DIG Festival 2026
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At DIG Festival 2026, the international DIG video jury will award the best investigative journalism and reporting works from hundreds of entries, honoring the excellence and courage of reporters from around the world.
The DIG Awards 2026 jury welcomes a wide range of distinguished professionals from across diverse disciplines, including documentary filmmaking, journalism, screenwriting, and film production.
Igor Bezinović is a filmmaker born in Rijeka, which is now part of Croatia, but at that time belonged to the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, before that partly the Kingdom of Italy and partly the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, before that the Free State of Fiume, before that the Italian Regency of Carnaro, before that Austria-Hungary... His films include The Blockade (Oktavijan prize for Best Croatian Documentary 2012), Veruda (Oktavijan prize for Best Croatian Documentary 2015) and A Brief Excursion (Big Golden Arena prize for Best Croatian Feature 2017), along with many shorts of all shapes and sizes. His work has been shown internationally at events including IFFR, DOK Leipzig, Ji.hlava IDFF, CPH:DOX, Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, Biennale of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean, Venice Biennale of Architecture (with Hrvoslava Brkušić for Pulska grupa), Museum of the Moving Image, Guanajuato IFF and Viennale, among others. He graduated in Film Directing at the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb, and in Philosophy, Sociology and Comparative Literature at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb.
Hoda Osman is an investigative journalist based in New York. She serves as executive editor at Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ) and investigations editor at Lighthouse Reports. Her work is focused on collaborative investigations. She has works and has worked with various organizations over the years, including the Guardian, Frontline (PBS), France 24, the investigative units of ABC and CBS News and at the Associated Press. She co-founded the Arab and Middle Eastern Journalists Association (AMEJA) and served as its president until 2025.
Manisha Ganguly is an incoming Senior Correspondent at TIME, focusing on investigations and features on AI and national security. She previously was the investigations correspondent and the visual forensics lead at The Guardian. She is a pioneer in open-source investigations (OSI) to expose war crimes. Her award-winning investigations and documentaries have covered 4 wars, 5 continents, and been broadcast to over 300 million. She holds the first PhD on the impact of OSINT and AI on crisis reporting. She also served for three years as a judge for the News & Documentary Emmy Awards.
James Kleinfeld is an investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker. His work has covered the Israel Lobby, the European far-right, British politics, and international corruption in Namibia, Iceland, and Cyprus. In recent years, he has focused on the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
Brigitte Alfter is the director of Arena for Journalism in Europe. She is a pioneer in cross-border collaborative journalism. In her work, she combines journalistic practice with entrepreneurial activities, teaching, training, and academic research.
Gabriela Manuli is Director of Special Projects at the International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of journalists defending media freedom and independent journalism wherever they are threatened. Before that, for over a decade, she was Deputy Director of the Global Investigative Journalism Network (GIJN) and co-founder of GIJN Women. Originally from Argentina and based in Hungary, Manuli has been a journalist for over 20 years.
Axel Björklund is responsible for Uppdrag granskning , Sweden’s best-known investigative journalism television program, watched by millions since 2001. Björklund began working at SVT, the public national broadcaster, three years ago, after spending more than a decade at the daily newspaper Dagens Nyheter.
Marco Pettenello has written more than twenty-five feature films released theatrically in Italy and abroad (including Berlinguer - The Great Ambition, La Chimera, The Right Distance, and Io Sono Li), as well as TV series, documentaries, and literary translations. He has collaborated with directors such as Carlo Mazzacurati, Silvio Soldini, Andrea Segre, Gianni Di Gregorio, and Alice Rohrwacher, among others. In 2021, he won the David di Donatello for Citizens of the World (Lontano Lontano) and has received three additional nominations. Twelve of his films have premiered at the Venice Film Festival, two at Cannes, and one at Berlin. He occasionally teaches screenwriting at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia and other institutions. Born in Padua in 1973, he has lived in the United Kingdom, Spain, and Argentina.
