Selection Committee

Li Yuan

Also known as Xiao-ye, Li has worked in a range of media companies and services, including television, film production, advertisement, literature and education. He was deputy director of the planning department at a major film production company, director of programming at Taiwan Television Enterprise, president of Chinese Television System and chairman of Taipei Culture Foundation and Taipei Film Festival. He has published and presented more than a hundred pieces of literature and screenplays.

Lau Chia-hua

Worked as a journalist for the United Evening News and The Independent Post. She was the chief editor of the The Independent Evening Post’s Theatre and Arts page. She has acted as a juror for organizations and events, including the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival and the Taipei Film Festival. Since 1983, she has been writing film reviews and articles. Currently she writes a film review column in Next Magazine.

Wu Mi-sen

Born in Taipei, Taiwan, Wu received his BFA with Magna Cum Laude in filmmaking from City University of New York in 1995. His thesis film, Van Gogh’s Ear, which features the Beat Generation poet Allen Ginsberg, won the most awards that the University has ever conferred on any single film. Since coming back to Taiwan he has continued to make documentary and feature films filled with creative grandeur. Surrealistic imagination and a sense of the absurd permeates his films and keeps the audience entranced yet fully aware that film is a tricky mediator blurring the boundaries between fiction and reality.

Angelika Wang

Born in Jiayi in 1962, on the same day as Woody Allen. In 1985, her documentary Jiuge (Nine Odes) won the Golden Harvest Awards’ 8mm Merit Prize. 25 years later, Angelika is now the Festival Director of the 7 th Taiwan International Documentary Festival. During those 25 years she has worked on stage drama, produced films directed by some of Taiwan’s biggest directors such as Hou Hsiao-hsien, Edward Yang, Sylvia Chang, Wang Shaudi and En Chen as well as making music videos for Lin Qiang, Wu Bai, and Zhang Zhen Yue. More recently she has been mainly organizing festivals, producing, directing. When not making films she likes kick back and grow some flowers.

Sing Song-yong

Awarded a PhD in film studies at the School of Literature, Language and Performing Arts, University Paris 10-Nanterre, France, Sing is currently assistant professor at the Graduate Institute of Animation and Film Art at Tainan National University of the Arts. He is also editor in chef of ACT and deputy editor in chief of Film Appreciation Academic Journal. His research interests include contemporary French film theory and aesthetics and he is currently working on issues of cinematic plasticity, contemporaneity of the history of cinematic style and theory of Chinese-language cinema. He has published and translated numerous essays in Film Appreciation Journal, Film Appreciation Academic Journal, ACT etc.

Tsao Wen-chieh

Born in 1963, Tsao received her Bachelor of Arts in Chinese Drama from Chinese Culture University, and her Master Degree in Psychology from Fu Jen Catholic University. Since 1986, she has devoted herself to film making, and directing TV programs. Her Please Come Home, My Boy won the Merit Prize at the 1998 1st Taiwan International Documentary Film Festival. She currently teaches documentary making.

Lee Da-yi

With a Master of Arts in Cinema Study at College of Staten Island, and a Master of Advanced Studies in Film Aesthetic at University of Paris 1, Lee has worked as a journalist, an international coordinator at Taipei Film Festival, and as a juror for the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival and International Digital Shorts Competition. He is the author of the book Hollywood Dream Factory, and English-Chinese translator of Reading Hollywood: space and meanings in American film.

Wood Lin

Born in 1981 and he received his Master degree from the Graduate Institute of Sound and Image Studies at Tainan National University of the Arts, Lin is a film critic and festival organizer specializing in documentary. He is the editor in chief of Taiwan Documentary E-paper, the executive director of Taiwan Documentary Media Worker Union, and programmer for the 2010 Taiwan International Documentary Festival.

Kuo Shiao-yun

Kuo works as an independent filmmaker and producer and prefers to document non-mainstream people and issues. She has been working as a producer, director, and instructor in the field of documentaries. Her works include The Taste of Plum (2004), Rock the Boat (2006), The Unreachable Love (2008), Nothing to Do with Love (2010).

Chen Mi-chuan

Born in Tainan, Taiwan, Chen graduated from University of Oregon, and worked for Taiwan American Foundation. She was a member of the selection committee for the Woman Make Waves Film Festival and the 6th Taiwan International Documentary Festival in 2008. She currently works as a translator and editor.

Huang Chien-hung

PhD in Philosophy at the University of Paris 8. He is now an assistant professor at the Department of Fine Arts, Taipei National University of the Arts. He publishes and translates articles on film and art for various magazines. Two of his important translation works for Taiwanese students are Cinema 1: The Movement Image and Cinema 2: The Time-Image

Kelly Y. L. Yang

Kelly graduated from the Department of Theatre Arts, Chinese Culture University. She founded Filmism e-paper. She was editor-in-chief of several film festival catalogues and worked as programmer for the 2006 Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival, 2007 Taipei Film Festival. She is currently a freelancer, writing film reviews and movie scripts.

Lai Yu-chang

Born in 1975, Lai received a Master Degree from Graduate Institute of Studies in Documentary at Tainan National University of the Arts. In addition to working as a cinematographer and documentary filmmaker, Lin is also South Taiwan Film Festival’s programmer and competition coordinator.

International Feature Length Competition Jury

Peter Wintonick

A Canadian filmmaker, critic and film-thinker. Well known around the world as a documentary diplomat, he spreads the gospel according to reality through his films. He advises festivals, organizes conferences about crossplatform docs and greenmedia issues and holds workshops with emerging filmmakers.

Kidlat Tahimik

Born in 1942 in Baguio city, the Philippines. After studying business management in the US, in 1972 he tore up his diploma and became an artist. He has worked continuously as a unique independent filmmaker since his 1977 debut with Perfumed Nightmare.

Jane H.C. YU

Jane YU is a programmer and a film critic. For the past 15 years, she had been programming for Women Make Waves Film Festival, Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival, Taiwan International Film Festival, etc. and was a columnist for newspapers. Now she is the Program Director of Taipei Film Festival. She also serves as a select committee member of AND (Asian Network of Documentary) since the founding of AND in 2006, and teaches film art courses in university.

International Short Film Competition Jury

Heddy Honigmann

A child of Holocaust survivors, was born in 1951 in Lima, Peru, where she studied biology and literature at the University of Lima. She left Peru in 1973, traveled throughout Mexico, Israel, Spain and France, and later studied film at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome. Since 1978 she has been a Dutch citizen and presently lives in Amsterdam, although her filmmaking career has taken her around the world. As the child of exiles, it's not surprising that the plight of exiles and outsiders is a recurrent theme in her documentaries, as is memory, music and love. Her subjects have included cab drivers in Peru, immigrant musicians on the Paris Metro, senior citizens in Brazil, and Cuban exiles in New Jersey.

Hong Hyosook

Born in 1968, Hong Hyosook was majored in French Language at Chung-Ang University in Korea. She was a founder of Women Film Group and worked at the representative of Seoul Visual Collective. As a documentary cinematographer, her works include Doomealee, A New School is Opening, On-Line: An Inside View of Korean Independent Film, and Reclaiming Our Names. Since 1997, she has started to work at PUSAN International Film Festival as a staff and is currently its programmer for Wide Angle Section. At present, she holds also the post of Director of Asian Cinema Fund (ACF).

Wang Shaudi

A charismatic leader in Taiwan film industry. She started Taiwan Original Filmmakers Union while making movies, documentaries, theatre plays and television dramas. Wang likes to share great laughs with the audiences. She is a self-proclaimed director at the age of five.

Asia Vision Award Jury

Lu Xinyu

Lu Xinyu is professor and director of the Broadcasting and Television Department, School of Journalism, Fudan Univisersity where she also serves as senior research fellow. Her many writings include Documenting China: The New Documentary Movement (Beijing, SDX Joint Publishing Company, 2003). Her research is focused on the relationship between visual culture in China, mass media and the social development. Originally trained in literature, she joined the faculty of Fudan University in 1993, shortly after completing the university’s Ph.D. program in Western aesthetics. Professor Lu recently spent a year as a visiting scholar in the department of cinema studies at New York University.

Abé Markus Nornes

Professor of Asian Cinema and Chair of the Department Of Screen Arts and Cultures, with joint-appointments in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, and the School of Art and Design. Nornes was also a coordinator for the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival off and on from 1990 to 2005, where he programmed major retrospectives such as Japan-America Film Wars, In Our Own Eyes—Indigenous People's Film and Video Festival, and Den'ei Nana Henge: Seven Transfigurations in Electric Shadows. Current projects include a book on calligraphy in East-Asian cinema, an edited volume on the pink cinema of Japan, a reader of Japanese film theory in translation and an investigation into the curious pleasures of ski porn.

Wang Pai-zhang

He studied Movie & Art Theory in Paris. Found “Image Movement Association” in 1999, initiated experimental movie and alternative program. Was the festival director of 2004 Taiwan International Documentary Film Festival. Also worked as festival director in P.O.P Cinema in SPOT-Taipei Film House. Currently, he works in Taiwan Public Television Service Foundation.

Taiwan Award Jury

Sally Berger

Studied cinema at the Tisch School of Arts at New York University. Then, between 1989 and 1994 she developed many of the activities at the basis of her career. She also programmes the MoMA Mondays, during which she show the work of filmmakers and video makers. She is a media and film lecturer and writer.

Assistant curator of The Department of Film & Media at MoMA. Working at the Museum since 1986, she organizes film and media exhibitions, acquisitions, and the permanent collection. Recent exhibitions include the annual Documentary Fortnight, First Nationals First Features, and MoMA QNS Projections, a series of video installations for the Museums public spaces.

Wu Wenguang

Wu Wenguang was born in southwestern China's Yunnan province in 1956. He studied Chinese Literature in Yunnan University. After the university, he was a teacher at a junior high school for three years, and then worked in the television as a journalist. In 1988, Wu left the television and move to Beijing became an independent documentary filmmaker, dance theater maker and freelance writer.

Lin Wen-ling

Ph.D. in Anthropology & Philosophy in Georg-August University, Germany. She is professor of College of Humanities and Social Sciences, National Chiao Tung University, her research focus on visual anthropology, ethnography and image, indigenous filmmaking and gender studies. She is also the festival director of Taiwan International Ethnographic Film Festival.