Awards

Althea Jarvis is a television producer with more than 20 years experience. She is also a former educator and has always been passionate about how the medium of film and television can be used as an empowerment and educational tool. In her capacity as Commissioning Editor at the South African Broadcasting Corporation, she is the Editor of some of South Africa’s most beloved TV shows. The Daily Youth Drama “Skeem Saam” has an average viewership of more than 6 million viewers daily and won the prestigious South African Film and Television Award (SAFTA) for most Popular Drama in 2016. In 2017, the Docu-reality show, “100% Youth” won the SAFTA for Best Youth  Programme. The show focusses on the creative economies and how young entrepreneurs are turning their creative expressions into a viable business. She is currently doing her Master’s degree in Media Studies at AFDA film School in Johannesburg, South Africa.

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.