Each year we invite established professionals, subject experts and artists and creatives from across the UK to form part of the independent Jury that will select this year’s Shortlisted Artists and Fellow.
We are thrilled to share that the Arts Foundation Futures Awards 2025 for Film Jury Members are:
Joanna Hogg
Joanna Hogg is a British director and screenwriter. She started her career as a photographer and then after fifteen years directing television drama, wrote and directed her first feature film Unrelated (2008). She followed this with six more feature films; Archipelago (2010), Exhibition (2013), The Souvenir (2019), The Souvenir Part II (2021) and The Eternal Daughter (2022). She is currently preparing her next film to be shot in Los Angeles in 2025.
Peter Suschitzky
Peter Suschitzky is a film cinematographer and photographer. Peter was born in London and attended film school in Paris at IDHEC, now La Fémis (FEMIS). Peter started his career as a cinematographer, aged 21 by shooting documentaries during a year in Latin America. He shot his first movie in London, called ‘It Happened Here’ which imagined a Britain occupied by the Germans during WW2.
Peter continued to shoot movies, such as The Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Empire Strikes Back and eleven films with David Cronenberg as well as Mars Attacks with Tim Burton and Tale of Tales with Mateo Garrone. In parallel with his work as a cinematographer, Peter has always followed his passion for classical music and for making photographs. Peter is currently preparing a book, showing the work of the four photographers in his family – his aunt, Edith Tudor Hart, his father, Wolfgang Suschitzky, and his own photographs and those of his son, Adam, spanning one hundred years of photography!
Claudia Yusef
Claudia Yusef is Commissioning Executive at BBC Film. She has Executive Produced a number of features and shorts for BBC Film including Clio Barnard’s ALI & AVA; PRAY, novelist Caleb Azumah Nelson’s debut short as a director; THE END WE START FROM, the debut feature of Mahalia Belo, written by Alice Birch and starring Jodie Comer; and THE OUTRUN directed by Nora Fingscheidt, based on the best-selling memoir by Amy Liptrot (which Fingscheidt adapted in collaboration with Liptrot) and starring Saoirse Ronan.
Prior to BBC Film, Claudia was Head of Development at Number 9Films where she oversaw the film and television slate. Claudia was previously Talent Development Executive at the Scottish Film Network, part of BFI NETWORK, where she established several new short film programmes and first feature talent development initiatives, and commissioned a series of shorts and first feature developments, working with emerging filmmakers including Ruth Paxton, Cara Connolly, Morayo Akande, and Ben Sharrock. She has an MFA in film from Columbia University, where she received the Hollywood Foreign Press Association scholarship.
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The Arts Foundation Futures Awards support the UK’s most promising artists and creatives at a pivotal moment in their careers with £20,000 unconditional Fellowships.
The Film Award Shortlist will be revealed in January 2025, and the recipient of the £20,000 Fellowship will be announced at a live Award Ceremony in February 2025, with all shortlisted artists awarded £1,000.
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