Sliced Onion Award Jury

Jarmila Outratová has been Head of Industry Office at Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival since 2013. The Ji.hlava’s Industry Programme includes Emerging Producers – focusing on the upcoming generation of talented European documentary film producers, Ji.hlava Academy – an educational and inspiring workshop, Festival Identity – a platform for sharing experiences among festival organizers and programmers from around the world, as well as other industry events.

Tamta Gabrichidze was born in Tbilisi, Georgia. She holds a bachelor’s degree in film directing from Film and Theatre University of Georgia. Later she continued her studies as PR at Georgian Institute of Public Affairs.

She has directed several short and documentary films. After serving in different positions in films and TV shows for more than ten years, she is now working as a freelance director/producer and collaborates with different companies. She is the director of a Sundance Award winning film “The Trader” (Sovdagari in Georgian) which is the first Georgian film distributed by Netflix worldwide.

Toni Bell is part of the International Documentary Association where she is responsible for handling the day-to-day operations of the fiscal sponsorship program. She curates the IDA’s DocuClub work-in-progress screening series of which many of the films have premiered at film festivals such as Sundance, Tribeca, and CPH:Dox.

Her foray into documentary film began when she started writing and editing the newsletter for the Black Association of Documentary Filmmakers – West. This led to her first gig as production assistant and then an archival researcher for the film, Bridging the Divide: Tom Bradley and the Politics of Race, which aired nationally on PBS. Since then she has done archival research for several documentaries and television shows.

She holds an M.A. in Visual Anthropology from USC, M.F.A in Creative Writing from Naropa University, and a certificate in professional screenwriting from UCLA.