2023 Film Jury

Tomas Kaan

Tomas Kaan (b. Mkwajuni, 1979) is a director of both documentaries and fiction films. He has experience managing large creative teams and works exclusively for the Amsterdam-based production company Scenery. Tomas was recently the showrunner for the Netflix documentary series Human Playground. The series revolves around the question as to why people play. Covering 30 locations worldwide, the documentary is narrated by Idris Elba. Tomas also directed two episodes of the Netflix Original drama series Dirty Lines, which takes place in Amsterdam at the end of the 1980s. His earlier work has been broadcast and screened at different festivals across the world and earned Tomas a number of awards.

Tomas lives in an old farmhouse in Zuid-Limburg, together with his wife and three children.

Bob A. Schelfhout Aubertijn

After a long list of ascents of mountains 5, 6, and 7000 metres in height and an expedition to an 8000-metre summit, Bob Schelfhout Aubertijn (b. 1961) – for the time being – has shifted his focus from active mountaineering to tabletop mountaineering with books, articles, magazines, fact-checking, proofreading, translation, research projects, documentaries, reporting, statistics, promotion of tales of adventure to keep them alive. As such, Bob is in close contact with Eberhard Jurgalski’s Eight-thousander research group and the Himalayan Database team. His collaboration with Bernadette McDonald and others resulted in two Boardman Tasker Awards and a whole host of others.

Bob is the father of three children, grandfather of three grandchildren and Pater Familias of a Dutch-Australian family.