Impact Days 2026 selection committee

Abeer Bayazidi (Jordan)
Founder and Impact Director, Common Good

Abeer Bayazidi is an impact-driven storyteller with over a decade of experience in sustainability and Social corporate responsibility. She draws on her skills in outreach, communication, and training to support environmental and social sustainability initiatives. As the Training and Impact Director at Greener Screen, Abeer works with filmmakers, writers, and content creators to promote sustainable practices and social responsibility in the media and audiovisual industry. In her role as a Sustainability Insight and Content Producer at The Climate Tribe, she provides sustainability insights  to amplify climate action through storytelling. As a co-founder of Common Good, she offers support to projects that integrate the arts with justice and equity. Her directorial work on Finding Oum Al Ghaith showcases her approach to storytelling as a means to address pressing issues and encourage dialogue in the WANA region and beyond.

​​Marco Cartolano (Argentina)
Impact Producer and Communications Strategist

Marco Cartolano is an Argentine impact producer and communications strategist based between Bogotá and Buenos Aires. He co-founded Clementina Films, a company dedicated to issue-driven documentaries and social-change campaigns. He helped design and coordinate the impact for Documental 9.70 and Sumercé (both by Victoria Solano)—with 9.70 recognized by Doc Society as a global case study—and has led impact workshops in Colombia, Uruguay, and Argentina.

Prince Odera Onyore Nyambok II (Kenya)
Communications and Outreach Manager, DocA – Documentary Africa

Prince Odera Onyore Nyambok II is a communications strategist and creative with a background spanning Media, Arts, Entertainment, and Education. From 2013 to 2018, he hosted The Great Debaters Contest on Citizen TV and KBC Channel 1 and created its spin-off, Connect Edition. He is currently the Communications & Outreach Manager at DocA – Documentary Africa, where he co-designed the Real Reel Impact (RRI) Program and produces impact campaigns for films such as Our Land, Our Freedom and Battle for Laikipia. Beyond film, he founded MAD Royal Entertainment and the music IP rights platform MAIQCHECK.

Lea Maria Strandbæk Sørensen (Denmark)
Head of Industry, Nordisk Panorama

Lea Maria Strandbæk Sørensen is the Head of Industry at Nordisk Panorama. She is responsible for the planning and execution of Nordisk Panorama’s Impact and Doc Forward Workshops, providing consultancy on project development and on how to create targeted impact strategies and outreach. Lea has also been the manager of the Nordisk Panorama Forum for Co financing of Documentaries, where she amongst other things handles the forum matchmaking and one-on-one meetings between decision-makers and project teams.