Noe Mendelle
Best Short Documentary Jury
Noé started her film career with Steel Bank Films (1982), a Channel 4 film workshop based in Sheffield. She is an experienced director, producer & exec producer on the international scene, having worked on numerous award-winning documentaries for festival and broadcast (Ch4, BBC, Arte, RTP, RTBF…).
Her last award-winning documentary was “Sculpting the Spirits” (2016) and her last series for BBC was “Right Here” (2021). In 2004, she set up Scottish Documentary Institute and created several schemes to develop creative documentary in Scotland such as Bridging the Gap,
This is Scotland, Right Here and Edinburgh Pitch to connect Scotland with International Documentary network. In collaboration with British Council she runs a series of international workshops in Asia, Africa and the MENA region called Stories. The latest ones are Jakarta Stories, Beijing Stories and now Kenyan Stories (2021).In 2019, she was made member of Academy for the Documentary section.