JUDGES
FILM JUDGES
Jonathan Rosenberry
Award-winning filmmaker Jonathan Rosenberry specializes in visual storytelling and impact filmmaking. Jonathan is the video production manager at the animal advocacy nonprofit Animal Outlook where he edits undercover investigation videos and is a content creator for their other strategic programs.
His films have won awards at the Animal Film Festival and the International Vegan Film Festival. He was also awarded “Best Cinematographer” in the DC 48-Hour Film Festival. He also performed the final cut of the documentary feature film “Called To Rescue” and is currently a cinematographer for filmmaker Mark Devries, creator of “Speciesism: The Movie”.
Alongside his film credentials, he co-founded “OrcaVue”, which manufactures and services a cinematic camera rig that has been used by many companies, including Netflix, Fox Sports, the NHL, and HBO. Also, Jonathan’s nature and animal photography have been prominently showcased in several print magazines.
Jasmine C. Leyva
Jasmine C. Leyva produced the feature-length documentary, The Invisible Vegan, a film that chronicles Jasmine’s personal experience with plant-based eating. The film also explains how plant-based eating is directly linked to African roots and how African-American eating habits have been debased by a chain of oppression stemming from slavery, economics, and modern agribusiness. Before producing The Invisible Vegan, she starred in several national commercials and worked behind the camera on several big cable network shows. Aside from her work in TV and film, she uses her platform to advocate for healthier food options in underserved communities and compassion for the earth and all its inhabitants.
Julie Gauthier
Julie Gauthier is a content creator for sustainable start-ups. Shortly after graduating in journalism, she took over the production on a variety of films such as Avengers: Endgame, The King’s Man, Spider-Man and many more. During this enlightening film career, she became vegan which had an admirable positive impact on climate change, but also on herself.
Lately, she re-oriented her values into her career which lead her to what she believes in, working together for a better future. She has added a plant-based nutrition certificate from eCornell New York under a belt and she is now also working on her own vegan brand.
She brings storytelling in a very energetic, fun, unique and international way into the vegan world. Julie has lived in Quebec, Los Angeles, London and is now located in Paris, where next, only she can tell!
Dan Moskaluk
Dan Moskaluk, along with his wife Sheanne, are known on social media as Indian Rock Vegans. They have been Vegan Plant-Based Lifestyle Health Advocates since 2013 and Animal Rights Activists since 2017. They live at Indian Rock, Naramata, BC, and are also passionate Animal Rights Activists, participating in activism across Canada and in the United States.
As a veteran police officer for 33 years and media spokesperson with the RCMP, and former United Nations Peacekeeping Mission Spokesperson and now recently retired, Dan not only advocates for the animals, but for the rights and freedoms of Animal Rights Activists, by sharing a unique perspective about the current relationship between law enforcement, mainstream media and the Animal Rights Movement.
As Keynote Speakers at Health Conferences, VegFests and on podcasts, they speak on the cruel and exploitative nature and negative environmental impact of animal agriculture, they also share their life-changing and lifesaving health recovery story from obesity and terminal kidney cancer via a Whole Food Plant Based Lifestyle.
Dan and Sheanne, are affectionately known as "The Canadian Content", in the critically acclaimed health doc film "Eating You Alive". You can find them on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter @indianrockvegans & Dan Sheanne Moskaluk
Francesco Bori
Francesco, whose origins are British and Italian, has a visual approach to all his storytelling work.
He is a neurodiverse multi-disciplinary artist, an educator, a curator, a film festival judge, an award winning ethical filmmaker in his own right and a vegan activist with a niche for vegan history. An out-of-the-box thinker who focuses on supporting underrepresented communities and the voiceless, including non-human animals.
On Instagram he uses @francesco_bori handle.