{"id":39015,"date":"2025-11-11T11:28:44","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T10:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fifdh.org\/?p=39015"},"modified":"2025-11-18T10:23:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T09:23:06","slug":"impact-days-2026-selection-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fifdh.org\/en\/pro\/news\/impact-days-2026-selection-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"Impact Days 2026 selection committee"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We\u2019d like to say a big thank you to this year\u2019s selection committee. Together with FIFDH Editorial Co-director Laura Longobardi, and Head of Impact Days Ana Casta\u00f1osa, these four international impact practitioners had to spend many hours making difficult choices! <\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
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Abeer Bayazidi (Jordan)<\/strong>
Founder and Impact Director, Common Good
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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.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u200b\u200bMarco Cartolano (Argentina)<\/strong>
Impact Producer and Communications Strategist<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marco Cartolano is an Argentine impact producer and communications strategist based between Bogot\u00e1 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<\/em> and Sumerc\u00e9<\/em> (both by Victoria Solano)\u2014with 9.70<\/em> recognized by Doc Society as a global case study\u2014and has led impact workshops in Colombia, Uruguay, and Argentina.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Prince Odera Onyore Nyambok II (Kenya)<\/strong>
Communications and Outreach Manager, DocA \u2013 Documentary Africa<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prince <\/em>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<\/em> on Citizen TV and KBC Channel 1 and created its spin-off, Connect Edition<\/em>. He is currently the Communications & Outreach Manager at DocA \u2013 Documentary Africa,<\/a> where he co-designed the Real Reel Impact (RRI) Program and produces impact campaigns for films such as Our Land, Our Freedom<\/a><\/em> and Battle for Laikipia<\/a><\/em>. Beyond film, he founded MAD Royal Entertainment and the music IP rights platform MAIQCHECK<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Lea Maria Strandb\u00e6k S\u00f8rensen (Denmark<\/strong>)<\/strong>
Head of Industry, Nordisk Panorama<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lea Maria Strandb\u00e6k S\u00f8rensen <\/strong>is the Head of Industry at Nordisk Panorama<\/a>. She is responsible for the planning and execution of Nordisk Panorama\u2019s 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. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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This year – for the first time! – we also submitted a long-list of preselected projects to several organisations working on human rights, social justice and the environment. Thank you to our NGO friends for their expert feedback :<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fabrice Boul\u00e9, Caritas<\/a><\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2060Maria Sologianni, FIDH<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gurchaten Sandhu – Nanoo, ILGA World<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elise Golay, ISHR<\/a><\/strong>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Liliana J\u00e1uregui, IUCN Netherlands<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anja Tresse, Alexandre Najib El Meouchi & Maud Roure, Kofi Annan Foundation<\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carrie Shelver, Sexual Rights Initiative<\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tay Blyth-Kubota, UNICEF<\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Natalie Bailey, HRP at WHO<\/a><\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our friends at WILPF<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With just a few days to go before we announce our Impact Days 2026 selection, we\u2019d like to say a big thank you to this year\u2019s selection committee. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39020,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,26],"class_list":["post-39015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fifdh","category-pro"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fifdh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fifdh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fifdh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fifdh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fifdh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39015"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/fifdh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39467,"href":"https:\/\/fifdh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39015\/revisions\/39467"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fifdh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fifdh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fifdh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}