Actor-musician Jharrel Jerome (Moonlight, When They See Us) and actor Teo Yoo (Past Lives, The Recruit) have joined the jury for the first-ever Golden Globes Impact Prize for Documentary, presented by Artemis Rising Foundation during the 82nd Venice International Film Festival. 

The Impact Prize honors a documentary feature film in the Biennale’s official selection, either in or out of competition, that is calling attention to a key social issue.

Artemis Rising Foundation founder-CEO Regina K. Scully said, “Artemis Rising Foundation is proud to shine a light on impactful documentaries in the Venice Film Festival. We believe that championing powerful stories is essential to inspire meaningful change. We are thrilled to collaborate with the Golden Globes and present this unique new prize to a documentary film in support of the genre.”

Venice Film Festival artistic director Alberto Barbera added, “Documentaries grow year after year in the consideration of the public and critics. For this reason, the new prize that Golden Globes and Artemis Rising Foundation will present to the best impact documentary on the occasion of the 82nd Venice Film Festival seems to me of great importance and value.”

Nominated documentaries for the prize include Kabul, Between Prayers (Aboozar Amini); My Father and Qaddafi (Jihan K); Nuestra Tierra (Lucrecia Martel); Notes of a True Criminal (Alexander Rodnyansky, Andriy Alferov); Cover-Up (Laura Poitras, Mark Obenhaus); Below The Clouds (Gianfranco Rossi); and Remake (Ross McElwee). The winning documentary will be selected based on its social importance, journalistic integrity, artistic creativity and narrative disruption.

Jerome and Yoo join an international jury: Golden Globes president Helen Hoehne; Artemis Rising Foundation founder-CEO Scully; award-winning producer and co-founder of Impact Partners, Geralyn White Dreyfous; screenwriter Misan Sagay, director Edoardo Ponti, and, CEO & Founder of Think-Film Impact Production Danielle Turkov Wilson.

Jerome said, ”Real stories are what all of us want, and what the world needs — they inspire us, and challenge what we think can be possible. It’s exciting to see documentary storytelling on the rise, and to be part of what this award represents for the future of film.”

Teo Yoo said, “The power of documentary filmmaking to reveal new sides to humanity encourages us to all be more curious about the world around us. It’s such an important art-form and one that deserves greater recognition and opportunity; I’m deeply honored to be part of this new award.”

The prize at Venice is a continuation of the partners’ shared commitments to elevating documentary film. The winner will receive a cash prize of $US10,000 from Artemis Rising Foundation, as well as an impact collaboration with Think-Film Impact Production.

The annual Golden Globes has honored achievements since 1944, now saluting film, television and podcasts. Over the last three decades, the Golden Globes has enabled donations of more than $55 million to entertainment-related charities including scholarship programs, film restoration projects and humanitarian efforts. This funding has also supported diverse programs in partnership with advocacy groups aimed at promoting greater access in Hollywood for underserved communities. Dick Clark Productions is the owner and producer of the Golden Globes. For more information on the Golden Globes, please visit GoldenGlobes.com and follow it on X, Instagram, Facebook, Threads and TikTok.

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Artemis Rising Foundation is dedicated to supporting media, arts and education projects that transform our culture and challenge the status quo. Led by founder-CEO Scully, the foundation champions stories about some of the most challenging social justice issues of our time — including, healing, trauma, mental health, addiction recovery, women’s empowerment and regeneration of our planet. Artemis Rising Foundation has helped produce some of the most impactful documentary films of our time, inspiring changes in legislation, education, corporate policies, cultural and behavioral norms. Films  address issues such as trauma recovery, regenerative farming, sexual assault in the military and on college campuses, women’s representation in the media and the importance of compassion and empathy in our culture.

Working closely with journalists and filmmakers, including Amy Ziering, Katie Couric, Kirby Dick, Morgan Neville, Ross Kauffman, Louie Schwartzberg, Freida Mock, Liz Garbus, Josh and Rebecca Tickell, Laura Dern and Alex Gibney, Artemis Rising Foundation has supported hundreds of films, many of which have received Peabody, Emmy and Academy Awards. In addition to documentaries, Artemis Rising Foundation supports a variety of projects that include narrative film, television, theater, education, and social programs. The More info on the foundation can be found on Instagram and the Foundation film website here.

Think-Film Impact Production is the world’s premier impact media company. Think-Film partners with international independent feature storytellers to advance social justice at the highest levels of international policy and governance. Think-Film has brought impact into the A-list film festival circuit including, co-launching the Cannes Marche du Film impACT programme in 2021 and awarding the Venice Collateral Impact Award in 2023 and 2024, Think-Film has led impact on more than 50 films over the past 10 years, including: Navalny (2023), Black Box Diaries (2025 Peabody winner), The End (Tilda Swinton feature from Joshua Oppenheimer), and Dark Waters (Mark Ruffalo feature from Todd Haynes). Think-Film co-produced Facing War, a documentary following the final years of former NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, which in 2025 became the first non-Danish film to open the Copenhagen documentary festival, CPH:DOX.