Jury of TIDF 2016

Jury of Asian Vision Competition

Luciano BARISONE

A film-club host, journalist and film critic for specialist magazines, BARISONE has contributed to numerous international film festivals since 1997. In 2002 he founded the Alba Infinity Festival, for which he acted as artistic director until 2007. From 2008 to 2010 he was the artistic director at Festival dei Popoli in Florence. He has been the director of Visions du Réel since 2011. He also served as a jury member at Cannes, FID Marseille, DocLisboa, Cinéma du Réel, Jihlava, IDFA, Krakow, Busan, RIDM, Locarno and many other festivals.

Amelia HAPSARI

HAPSARI is the programme director of In-Docs, where she designs documentary workshops, produces documentary films, and establishes strategic partnerships that promote Indonesian documentaries. She holds a master’s degree in Communications from Ohio University and has extensive experiences in non-profit management, capacity building and filmmaking. Her directorial short documentaries Fight Like Ahok and Roots have won Best Short Documentary at XXI Short Film Festival and Festival Film Dokumenter in 2012 and 2013.

Hung Hung

Hung Hung is the pseudonym of YEN Hung-ya, an award-winning poet and author of short fictions, essays and theatre criticism. He has been the curator of Taipei Poetry Festival since 2004 and the programme director of New Taipei City Film Festival from 2012 to 2014. Having directed around ten narrative and documentary films, he was awarded Best Director at Festival des 3 Continents, FIPRESCI Prize at Chicago Film Festival, and Best Original Screenplay at Golden Horse Awards.

Jury of International Competition

Abbas FAHDEL

FAHDEL is an Iraqi-French film director, screenwriter and film critic born in Babylon, Iraq. Based in France since the age of 18, he studied cinema at the Sorbonne University until gaining a PhD. In 2002 he returned to Iraq and filmed the documentary Back to Babylon. The country's dramatic situation is the background of this introspective investigation. His new film Homeland (Iraq Year Zero), a monumental documentary of 334 minutes, is selected and awarded by Visions du Réel and many other renowned film festivals.

KIM Dong-won

KIM is a documentary filmmaker born in 1955. He founded PURN Production in 1991. His work Repatriation received the Freedom of Expression Award from Sundance Film Festival in 2004. He currently teaches in the Department of Broadcasting at Korea National University of Arts.

KUO Ming-jung

Born in 1979, KUO holds a BA in Journalism from National Chengchi University and an MA in European Cinema Studies from the University of Bath, UK. She has worked in both film distribution and production, for Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival, Taiwan International Animation Festival, and Encounters Short Film Festival, UK. She joined Taipei Film Festival in 2011, co-programming the ‘City in Focus’ and ‘Filmmaker in Focus’ strands. She became programme director in 2014 and also edited Portuguese Cinema (2015), a publication of the festival.

Jury of Taiwanese Competition

Ping Lu

Writing under the pen name Ping Lu, LU Ping has spent more than 30 years crafting novels, essays, poems, political and social commentary, and stage plays with an eye towards social progress and rethinking ingrained and traditional institutions. In December 2015 she published her latest novel The River Darkens. LU earned her master's degree from the University of Iowa. She lectures on such subjects as feminism, cultural criticism, and news commentary and she is a former cultural envoy of Taiwan to Hong Kong.

Mads MIKKELSEN

Mads B. MIKKELSEN has been a programmer for CPH:DOX since 2008. He is also an associate programmer for the Danish Film Institute / Cinematheque and a frequent contributor to various national and international magazines and publications about film. He has served on the juries at renowned festivals such as Visions du Réel, Cinéma du Réel, Gothenburg IFF, Punto de Vista and Cinema Eye Honors among others.

ZHAO Liang

ZHAO is a documentary film director. His latest work Behemoth was in the Official Competition at Venice Film Festival 2015. With his unique vision and acute reflections on social issues and conditions, he has been extending the frontiers of documentary filmmaking in China today. His award-winning Crime and Punishment was an exploration of military law enforcement in China. His Petition followed a group of disgruntled citizens from 1996 to 2008, and was screened at the Cannes Film Festival and awarded at various festivals.

Jury of Chinese Documentary Award

Jimmy CHOI

An ardent cinephile and film promoter, Jimmy CHOI studied film, TV production, and media in New York. He has worked in the Hong Kong film industry under renowned filmmakers, initiated and co-founded ‘Videopower’ to make documentaries with underprivileged people. He set up IFVA, a hotbed of independent filmmaking, and co-founded the first Hong Kong – Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF). He also contributed film programmes for MoMA, Hong Kong IFF and Sydney Festival. He is now teaching part-time at various universities.

Marek HOVORKA

Born in Jihlava, HOVORKA is the director of Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival and has always been interested in current cultural issues. In 1997 he founded Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, the biggest festival of its kind in Central and Eastern Europe, accompanying with the East Silver market for documentaries from East European region. The festival’s main motto is ‘Thinking through film!’ He has also been invited as a jury member for Visions du Réel, Doku.fest Munich and Krakow IFF.

LUNG Ying-tai

Former Minister of Culture, LUNG is also a celebrated writer, literary critic and public intellectual. Having written 30 books, she not only has a large number of devoted readers in her native Taiwan, but also has great influence in the Chinese-language world in Hong Kong, China and North America. She made an extensive overhaul of outdated rules and regulations in the fields of cultural development. She is the chairperson of Lung Ying-tai Cultural Foundation and is now fully engaged in her new writing projects.

Jury of Author’s POV Award

CHEN Yu-ching

Born in 1975, CHEN studied film production at CinéCréatis, Nantes, France. Her work focuses on human rights, human condition and environmental issues, and she hopes to realise her dreams through aesthetics, words and images. Her documentary Civil Disobedience won the Grand Prize of the Taiwanese Competition at TIDF in 2014 and the Golden Harvest Awards in 2015. She currently works as a freelance filmmaker.

LIN Jing-jie

LIN has been exploring art media in writing, filmmaking and theatrical directing. He has won major literary prizes and is regarded as one of the most promising film directors in Taiwan. His awarding winning films include My Own Personal Gun, My Own Private Green Island and We Don’t Have a Future Together. His narrative feature The Most Distant Course earned the Jury's Mention at Taipei Film Festival and Critics' Week Award at Venice Film Festival in 2007.

WU Hsiu-ching

A documentary filmmaker, WU received her MFA degree from School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her film Coming Home was awarded Best Documentary at Golden Harvest Awards in 1998 and was nominated for Best Documentary Film at Golden Horse Awards. Her most recent work Song of the Reed was nominated for Best Documentary Feature at Women Make Waves Film Festival Taiwan. She is now an assistant professor in the Department of Motion Picture at National Taiwan University of Arts.

Jury of Next Generation Award

WU Han-lin, LU Chia-jeng, LIN Tzu-chiang, LIN Chih-wen, HUNG I-hsing, CHANG Jie, CHANG I-chieh, JHUANG Meng-zu, GUO Fang-ming, CHEN Yu-hua, YOU He-cian, YU Chih, WEN Hui-chen, LIAO Pei-ju, LIU Jun-jie, OU-YANG Ju-hsin, TSAI Meng-shiou, TSAI Tsung-hung, LO Yu-hsiang