Anne Aghion

Jury Member

Anne Aghion is best known for her series of four documentaries on post- genocide justice and social reconstruction in Rwanda, including the 2009 feature My Neighbor My Killer. The film competed at the Cannes Film Festival and the Gotham Awards, and earned Aghion the Nestor Almendros Award for courage in filmmaking at the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival. Aghion is a speaker at universities and a panelist and juror at film festivals, including for L’Oeil d’or—the documentary prize at Cannes— and at IDFA. She regularly conducts documentary film production and writing workshops at film schools and other venues around the world. Aghion is an Emmy winner and the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. She was a resident at the MacDowell Colony in 2011, at the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center in 2012, on a Fulbright-Nehru Fellowship in India in 2014, at the Camargo Foundation in France in 2016, and at the Bogliasco Foundation in Italy in 2019, to develop and research her next feature, Turbulence.

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