We’re lining up an exciting panel of big-name judges who will be judging the films or presenting the prizes in 2008.

Here are details on the panel we had for 2007:

Nick Park – Four-time Academy Award winner with his much-loved creations Wallace and Gromit, Nick Park CBE began making films in his parents’ attic when he was 13. One of his earliest works, Archie’s Concrete Nightmare, shot on standard 8 mm film, was shown on BBC Television in 1975. Nick earned a BA in Communication Arts at Sheffield Art School in 1980 before moving to the National Film & Television School, Beaconsfield. He joined Aardman in 1985, launching Wallace and Gromit in A Grand Day Out. Nick’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning portfolio includes Creature Comforts, Chicken Run and The Curse of the Were-Rabbit.

Norman Stone – Once the BBC’s youngest producer and director, Norman Stone has more than 30 years’ experience in television and film. His career was firmly established in 1984 when he invented, developed and directed Shadowlands for BBC1, winning two BAFTA awards, an International Emmy, and the Prague d’Or for Best Director. Other awards include a BAFTA for an Omnibus special on the life of Dudley Moore, After the Laughter; an Andrew Cross Award for the documentary The Tartan Pimpernel; and a Golden Remi for his first feature film Man Dancin’, which he created and directed in his home town of Glasgow.

Jean-Claude Bragard – At London Weekend Television Jean-Claude Bragard made a series on the nature of evil and the future of religion. At the BBC he was the series producer of the 2001 award-winning Son of God. Five years later, he produced the BBC’s Miracles of Jesus, a series presented by Rageh Omaar. With this weight of specialist experience, Jean-Claude is the Executive Producer of a range of historical, biblical and contemporary programmes about religion. His recent projects include documentaries on the lost Gospels and the Dead Sea Scrolls, and Extreme Pilgrim, a series with Peter Owen Jones.

Martin Kiszko – With more than 200 film and television soundtrack credits, and seven albums released with Europe’s leading orchestras, Martin Kiszko’s award-winning scores include the BBC’s Realms of the Russian Bear, and the soundtrack for the Dreamwork’s promo commissioned by the BBC NHU and Steven Spielberg. Among his most recent work is a new cantata for soloist, orchestra, choir and film, A Radius of Curves. Martin, who has a parallel career in screenwriting, was music consultant on Aardman’s The Curse of the Were-Rabbit computer game, and he wrote the score for the major movie The Killing of John Lennon released in December 2007.

More information coming soon …

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