FILM JUDGES
Nafsika Antypas
Nafsika Antypas is the CEO of the international vegan food brand, Nafsika’s Garden and executive producer of the television series, Plant-Based by Nafsika. Raised in Montreal, Canada, Antypas obtained her Bachelor of Arts degree from Concordia University, where she also received several post-graduate certificates. She later received her health coach certification from the Health Coach Institute.
In 2014, she founded a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, People Against Violence, to help victims of violence seek guidance and assistance with its 24-hour helpline, monitored by certified counselors.
Nafsika has appeared on numerous television and radio shows, contributed her writing, been interviewed by online magazines such as PETA, VegNews, EmpowHER, Insider, Health Digest, and more. She is the author of “Ghosted”, and “The Plant-Based Switch”.
In 2014, she founded a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, People Against Violence, to help victims of violence seek guidance and assistance with its 24-hour helpline, monitored by certified counselors.
Nafsika has appeared on numerous television and radio shows, contributed her writing, been interviewed by online magazines such as PETA, VegNews, EmpowHER, Insider, Health Digest, and more. She is the author of “Ghosted”, and “The Plant-Based Switch”.
Dale Vince
Dale Vince is a green entrepreneur based in the UK. He is the founder of the world’s first renewable energy company, Ecotricity and chairman of Forest Green Rovers football club – described recently by governing body FIFA as the “world’s greenest club.” Dale is also a climate champion for the United Nations.
Jim Amos
Jim is the COO of Scout 22, a full service marketing and PR agency which specializes in the plant-based, vegan and conscious capitalist spaces.
He previously served as President of Domestic Distribution at Sony Pictures and has written for many major news publications, including Forbes.
Jim is a vegan and lives in Los Angeles with his wife Lori and their 13 rescue animals.
He previously served as President of Domestic Distribution at Sony Pictures and has written for many major news publications, including Forbes.
Jim is a vegan and lives in Los Angeles with his wife Lori and their 13 rescue animals.
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.
PHOTO CONTEST JUDGES
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
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
Dr. Jennifer Purdy
Dr. Jennifer Purdy, CD, MD, CCFP, DipABLM, is a family physician practising Lifestyle Medicine at Ottawa Lifestyle Medicine.
Jen grew up in Kanata, Ontario, attended Queen’s University for two years in Nursing Science, and then joined the Canadian Armed Forces in 1994. She completed a Bachelor of Arts at the Royal Military College of Canada. She worked as a Health Care Administration Officer in Quebec, British Columbia, and Saskatchewan, for six years, before starting medical school at the University of Ottawa, where she subsequently completed her residency in Family Medicine. She worked as a family physician in CAF in Trenton, Petawawa, and Ottawa before retiring in 2018.
Jen represented the Green Party of Canada in the Kanata-Carleton riding in the 2019 election.
Jen grew up in Kanata, Ontario, attended Queen’s University for two years in Nursing Science, and then joined the Canadian Armed Forces in 1994. She completed a Bachelor of Arts at the Royal Military College of Canada. She worked as a Health Care Administration Officer in Quebec, British Columbia, and Saskatchewan, for six years, before starting medical school at the University of Ottawa, where she subsequently completed her residency in Family Medicine. She worked as a family physician in CAF in Trenton, Petawawa, and Ottawa before retiring in 2018.
Jen represented the Green Party of Canada in the Kanata-Carleton riding in the 2019 election.
Seth Tibbott
In 1980, Seth Tibbott founded Turtle Island Foods, now "the Tofurky Company", on $2500 savings from his 8-year career as a teacher/naturalist. The company’s first product was a tasty fermented Indonesian soy product called Tempeh. Many people, including his midwestern Aunt and fellow elementary school teachers, thought selling moldy soybeans to the meat centric American public was a very bad idea. For 15 years it appeared the naysayers were right as Seth pursued his dream while losing his shirt as a pioneer of the early plant-based foods movement. With an income of only $300/month, Seth built a 3-story treehouse that he called home for 7 years. In 1995, also against the advice of his partners, Seth introduced the first nationally marketed vegan holiday roast named "Tofurky". The Tofurky brand now includes 43 different vegan products which are sold in 27,000 stores worldwide. Seth has chronicled his “40-year overnight success story” in a new book, In Search of the Wild Tofurky-How a Business Misfit Pioneered Plant-Based Foods Before They Were Cool.
Sebastiano Cossia Castiglioni
Sebastiano is an entrepreneur, investor, activist, and advisor to businesses, governments, and nonprofits around the world. For many years, he has been a successful investor in a wide range of fields, from bioscience to food, from agriculture to technology.
Sebastiano focuses on investments aimed at removing animals from the food sector and all other industries.
He is the Chair and co-founder of Natural Order Acquisition Corp., a SPAC focusing on the plant-based sector that held a $230m IPO last November on NASDAQ. He also invests through Planthesis with partner Miray Zaki, and Vegan Capital. He is a partner in the Blue Horizon Group, and was an early investor in Beyond Meat.
He is the owner of Querciabella, a Tuscan organic, biodynamic, and vegan award-winning winery, and recently launched the gluten-free pasta brand Bontasana.
A longtime animal rights activist, Sebastiano serves on the board or advisory board of seven organizations, including Sea Shepherd, Animal Outlook, IAPF, Animal Equality and Project Coyote.
Sebastiano served as advisor to Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi from 2014 to 2016.
Originally from Milan, Italy, he divides his time among Europe, Asia, and the United States.
Sebastiano focuses on investments aimed at removing animals from the food sector and all other industries.
He is the Chair and co-founder of Natural Order Acquisition Corp., a SPAC focusing on the plant-based sector that held a $230m IPO last November on NASDAQ. He also invests through Planthesis with partner Miray Zaki, and Vegan Capital. He is a partner in the Blue Horizon Group, and was an early investor in Beyond Meat.
He is the owner of Querciabella, a Tuscan organic, biodynamic, and vegan award-winning winery, and recently launched the gluten-free pasta brand Bontasana.
A longtime animal rights activist, Sebastiano serves on the board or advisory board of seven organizations, including Sea Shepherd, Animal Outlook, IAPF, Animal Equality and Project Coyote.
Sebastiano served as advisor to Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi from 2014 to 2016.
Originally from Milan, Italy, he divides his time among Europe, Asia, and the United States.
Kimberly Casy Carr
KCC is the Founder of VMECCA, an international livestream and gaming platform which hosts Fortnite, Call of Duty, VALORANT and PoloWarz gaming streams, among live sports and music events.
KCC is also Board Chair for the relaunch of the 23rd Annual Palm Beach International Film Festival which will feature "3 Under 30" Awards for Indie Filmmakers promoting several highlighted U.S. women's sports legacy and equestrian-based Hollywood films.
Kimberly Casey Carr is a Co-Founder of the Women’s Economic Development Alliance and author of the U.S. WEDA Act legislation currently being prepared for the U.S. House of Representatives.
Kimberly Casey Carr is the Founder and Chair of KCC Private Equity, LLC.
KCC is also Board Chair for the relaunch of the 23rd Annual Palm Beach International Film Festival which will feature "3 Under 30" Awards for Indie Filmmakers promoting several highlighted U.S. women's sports legacy and equestrian-based Hollywood films.
Kimberly Casey Carr is a Co-Founder of the Women’s Economic Development Alliance and author of the U.S. WEDA Act legislation currently being prepared for the U.S. House of Representatives.
Kimberly Casey Carr is the Founder and Chair of KCC Private Equity, LLC.
Jill Robinson
Jill Robinson has been a pioneer of animal welfare in Asia since 1985, and is widely recognised as the world’s leading expert on the bear bile industry, having campaigned against it since 1993. UK born, Jill arrived in Hong Kong in 1985 and spent 12 years working for the International Fund for Animal Welfare. She founded “Dr Dog” in 1991, the first animal-therapy programme in Asia. More than 1,000 dogs have since qualified as "therapists", visiting hospitals, disabled centres, schools and elderly homes in cities across Asia.
In 1993, a visit to a “bear farm” in China defined Jill’s future. Exposing the plight of endangered Asiatic black bears cruelly farmed for bile extraction, Jill embarked on a journey to end the practice. In 1998, she founded Animals Asia, an organisation devoted to ending bear bile farming in China and Vietnam and bring about long-term change for animals by promoting compassion and respect. Today, Animals Asia has rescued over 640 bears, caring for them at its award-winning bear sanctuaries in China and Vietnam, and has signed a formal agreement with the Vietnam government to end bear bile farming once and for all.
Among Jill's awards have been the “Reader’s Digest” Hero for Today award, and she was one of 12 people given the “You Bring Charm to China” award at a ceremony by Phoenix Satellite Television and Tian Jin TV. In 1998, she was made an MBE by Queen Elizabeth II.
In 1993, a visit to a “bear farm” in China defined Jill’s future. Exposing the plight of endangered Asiatic black bears cruelly farmed for bile extraction, Jill embarked on a journey to end the practice. In 1998, she founded Animals Asia, an organisation devoted to ending bear bile farming in China and Vietnam and bring about long-term change for animals by promoting compassion and respect. Today, Animals Asia has rescued over 640 bears, caring for them at its award-winning bear sanctuaries in China and Vietnam, and has signed a formal agreement with the Vietnam government to end bear bile farming once and for all.
Among Jill's awards have been the “Reader’s Digest” Hero for Today award, and she was one of 12 people given the “You Bring Charm to China” award at a ceremony by Phoenix Satellite Television and Tian Jin TV. In 1998, she was made an MBE by Queen Elizabeth II.