, a Senegal-based production company conceived as a space for reflection and exploration on cinematic practice, that supports mostly first and second features. For over a decade, IndigoMood Films has been collaborating with artists and filmmakers from diverse routes, with singular grammars, bringing together new narratives. Over the years, Katy Lena has built up a catalog of titles selected or awarded at prestigious international festivals.
As a filmmaker, Katy Lena’s work as well have been awarded and reached audiences around the world, recognized for the distinctiveness of her approach. Her films focus on contemporary Africa and its relationship to history and memory.
Alongside her career in cinema, Katy Lena worked for television, collaborating on over a hundred docs and TV interviews.

NISHTHA JAIN is a celebrated filmmaker from India, best known for her critically acclaimed and multi-award-winning films – Farming the Revolution, The Golden Thread and Gulabi Gang. Jain is a member of the Academy and the winner of the prestigious Chicken & Egg Award. Her work has been celebrated at various film festivals: ‘Filmmaker in Focus’ at Sydney Film Festival 2025; Filmmaker Retrospective: Doc-Cevennes 2025; Filmmaker Tribute at FIDADOC Morocco 2025; Portrait of a Filmmaker at Films Fra Sur, Oslo 2024. She was the Jury Chair at Flahertiana film festival 2025; and jury member at TIDF, Zurich, IDSFFK, Cinema Verité and IDFA as well as selection committees at IDFA Fund and IDFA Forum.