Awards

Currently, Aldana is the Content Director of Pakapaka - the Argentinean Public Channel for Kids - and is one of the professors in the “Children in the Centre – Audio-Visual Postgrad Seminar” at FADU National University UBA. She is a photographer, format developer, scriptwriter and consultant. Member of national and international juries (in Argentina, Japan, Germany, USA, Colombia, Brazil, Chile, Malaysia, South Africa, Netherland, among others). Aldana has created and produced formats and programs for adults and for children. She is a trainer for the projects: "Strong Stories x Strong Children" (PRIX JEUNESSE International) and "WADADA News x Kids" (Free Press Unlimited - Netherlands). She moderates debates and workshops on media and children in media schools, companies and universities in Argentina and abroad. She has won prizes such as the PRIX JEUNESSE Iberoamericano and Divercine UNESCO.

Jim has for the past two decades been producing an innovative program on the nation’s public television known as “Greetings from Abroad”. This TV program took advantage of the ‘digital silence’ in the period to link Ghanaians abroad to their loved ones in Ghana. Fara has also been busying himself lately with documentary research works focusing on indigenous land systems. He is a prolific writer who has published and written several papers on various film topics and has contributed immensely to curricular and to the learning environment at the National Film and Television Institute where he taught for more than two decades. He is the president and founding member of the Ghana Academy of Film and Television Arts (GAFTA), an umbrella body for 10 notable film guilds. He is currently an Adjunct Senior Lecturer at the University of Cape Coast, a Fulbright and holds a PhD. in Endogenous Development.

Silapavet graduated with a M.Sc. in Education Technology and Society at Graduate School of Education, University of Bristol, UK. He holds a position at IPST as academic staff and has participated in the Science Film Festival since 2017. He feels very grateful to be a part of the Science Films Festival team in Thailand, which is a great experience for children across the country. He also believes that this festival is unique in combining entertainment from watching films and learning from hands-on activities at the same time.