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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 2022 jury is comprised of recording artist BISHI, actor Edwin De La Renta, director Ben Doyle, music journalist Jo Kendall, curator and film distribution professional Delphine Lievens, filmmaker Cherish Oteka and broadcaster and writer Miranda Sawyer.
Read about past winners of the Doc'n Roll Documentary of the Year.
BISHI is a London-born recording artist, composer, producer and broadcaster of Bengali heritage who has released three albums and several EPs to critical acclaim. Her 2021 album Let My Country Awake focuses on dual identities, anti-racism and the search for empathy.
Deploying technology from interactive bodysuits to live coded and mixed reality environments in her live performances, she has collaborated with Tony Visconti, Sean Ono Lennon, Jarvis Cocker and the London Symphony Orchestra. Her song “Dia Ti Maria” appears in the Disney Plus TV series Anna.
A Keychange ambassador, she founded WITCiH (Women in Tech Creative Industries Hub), and curated WITCiH Digital Festival 2021 starring Laurie Anderson and Hannah Peel.
Edwin De La Renta is a London-born actor whose breakout role came in The Informer, a 2019 Warner Brothers thriller co-starring Joel Kinnaman and Rosamund Pike.
Since then he has starred in the Bollywood blockbuster Bharat, alongside Salman Khan, and the arthouse feature The Last Faust opposite Steven Berkoff. Recent credits include Deceit, the 4-part Channel 4 drama, and Season 2 of the Emmy-winning television show Ted Lasso.
An amateur boxer and member of the Film and Artistic Programming team at KOKO Camden, Edwin will next be seen in the forthcoming BBC Film drama Pretty Red Dress, directed by Dionne Edwards.
Ben Doyle (aka Rvbberduck) is director and co-founder of After Party Studios. His 2017 feature documentary debut, KSI: Can't Lose, distributed by Sony Pictures, charted KSI’s transformation from YouTube juggernaut to champion boxer.
Since then, Ben has gone on to direct award-winning content for Adidas, Netflix and The Sidemen, and has hosted talks and workshops at the BFI and elsewhere with the aim of helping a new generation of filmmaking talent find unconventional routes into the industry.
Through working alongside online talent, Ben has honed a sixth sense for what online audiences want to consume, and looks to apply these techniques when helping to develop, commission and direct documentary content.
Jo Kendall is a London-based journalist, editor, podcaster, event host and lecturer, with over two decades of experience working at music magazines since joining Kerrang! in 1999.
Prior to that, she spent 10 years as a gig promoter and DJ, worked in record shops, and held warehouse and press assistant roles at Sub Pop’s UK arm.
Jo has been pranked by Jim Root from Slipknot, had tea with Robert Fripp, hung out in Bill Bailey’s shed, asked Suzi Quatro what one wears beneath a leather catsuit, and talked pipes and zucchini with legendary bassist Derek Smalls of This is Spinal Tap, her favourite film of all time.
Delphine Lievens is a film distribution executive and curator, and a board member of Live Cinema UK.
An advocate for diversity in film, Delphine has “always been passionate about working on the theatrical releases of films that tell the stories of under-represented filmmakers, and believe that it is crucial to show balanced representation in the UK film landscape”. At Bohemia Media, she helped bring acclaimed films including Rebel Dread and Queen of Glory to UK screens.
Dephine was most recently Head of Distribution at Bohemia Media. Prior to that, she was a senior box office analyst at Gower Street Analytics, and has also worked at Altitude Films as a theatrical sales executive.
Cherish Oteka is a BAFTA Award-winning filmmaker who, as a producer, director and writer of documentary films, video games and television, is passionate about telling universal stories through the lens of underrepresented communities.
Winner of UKTV’s Rising Star Award in 2016, Cherish claimed Best Documentary at the Movie Screen and Video Awards the following year. They have worked with broadcasters and brands including BBC One, London Live, SBTV, Tate, Stonewall, BBC Digital and The Guardian.
Cherish has been chosen to participate in high-profile new talent schemes including Edinburgh Television Festival’s Ones to Watch, Sheffield Documentary Festival’s Doc Next and The Grierson Trust’s Doc Lab.
Miranda Sawyer began her music journalism career at Smash Hits, later winning the 1993 PPA Magazine Writer of the Year Award at Select magazine. In 2012 she received Record of the Day’s Outstanding Contribution to Music Journalism award.
A feature writer for The Observer for almost 20 years, she is the Sunday paper’s audio critic and writes regularly on pop culture. She has written and presented TV and radio documentaries for the BBC and Channel 4, and presents BBC Radio 6Music’s Sound and Vision.
She is author of Park and Ride: Adventures in Suburbia, and Out of Time: Midlife, If You Still Think You’re Young. Her third book will be published in 2023.