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Funa Maduka among 2023 Sundance Film Festival Jurors Ferdinand Ekechukwu Sixteen critical voices from around the world across film, art, and culture will grant this year’s awards for feature and short

Sixteen critical voices from around the world across film, art, and culture will grant this year’s awards for feature and short films at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, which kicked off last Wednesday, in Utah, United States. Among them is Nigerian filmmaker, Funa Maduka. She is distinguished as one of the three jury members of the World Cinema Dramatic Competition, alongside Shozo Ichiyama and Annemarie Jacir. The festival closes on Monday, January 29.

Others are W. Kamau Bell, Ramona Diaz, and Carla Gutierrez for U.S. Documentary Competition; and Karim Amer, Petra Costa, and Alexander Nanau for World Cinema Documentary Competition; Madeleine Olnek for the NEXT competition section; Destin Daniel Cretton, Marie-Louise Khondji, and Deborah Stratman for the Short Film Program Competition.

Funa Maduka is an award-winning filmmaker and the former head of International Original Films at Netflix where she worked with the world’s top global and emerging filmmakers. Over six years, she was positioned at the frontline of the company’s global expansion, managing the launch of the film offering across 100+ countries.

 

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