TIDF Award winning ceremony to be held on May 12th Members of Competition Juries Announced

TIDF again boasts a strong line-up of international jury members. Outstanding festival curators, filmmakers, and professionals from arts and cultural circles from different parts of the world have joined the selection panels and competition juries. The exchange of diverse perspectives, combined with the expertise and professionalism of the jurors will become the result of the award winning titles for the 13th TIDF!

  

Jury members from Taiwan and Hong Kong include well-known director Singing CHEN, TIDF 2018 Outstanding Contribution Award winner KE Chin-yuan, independent documentary director and producer TSAI Tsung-lung, and Hong Kong media personality and entrepreneur ZHANG Jieping.

  

Jury of International Competition: Tiny MUNGWE, KE Chin-yuan, KIM Dongryung

The jury also includes three members from East and South East Asian countries,  Japanese curator and media advocate SEI Keiko; KIM Dongryung, a leading South Korean filmmaker; THONG Kay Wee, Program Director of the Singapore International Film Festival; and KONG RITHDEE, Deputy Director of the Thailand Film Archive.

 

Jury of Taiwan Competition: THONG Kay Wee, María PALACIOS CRUZ, TSAI Tsung-lung

Other international judges are Raul NIÑO ZAMBRANO, Head of Film Programme of the Sheffield Doc/Fest; Tiny MUNGWE, South-African cross-disciplinary curator and art director; María PALACIOS CRUZ, Programme Director of the Open City Documentary Film Festival, London; and María CAMPAÑA RAMIA, Programmer of the IDFA International Documentary Film Festival, Amsterdam. And finally, a youth jury of 23 high school students for the Next Generation Award that was established in collaboration with the Fubon Cultural and Educational Foundation.