Adelle Onyango joins film star Sharon Stone in major role

Piece by: Maureen Waruinge

10 April 2023

• She announced the good news via social media.

• She will also be joined by WHO senior experts.

Adelle Onyango has announced some major news in her career. The media personality jets off to join US film actress Sharon Stone in a panel of judges with World Health Organization experts.

Adelle will join Sharon Stone as jurors for the Health For All Film Festival to recruit film innovators to champion and promote health issues.

They will be judging short films promoting health issues around the world.

"I am so thrilled, to be joining Hollywood Actress Sharon Stone, in being a jury member, in the Health for All Film Festival.

Together with WHO director (tropical diseases) Dr. Socé Fall, the 3 of us will be judging the Universal Health Category," she announced on her social media.

800 filmmakers have submitted their work, with 90 films of these films being shortlisted for review by a jury of international artists and development leaders, before the announcement of the winners in June 2023.

The World Health Organization invited independent filmmakers, production companies, public health institutions, NGOs, communities, students, and film schools from around the world to submit their original short films to the Health for All Film Festival.

Launched in 2019/2020, the festival aims to recruit a new generation of film and video innovators to champion global health issues.

Films are a powerful way to raise awareness, improve understanding, and encourage action.

The following distinguished professionals, artists and activists, joined by WHO senior experts, comprise this year’s festival jury:

Sharon Stone (actor from the USA); Alfonso Herrera (actor from Mexico); Ricky Kej (musician from India); Melissa Fleming (United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications); Dr Tlaleng Mofokeng (United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health from South Africa); Sherrie Silver (dance choreographer from Rwanda), Sophia Kianni (Iranian-American climate activist ); and Adelle Onyango (media personality and podcaster from Kenya).

In the coming weeks, jurors will review the shortlisted films and recommend winners to the WHO Director-General, who will make the final decision.

Three “GRAND PRIX” and four special prizes will be announced in June at the online Awards Ceremony followed by a series of discussions with winners and jurors.