Doc'n Roll Films - Festival Jury

Festival Jury

Each year Doc'n Roll invites an all-star group of music and film lovers to help cap off our London event by awarding the Doc'n Roll Jury Award for Documentary of the Year.

Our 2024 jury is comprised of CPH:DOX Film Festival Programmer Adam Thorsmark, actress and director Caroline Catz, music journalist and writer Daniel Dylan Wray, DJ and writer DJ Paulette, features editor for Dazed Digital Günseli Yalcinkaya, and broadcaster Nihal Arthanayake.

Read about past winners of the Doc'n Roll Documentary of the Year.

ADAM THORSMARK

Senior programmer at CPH:DOX, Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival (March 19 - 30, 2025) and head of the festival’s music program (concerts and music films) since starting at CPH:DOX in 2011. He also spearheads the festival's big nationwide initiative of local documentary festivals called DOX: DENMARK. Adam has a master's degree in Film and Media Studies from Copenhagen University and he worked as an editorial staff member at Denmark’s leading music and culture website Soundvenue before coming to CPH:DOX. A

CAROLINE CATZ

Caroline Catz is an Actor/director/screenwriter. As an actor, Caroline has worked extensively across television, theatre, film, and radio. As a director, her film, Delia Derbyshire: the Myths and the Legendary Tapes which she also wrote and starred in, had its acclaimed premiere at the BFI London Film Festival ahead of its BBC broadcast. The film has won several prestigious awards including the SXSW - Special Jury Prize: The Adam Yauch Hörnblower Award.

DANIEL DYLAN WRAY

Daniel Dylan Wray is a freelance music and culture writer based in Sheffield. He regularly writes for The Guardian and his work can also be found at the BBC, Pitchfork, Uncut, The Quietus, Bandcamp Daily, Mixmag, Dazed, AnOther, Huck, Loud & Quiet, DJ Mag, the i, VICE, New Statseman, Yorkshire Post, Sheffield Tribune and various other places.

DJ PAULETTE

Known worldwide from Glitterbox to Hacienda and Glastonbury to Homobloc, from Reform Radio to Gilles Peterson’s WorldWide FM and BBC 6 Music, and the author of ‘Welcome To The Club’
on Manchester University Press, Paulette is an effortless selector, a party starter, a lightning rod, and a good troublemaker

GÜNSELI YALCINKAYA

Günseli Yalcinkaya is a writer, researcher, and internet folklorist currently based in London. Her practice spans internet culture, music, and technology, with a particular focus on the myths and ideologies embedded within these systems. Yalcinkaya is co-curator of Cybernetic Serendipity: Towards AI, a day-long symposium that took place at London's ICA in February 2024 and has appeared in talks and panels at the Architectural Association, BFI, Central Saint Martins, London College of Fashion, Somerset House, Sónar+D, Unsound Festival, and X Museum.

NIHAL ARTHANAYAKE

Nihal Arthanayake is an acclaimed broadcaster and author. Starting his career over twenty years ago on radio and becoming one of the best-known voices on Radio 1, he presented Radio 5 Live’s Afternoon Show: Nihal Arthanayake. He will now front a new Sunday evening show on 5Live (8pm -10pm) for unrivalled long form interviews into the worlds of art, books, sport, music, film and TV. His extensive knowledge of music, and inimitable storytelling enable him to secure outstanding features for his radio shows and his unique interviewing style has been recognised at the BBC Radio and Music Awards where he won Interview of the Year. He is a regular face on television and has also made several documentaries for BBC Radio 4 and the BBC
World Service. Nihal is also the author of Let's Talk: How to Have Better Conversations, published in 2022 and has a new book due to be released in 2025.