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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 2026 jury is comprised of producer and curator Elizabeth Pauker, broadcaster Flo Dill, artist and musician Gina Birch, artist and designer Jonny Banger, cultural curator, director, writer and broadcaster Nina Kehagia, and photographer, broadcaster and cultural commentator Normski.

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ELIZABETH PAUKER

Elizabeth Pauker is a documentary filmmaker with a passion for creating insightful and moving female-centered stories. She has created hundreds of documentaries for The Criterion Collection about film history and the art of cinema. In 2018, Elizabeth produced Death Metal Grandma, about a 95-year-old Holocaust survivor who sings death metal. The film premiered at the SXSW Film Festival and was acquired by The New York Times Op-Docs. Also in 2018, Elizabeth produced the feature-length documentary I Am the Revolution, about feminist movements emerging in Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan.

FLO DILL

Flo Dill is a broadcaster and DJ from London. For the last 5 years she has hosted the breakfast show on NTS, the flagship programme of the cult music radio platform. Every morning she plays 2 hours of music from across the genre spectrum, including a large percentage of niche music not available on streaming platforms, though she has no fear of pop. Folk, jazz and garage rock are all as likely as brand new alternative and electronic music, and all are brought together with her signature warm and unpatronising hosting style. Outside of the radio show, she has DJed in clubs and at festivals across the world.

GINA BIRCH

Founder member of The Raincoats, Gina Birch has brought several musical line-ups to life, including Dorothy with Vicky Aspinall, and her band The Hangovers with Joe Dilworth, ida Akesson, John Frennet, and Simon Fisher Turner. She is currently signed to Third Man Records as Gina Birch. Gina has directed a multitude of music videos, art film s and two documentaries. As painter and filmmaker her work has been seen in many parts of Europe, Japan and the USA.

Photo credit Eva Vermandel

JONNY BANGER

Jonny is a British artist and designer known for his satirical take on British pop culture, fashion, class and politics. He founded Sports Banger in 2013 and has since exhibited at venues including the ICA, Barbican, William Morris Gallery and Vienna’s MAK. His work spans art, fashion, publishing and rave culture, often combining humour with social and political commentary. He currently runs a radical art studio and independent publishing house in Tottenham, London.

NINA KEHAGIA

Nina Kehagia is a cultural curator, researcher and broadcaster specialising in dance music culture. With over 17 years of experience across music, culture and media, she has curated editorial projects, content, events and cultural initiatives that connect audiences with artists, music, ideas and contemporary culture.

Throughout her career, Nina has hosted interviews, panel discussions and conversations with artists and cultural figures including Suzanne Ciani, Laurent Garnier, DJ Paulette, Andrew Weatherall, Stacey 'Hotwaxx' Hale and HAAi.

Nina is currently developing her first feature documentary, Mersey Rave, a women-led film celebrating the people, communities and spaces that have shaped Liverpool's dance music scene.

She is also a PhD researcher at the University of Liverpool, leads content and communications at shesaid.so, and hosts Devil's Dancers, a monthly show on London's award-winning Resonance 104.4 FM

NORMSKI

Normski is a British photographer, broadcaster and cultural commentator whose career spans music, television, fashion and journalism. A key chronicler of hip-hop and Black British culture, he has photographed artists including Public Enemy, N.W.A., De La Soul, Goldie and Wu-Tang Clan. His work is held in the permanent collections of the V&A and the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. He is also known for presenting the groundbreaking BBC music show Dance Energy and is the author of Normski: Man With The Golden Shutter.