Jury

Nina Pániková

Nina Pániková is a Senior Capacity-Building Officer at Human Rights House Foundation, leading capacity-building efforts to support human rights defenders in Eastern Europe and the Western Balkans. She co-hosts the Talk Eastern Europe weekly podcast and previously worked at the European Network of National Human Rights Institutions, the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights, and in Slovakia. Nina is an alumna of the European Master's in Human Rights and Democratisation and the Summer School in Cinema, Human Rights, and Advocacy. She annually attends the Venice International Film Festival.

 

Eurico Pedrosa

Administrator in the European Parliament Secretariat, in charge of supporting MEPs to pursue the human rights and democracy support strategy of the European Parliament, of which the Sakharov Prize is a centrepiece. Has been working since 2020 with People in Need to coordinate the European Parliament's participation in the OWFF as a powerful tool to promote the engagement of MEPs with the laureates causes and civil society through documentary films.

Žiga Faktor

Žiga Faktor works as the Deputy Director and Head of the Brussels office of EUROPEUM. His field of expertise includes EU Institutions and EU Enlargement Policy. Furthermore, he focuses on the relations of the EU with the countries of the Western Balkans, Eastern Europe, and Turkey, with special attention to the aspects of democratization through European integration. Other points of his interest are the conflict resolutions of the wars in former Yugoslavia and violence in the Northern Ireland during the Troubles.