Jury of TIDF 2022

Jury of Asian Vision Competition

Raul Niño ZAMBRANO

Raul NIÑO ZAMBRANO is the head of film programmes at Sheffield DocFest. He was previously a senior programmer at IDFA where he started as a programmer in 2008. During his tenure at IDFA, Raul conducted a ground-breaking study ‘The Female Gaze’ in 2014 on the position of women within the documentary world, and has initiated the IDFA Queer Day since 2013. In addition to being a lead programmer on the overall selection, he curated such programmes as Emerging Voices from Southeast Asia and Cinema do Brasil. He has participated in many international festivals as a juror and as an expert at If/Then Shorts Global Pitch, DocNet Southeast Asia, etc.

SEI Keiko

SEI Keiko is a writer, curator and media activist. After working as a video/media art curator in Japan, she moved to Eastern Europe in 1988 to research media situations in the region and initiated numerous projects such as The Media Are With Us!: The Role of Television in the Romanian Revolution  (Budapest, 1990) and many others. In 2002, she further expanded her research to Southeast Asia, started a film workshop and scholarship program in cooperation with FAMU and helped establish the Wathann Film Festival/Institute in Yangon, Myanmar. Keiko also writes for publications including Image Forum, springerin and published books. She has given numerous workshops on media art and activism worldwide and taught at Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic and Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design, Germany.

Singing CHEN

Singing CHEN is an acclaimed Taiwanese filmmaker whose diverse practice spans narrative feature, documentary, VR and mini-series. Her oeuvre brilliantly illustrates the absurdities of modern society using magical realism, and depicting characters and their plight with considerable depth to address the society's fundamental structural problems. Additionally, CHEN's expertise in scoring interweaves sound, music and images wittily, giving her films a distinctive rhythmic tone and framing a unique cinematic aesthetic. Her films have been nominated by numerous domestic and international festivals, including Berlinale, Golden Horse Awards, Busan IFF, etc. Selected filmography includes Bundled, God Man Dog, The Walkers, The Moving Tent, Afterimage for Tomorrow, and the latest miniseries Heaven on the 4th Floor.

Jury of International Competition

Tiny MUNGWE

Tiny MUNGWE is a filmmaker and arts manager. She currently works at STEPS, producing Generation Africa, a collection of 25 documentary films from 16 African countries. She has written scripts for the short film Evelyn and the South African TV series Muvhango and Matatiele. Her directorial works include the documentary Akekho uGogo, the short Daddy’s Boy and the TV series Uzalo. Formerly working as the programme manager at the Centre for Creative Arts (UKZN), MUNGWE has organised festival events for Time of the Writer, the Durban International Film Festival, Jomba! Contemporary Dance Experience and Poetry Africa, as well as Durban FilmMart and Talents Durban.

KIM Dongryung

KIM Dongryung is a Korean filmmaker. After graduating from the Korean Academy of Film Arts, she has been working on documentaries and visual arts dealing with people and spaces in the U.S. military base village since 2004. Her feature-length documentary debut, American Alley, won the Ogawa Shinsuke Prize in the New Asian Currents section of Yamagata IDFF. KIM’s other films Tour of Duty and The Pregnant Tree and the Goblin were also invited to screen at numerous domestic and international film festivals including Seoul Independent Film Festival, MoMA, IFF Rotterdam, etc. Tour of Duty won the Special Award in the International Competition at Yamagata IDFF while The Pregnant Tree and the Goblin won the Terayama Shuji Prize at Image Forum Film Festival.

KE Chin-yuan

KE Chin-yuan, commonly referred to as Master KE, won TIDF Outstanding Contribution Award in 2018, is a veteran filmmaker and producer at the News Department of Taiwan Public Television Service. Over the past three decades, he has devoted himself to environmental surveying, documenting the ecology mutations in Taiwan and bringing awareness to environmental degradation. He further advocates environmental justice by urging the implementation of Corporate Social Responsibility and monitoring the government to go green. Throughout KE’s career, he has created more than 27 documentaries, field journals of over 3,000,000 words, and 200,000 images on Taiwan’s terrain. His work has earned more than a hundred awards at home and abroad.

Jury of Taiwan Competition

María PALACIOS CRUZ

María PALACIOS CRUZ is a film curator, writer and educator. She is currently the director of Open City Documentary Festival in London. She has been a programmer for the Courtisane Festival since 2008 and was a member of the selection committee for Punto de Vista in Pamplona between 2017 and 2021. During that time, she also helped conceive and led the film curating course at Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola in San Sebastian, Spain. From 2015 to 2020, she was the deputy director of LUX, a UK agency for artists’ moving image. She writes regularly on artists’ moving image and avant-garde cinema and is a co-founder of The Visible Press. Together with Erika BALSOM, Beatrice GIBSON and Ben RIVERS, she programs ‘The Machine That Kills Bad People’, a bimonthly film club at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London.

THONG Kay Wee

THONG Kay Wee is a cultural worker and moving image curator based in Singapore. He is currently the programme director at the Singapore International Film Festival, where he is responsible for the festival’s overall programming strategy. He was previously the programmes and outreach officer at the Asian Film Archive from 2014 to 2021. Aside from offering artistic direction to the public programmes and overseeing partnerships, he had been responsible for establishing the AFA’s regular film programmes at its new cinematheque since 2019, with a focus on both contemporary and classic Asian film selections.

TSAI Tsung-lung

TSAI Tsung-lung is an independent documentary filmmaker and producer, currently serves as an associate professor of the Department of Communications at the National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan. As a filmmaker, TSAI has been taking a rational analytical and humane approach to his subjects such as human rights, judicial reform, environmental issues and culture diversities. He is known for his award-winning documentaries, including Killing in Formosa, Behind the Miracle, and Oil Disease: Surviving Evil. In 2006, TSAI and several documentary filmmakers organised the first labour union for documentary workers in Taiwan and later edited The Love and Hatred of Documentaries (2009), a publication that features the interviews of 12 Taiwanese documentary directors.

Jury of TIDF Visionary Award

María CAMPAÑA RAMIA

María CAMPAÑA RAMIA is an Ecuadorian film curator based in Rio de Janeiro. She works currently as an associate programmer at IDFA, and is part of the programming team of MajorDocs. As a programmer, she had served as the artistic director for Ambulante and Encuentros del Otro Cine - EDOC for ten years. She has organised festivals and film showcases in Ecuador, Brazil, Colombia and the United States. She also writes for international journals and film publications, and collaborates with funds and institutions evaluating projects. In 2012, she co-edited the book El Otro Cine - Eduardo Coutinho and received a fellowship from the Flaherty Seminar. In 2015, she directed the short film Derivatives.

Kong RITHDEE

Kong RITHDEE is currently the deputy director of Thai Film Archive. He's also a film writer whose work has been published by The Bangkok Post, Asian Nikkei, Variety, and several other international publications over the past 25 years. With friends, he co-directed documentary films, The Convert, Baby Arabia, and Gaddafit, which were shown at various festivals including IDFA and Busan IFF. Besides his expertise in cinema, he's also a literary translator for Thai novels and essays.

ZHANG Jieping

ZHANG Jieping is an award-winning journalist, columnist, and media entrepreneur. She is the founder of Matters Lab, a decentralised media platform launched in 2018. Before that, she was the editor-in-chief and co-founder of the Initium Media, an online Chinese-language publication established in Hong Kong in 2015. She previously worked as an executive editor at City Magazine and reporter of Asia Week. She also served as university lecturer of Journalism in University of Hong Kong and Hong Kong Baptist University and is now teaching at National Taiwan University. She received tens of journalism awards from Asia. In 2010, SOPA (The Society of Publishers in Asia) named her Journalist of the Year.

Jury of Next Generation Award

WANG Chien-cheng, WANG Chia-peng, CHU Jia-le, WU You-ying, LEE Jr-wei, LIN Tzu-tsen, LIN Yu-hsi, HSU Jian-lian, HSU Tung-yu, KUO Ying-tsen, CHEN An-chi, CHEN Hsiao-yu, CHEN Jun-kai, CHEN Shao-ping, Alvin Chianyao CHEN, YANG Yi-syuan, YEH Yu-hsin, Dorcas LIAO, Carol LIAO, CHENG Yu-en, CHENG Yu-chi, CHENG Hsin-chou