Jury of TIDF 2014

Jury of Asian Vision Competition

Mark PERANSON

A writer, programmer and filmmaker, he is editor and publisher of Cinema Scope magazine, for which he was awarded the 2010 Clyde Gilmour Award for contribution to advancement of film in Toronto. He had served as Head of Programming and selection committee for the Festival del Film Locarno, and is also a programming associate for the Vancouver International Film Festival (2000-present). His first film, Waiting for Sancho (2008), produced, directed, photographed and edited by PERANSON, screened at over 25 film festivals. His writing has appeared in myriad publications worldwide including The Village Voice, Cahiers du Cinema, Sight and Sound, Revolver, El Amante, The Globe and Mail, and Film Comment.

YEN Lan-chuan

Born in 1965, YEN graduated from Soochow University with degrees on philosophy and sociology, and received PGD on documentary production and master degree on film production from Sheffield Hallam University. Her films Let It Be (2004) and Hand in Hand (2010) have won the grand prizes of Taiwan Award in TIDF.

ZHANG Xianmin

ZHANG is a professor in Beijing Film Academy, founder of Indie Workshop in 2005, producer or co-producer of many feature movies. Founder of Heaven Pictures Indie Cinema, supported numerous film projects. He has also invited as a juror in various film festivals worldwide. Organizer of CIFF (China Independent Film Festival) and Chinese indie cinema events in Brasil, Italy, South Korea, Austria and France.

Jury of International Competition

Claude LANZMANN

Born in Bois-Colombes, France on November 27, 1925, Claude LANZMANN is a Paris-based filmmaker, writer and journalist, renowned for his unprecedented 'cinematic history of the Holocaust', the 9 1⁄2 hour documentary film Shoah (1985). In his work, Claude LANZMANN addresses questions of Jewish identity by turning to topics such as the Holocaust, openly opposing its prevailing commodification by the film industry. Instead, he presents the past and its contradictions as fractured and unresolved, refusing to create works that are easy to digest.

HATA Ayumi

HATA Ayumi holds MA in International Media Studies at the University of Ulster, UK, and Master of Literature in film history at the Graduate School of Languages and Cultures, Nagoya University, Japan. Her major is Japanese film history, with particular interests in documentary culture and theory. While publishing essays on Japanese independent documentaries of the 1960s and 70s for academic journals, she taught English and film culture at some universities in Nagoya until 2011. She has joined YIDFF Yamagata Office since April in the same year, serving as International Competition coordinator at YIDFF 2011 and 2013. She is also responsible for YIDFF 311 Documentary Film Archive project, which has just started this year.

Mayaw BIHO

Mayaw BIHO is a Pangcah (Amis Tribe) born in Makutaay tribe in Hualien, Taiwan. He received his degree in filmmaking in 1998. Mayaw BIHO's documentaries cover indigenous cultural, history and life, and have been selected by Taipei International Film Festival, South Taiwan Film Festival, TIDF, Margaret Mead Film Festival and various festivals. He ran in the legislator election for a seat of lowland-dwelling Aborigine. He used to be the director of Taiwan Indigenous TV.

Jury of Taiwanese Competition

Carine BERNASCONI

Collaborates for Cinéma du Réel in Paris since 2010 as a member of the selection committee. Previously she worked for the International Documentary Film Festival Visions du Réel in Switzerland. She was in charge of the pitchings and other co-production meetings for feature length documentaries and was part of the selection committee for the various competitions.
She worked several years for the Festival del film Locarno as editor in chief of the catalogue. She still collaborates with Locarno by animating Q&A and press conferences during the festival. Carine BERNASCONI is also preparing a Ph.D. in film theory at the University of Lausanne on the political function of Iranian cinema and writes film reviews for the French online magazine Critikat.

CHANG Hsiao-hung

She is a distinguished professor of Foreign Languages and Literature at National Taiwan University and an accomplished writer. CHANG's books include Postmodern Woman: Power, Desire and Gender Performance (1993), Queer Desire: Mapping Gender and Sexuality (1996), Encountering a Wolf in the Department Store (2002), Structures of Feeling (2005), Skin-Deep (2005), Fake Globalization (2007), Body Pliology (2009) and Monsters in Capitalism (2010).

Pimpaka TOWIRA

She was the program director for the Bangkok Film Festival. She has been invited as a jury member for many film festivals and won the Silapathorn Award (an honour for Thai contemporary artists) in 2009. She is the first female Thai director to be noticed by international viewers and critics. International acclaim came with her feature debut One Night Husband (2003). TOWIRA writes, directs and produces all her films. She has produced award winning documentary films, Agrarian Utopia (2009) and The Songs of Rice (2014), directed by Uruphong RAKSASAD.

Jury of Chinese Documentary Award

LEI Chin-pang

Born in Macau, BA in Journalism (Chengchi University, Taiwan), MA in Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature (Sun Yat-Sen University, Mainland China), PhD in Media and Cultural Studies (University of Sussex, England). He majors in pop culture, post-colonialism, Chinese film studies and gender studies, etc. He is now a senior lecturer in Department of Communication in University of Macau, chief editor of New Generation magazine, and columnist for Macao Daily News and Exmoo News.

Sarafina DIFELICE

Sarafina DIFELICE oversees the Programming Department at HotDocs. In addition to programming international documentaries for the Festival, she programs across Canada for Hot Docs' "Doc Soup" and "The Best of Hot Docs" screening series. She has been involved on a number of international juries, panels and funding organizations with organizations that include Cinema Eye Honors and Sundance Film Festival. Prior to Hot Docs, Sarafina worked at the Toronto International Film Festival as the Associate Programmer for TIFF Docs, TIFF Mavericks and The Doc Conference and The Canadian Film Centre.

SHEN Ko-shang

An acclaimed Taiwanese filmmaker, showing his talent with feature films, documentaries, experimental films. His early film Layover (1999) was selected in the official short film competition of Cannes International Film Festival. After that, he focused on documentary filmmaking, his films are diversity and unexpected, have screened in varios international film festival as well. The filmmaking is his denfitly career.

Jury of Author's Pov Award

LEE Jong-wang

Born in Chongli, Taiwan, LEE is a veteran photographer of TV productions. After years of producing variety shows, news programs and TV series, he founded Fullshot Studio with friends in 1988. Since then he has devoted himself in documentary filmmaking and teaching young documentary filmmakers. Fullshot Studio disbanded in 2006 but LEE continued his work in making and teaching documentary film. He is one of the few documantary filmmakers in Taiwan who has been working in this field for over 25 years.

LEE Li-shao

Born in 1968, graduated from the Department of Broadcasting and TV ,Shih-shin University,and studied at Beijing Film School, LEE Li-shao's filmmaking career began in 1999. His latest film Boundary Revelation (2012) was nominated for the best documemntary in Golden Horse Award and won the jury special prize of Taiwan Award in 2012 TIDF.

HO Chao-ti

Documentary producer and director. HO's films focus on globalization and contemporary culture, and had been screened in various film festivals worldwide. Her new project Turning 18 was supported by Sundance Institute Fund Award. She is the first Taiwanese filmmaker to receive this honour. She is now the Production Coordinator for CNEX Foundation Taiwan, dedicating herself to nurturing young filmmakers.

Jury of Next Generation Award

CHEN Fa-an, LIN Hsuan-chin, LIN Chu-wei, HUNG Yi-chieh, NI Yeh-hsuan, HSU Po- yu, LIEN Ta-ching, CHEN Yu-meng, CHEN Yu-ying, CHEN Wei-jung, CHEN Chia-hui, HUANG Zi-hao, HUANG Po-han, HUANG Ping-jui, HUANG Jing-yong, YANG Tsung-lin, CHAO Che-hsing, TSAI Hsin-yuan, CHENG Hsiang-hung, HSIAO Wan-yu, HSIEH Chia-hsuan