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Jury Committee
  • Kevin Macdonald
    UK
  • NING Ying
    China
  • ZHOU Hao
    China
  • Kaori ODA
    Japan
  • Jorge Jácome
    Portugal

Director, screenwriter, and producer, best known for ONE DAY IN SEPTEMBER (Academy Award winner for Best Documentary Feature), TOUCHING THE VOID (BAFTA Best British Film), MARLEY (BAFTA Best Documentary Film nomination), SKY LADDER: THE ART OF CAI GUO-QIANG (Sundance Grand Jury Prize nomination), as well as LIFE IN A DAY (2011 and 2021), and WHITNEY. He co-authored IMAGINING REALITY: THE FABER BOOK OF DOCUMENTARY with Mark Cousins.

 

  • Laila Pakalnina
    Latvia
  • John Paul Sniadecki
    USA
  • Julia Sergina
    Russia
  • MOU Sen
    China
  • LI Ruijun
    China
Laila Pakalnina graduated from the Moscow FilmInstitute (VGIK), Department of Film Direction, in 1991. Adirector and scriptwriter of 32 documentaries, 5 shorts,and 6 fiction features, altogether she has 43 films. Herfilms include THE SHOE, THE WATER, DAWN, SILENCE,THEODORE, IN THE MIRROR, THE FERRY and so on, which have screened in official programmes at Cannes, Venice,Berlinale, Locarno, Karlovy Vary, Rome, Tallinn and other international festivals, where they have won numerous awards.
  • LI Shaohong
    China
  • Peter Torbiörnsson
    Sweden
  • LIN Xudong
    China
  • HSU Hsiao-Ming
    Taiwan, China
  • Vikram Channa
    India
  • Daisy Asquith
    Ireland
  • Tiemu JIN
    China
  • Tāo Gǔ
    China

LI Shaohong is one of the most famous female directors in China. Her films express strong sense of feminism. She's also considered as one of the Fifth Generation directors, together with classmates like ZHANG Yimou, CHEN Kaige and TIAN Zhuangzhauang. She graduated from the Beijing Film Academy in 1982. She shot her first thriller THE CASE OF THE SILVER SNAKE and won international acclaim for BLOODY MORNING (Silver Leopard in Locarno and top prize in Nantes). Her work BLUSH also won a Silver Bear for Visual Organization in Berlin in 1995. Her 2005 film STOLEN LIFE won the founders' award at Tribecca Film festival and three other international awards in 2006. She later became one of the most important TV drama producers and directors creating in Asia for TV series, such as REN JIAN SI YUE TIAN, ORANGE TURN RIPE and her latest production of THE DREAM OF THE RED MANSION. 2011---2020, Li has been selected as the president of China Film Directors' Association. 2019 win the "Spirit of Cinema" Achievement Award of the 4th International Film Festival & Awards Macao. 2020 win the "Outstanding contribution Director Award" of the 11th Chinese Film Directors Association.

  • Zhaodun SITU
    China
  • Rakesh Sharma
    India
  • DONG Bingfeng
    China
  • Bing Liu
    USA
  • Markus Nornes
    USA
  • HAN Xiao
    China
  • Lina YANG
    China
  • Ton van Zantvoort
    Netherlands

Zhaodun Situ is a professor of the Department of Directing at Beijing Film Academy, a graduate advisor, and a documentary director, a member of China Film Association and a prestigious educator specialized in documentary. He is dedicated to the popularization and development of documentary film in China. His representative films include My Dream, Bamboo, Sunset on the Green Mountain, Elegance of China, etc. His publications include The Basics of Film and Television Directing, The Anecdotes of Movies in the World, The Prospect of Documentary Production in China, etc. He was awarded Outstanding Contribution Award for Promoting the Documentary of China by China TV Documentary Academy Award as well as Lifetime Achievement Award by Sino-French Documentary Biennale.

  • Tony Rayns
    UK
  • HU Zhifeng
    China
  • Frank Scheffer
    Netherlands
  • LIANG Bibo
    China
  • WANG Min-an
    China
  • Audrius Stonys
    Lithuania
  • Louisa WEI
    Hong Kong China
  • PAN Zhiqi
    China

Tony Rayns is a London-based critic, filmmaker and festival programmer with a special interest in East Asian cinema. He is also the founder and director of Dragon & Tiger Award of Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF) as well as one of founders of Busan International Film Festival. His writings appears regularly in the magazine Sight & Sound.

Mr. Rayns has been committed to the promotion and production of international films. Being known as talent scout of Asian flims, he pays special attention to the creation and promotion of East Asian films. He has scouted for and recommended numerous Asian filmmakers including Kitano Takeshi, Lee Chang-dong, Hong Sang- soo, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Chen Kaige, Wong Kar-wai, Jia Zhangke, Stanley Kwan and Tsai Ming-liang. Moreover, he has also published books on Fassbinder, Korean cinema, Suzuki Seijun and Wong Kar-wai's In the Mood for Love.

  • Jean-Michel Frodon
    France
  • YING Qiming
    China
  • LU Yue
    China
  • Richard Dale
    UK
  • Cameron Bailey
    Canada
  • Mary Stephen
    Hong Kong China/ Canada
  • Suliu HE
    China
  • Haibin DU
    China

Jean-Michel Frodon is a well-known French journalist and film critic at weekly "Le Point" (1983-1990), "Le Monde" (1990-2003), the former Editorial Director of "Cahiers du cinema" (2003-2009), vice president of the Commission of Aide aux cinema du monde, also the author or editor of nearly 30 books, including L'âge moderne du cinéma français, La Projection nationale.

 

He has been teaching at Pantheon-Sorbonne University and École Normale Supérieure. Currently he is Professor at Sciences Po Paris (Political Sciences Institute) and Honorary Professor at University of St. Andrews, Scotland.

  • Yves Jeanneau
    France
  • FU Hongxing
    China
  • Nilotpal Majumdar
    India
  • Sally Berger
    USA
  • Ruby Chen
    Taiwan, China
  • GAO Shiming
    China
  • XU Jifeng
    China

Founder of the French Marseille Documentary Festival, President of the Sunny Side of the Doc., and winner of the Oscar Award for "Best Documentary".

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