An independant, multi-faith judging panel has been selected:

Rachael Kohn  |  Religious studies  |  ABC Radio National's The Spirit of Things broadcaster

Amiel Courtin-Wilson  |  Filmmaker  |  Director, Bastardy

Peter Horsfield  |  Religious media |  Assoc Professor, Media & Communication, RMIT Uni

Mikael Smith  |  Indigenous  |  Aboriginal representative for the Parliament of the World's Religions

Jonathan Keren-Black  |  Judaism  |  Rabbi - Founder, GreenFaith Australia

Nandhini Nagaratnam  |  Hinduism  |  Writer & artist

Mohammed El-leissy  |  Islam  |  Filmmaker

Freeman Trebilcock  |  Buddhism  |  Secretary, Loving Kindness Peaceful Youth, Qld

Peter Taylor  |  Atheist/agnostic  |  PR Team member, Atheist Foundation of Australia Inc

Kath Engebretson  |  Christian (Catholic)  |  Associate Professor, Religious Education, Aust Catholic Uni

Chris Perona  |  Christian (Presbyterian)  |  Presbyterian minister, Brisbane

Organising Team

Campfire Awards is organised by a team of volunteers:

Richard Leigh (director)

Richard is the director of the Campfire Film Festival and in-house producer at Image Control. He is particularly excited about the Campfire Awards going LIVE at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image and seeing short films of spiritual significance start to get the attention they deserve.

Dahlia Rahman

Dahlia is on the Youth Plenary team for the Parliament of World’s Religions Conference 2009. In 2008 she helped coordinate the Emerging Writers Festival and completed the Muslim Youth Leadership Program jointly run by the Islamic Council of Victoria and La Trobe University.

Virginia Kay

Virginia has been producing film for over seven years, including feature length documentary, music video, short film, experimental film and commercial work. In July 2009 she was the Bar and Restaurant Sponsor Coordinator for the Melbourne International Film Festival, and MIFF Short Awards floor manager.

Dan Koerner

Dan is a multi-disciplinary director with Plot Films. Having emerged from the dance world, Dan specialises in applying the aesthetic of human movement and celebration into moving image media. His music videos have been screened on ABC’s RAGE and in festivals around the world.

Gavin Baulch

Rev. Gavin Baulch has taught story-telling world-wide via film-intensives, empowering those

without a voice. As Offline Projects Director of Campfire, Exec. Director and Producer of several short films and documentaries, served on the Board of Movieguide in Los Angeles, Gavin believes that all good stories come from our heart and soul.