List of International Panel of Jury at International Film Festival of Kerala 2015

Chairman International Jury
Filmmaker, Brasil

Júlio Bressane Eduardo is a Brazilian filmmaker and writer. He is a representative of Brazilian Cinema Marginal. In 1967 Bressane debuted as director with 'Face to Face', then selected for the Festival of Brasilia. In 1970 he founded Belair Movies with fellow filmmaker Rogerio Sganzerla. His film Cleopatra was screened at the 2007 Venice Film Festival, in the catagory of Mostra Venezia Maestri (Venice Masters Exhibition), as well as being named best film of the 40th Festival de Brasília Film in November 2007.

International Jury
Artistic Director, Locarno Film Festival, Switzerland

International Jury
Filmmaker, India

Jahnu Barua is an internationally acclaimed Indian film director from Assam He has directed a number of Assamese and Hindi films. He is considered as one of the pioneers in Assamese parallel cinema. He is best known outside Assam for his Hindi film 'Maine Gandhi Ko Nahin Mara', a drama which uses the principles of Gandhism for its thematic backstory. His films have been recognized nationally and Internationally.

International Jury
Head of Asia Pacific Screen Awards, Brisbane, Australia

International Jury
Film Maker UK/Nigerian

Newton Aduaka is an internationally acclaimed film director, who hails from Nigeria. He has achieved a handful of accolades and appreciations from around the globe. Aduaka left for England to study Engineering but discovered Cinema and attended the London International Film School, graduating in 1990. In 1997 he established Granite Film Works. In 2001 Newton's debut feature film Rage, released in Britain, which got international acclamation.
Between 2005 and 2007 he co-wrote, directed and executive produced Ezra, his first non-independently funded film, for Arte France. In 2001-2002 he was Filmmaker in Residence at Festival de Cannes' Cinéfondation in Paris.