Jury of TIDF 2010

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 cross- platform 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.