JUDGES

FILM JUDGES

 

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.

Francesco Bori

Francesco, whose origins are British and Italian, has a visual approach to all his storytelling work.

He is a neurodiverse multi-disciplinary artist, an educator, a curator, a film festival judge, an award winning ethical filmmaker in his own right and a vegan activist with a niche for vegan history. An out-of-the-box thinker who focuses on supporting underrepresented communities and the voiceless, including non-human animals.

On Instagram he uses @francesco_bori handle.

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