Jury of TIDF 2006

International Feature Competition Jury

CHENG, Wen-Tang

Cheng, Wen-Tang was born in Ilan in Taiwan, he started his career in the film industry since 1982. Beginning in 1984, he joined a group that campaigned for the rights of the minority and made documentaries. In 1998 he began making narrative shorts. His first 35mm feature film Somewhere Over the Dreamland (2002) was won the Venice Critic's Week Award in the 59th Venice International Film Festival. The Passage (2004) is Cheng's second film, which cooperated with the National Palace Museum and Blue Cha-Cha (2005) is his latest one.

Jean Perret

Jean Perret was born in Paris in 1952 and lives in Geneva. He is the producer of a Swiss-French Television programme featuring creative independent documentaries. From 1990 to 1994, he was in charge of the section "Critic's Week" at the Locarno International Film Festival. He was also president of the Swiss National Association of Film Journalists. In 1995 he became director of the Nyon Festival, which was renamed "Visions du Reel". This festival soon became one of the most important "reality cinema" venues in Switzerland as well as on an international scale.

LI, Ying

LI, Ying was born in 1963. He began directing documentary films for China Central Television (CCTV) in 1984. He went to Japan in 1989 to carry out research on principles of visual anthropology. In 1993, he co-founded Dragon Films Inc. to create both TV programs and film productions. His first film 2H was made in 1998, and won the Netpac Award in 1999 Berlin International Festival. Since then he has worked on films that are integration of documentary and feature films in both Japan and China.

International Short Competition Jury

Amir Muhammad

Born in 1972 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. A writer and independent filmmaker based in Kuala Lumpur. He has been writing for the Malaysian print media since the age of 14. In 2000 he wrote and directed Malaysia's first DV feature, and his works have been featured in may international film festivals including Sundance and Berlin. He has also helped produce several other DV movies. His 2006 documentary The Last Communist was banned by the Malaysian government; he recently shot the sequel, Village Radio.

TSENG, Chuang-Hsiang

TSENG, Chuang-Hsiang was born in 1947, and received a B.A. from the Foreign Language Department of National Taiwan University and a M.A. from the University of Texas, Austin. After 1982, Tseng returned to Taiwan in pursue of documentary filmmaking. His film The Life Line won the Golden Grand Award. In 1983, he collaborated with directors Hou, Hsiao-Hsien and Wan Jen on the film The Sandwich Man and established himself as one of the promising Taiwan New Wave directors. He later began directing television dramas and documentaries, and is currently teaching at the National Taiwan College of Arts.

Fabio Wuytack

Fabio Wuytack was born in Belgium in 1981. He received a Master in audiovisual arts from Brussels' Film School with a specialization in film direction for documentaries. He started directing short films in 2000 and his work Two Hands won the Best International Digital Shorts Competition in the 2005 Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival. Fabio's other film, Made in Italy, won several awards including the Prize of the Jury "Regards Neufs" of Visions du Reel. He is currently working on his latest film, a feature length documentary, Padre Francisco.

Asia Vision Competition Jury

Jean-Pierre Rehm

Jean-Pierre Rehm is a graduate of the Ecole Normale Superieure and student of modern literature and philosophy. He has taught history and theory of art and film and worked for the French Ministry of Culture. After that he became the curator of exhibitions and head programmer for several institutes including the Cairo Museum of Modern Art, Yokohama Art Center in Japan, and Witte de With in Rotterdam. In addition, he writes regularly for various media: exhibition catalogues, artists and filmmakers monographs, art and cinema reviews. Since 2002, he is in charge of the International Documentary Film Festival of Marseilles, FIDMarseille.

Chalida Uabumrungjit

Chalida Uabumrungjit graduated from the Thammasat University with a B.A. in Journalism and Mass Communications, and also an M.A. degree in Film Studies from the University of East Anglia, UK. Since 1995, she became the Project Director of Thai Film Foundation while producing several short films. Later, she was involved with the Thai Short Film and Video Festival as the Festival Director and with the Bangkok International Film Festival as a Programmer. Since 2001, she was invited to numerous festivals as a juror. In 2006, Chalida was invited to Pusan International Film Festival as a selection committee for the Asian Network of Documentary.

YANG, Li-Chou

YANG Li-Chou graduated from Tainan National University of the Arts Graduate Institute of Sound and Image Studies in Documentary. An advocate for the rights of independent documentary filmmakers in Taiwan, he is now pushing to found a labor union for documentary filmmakers in Taipei. Many of his works including I Love 080, Floating Woman, Beyond the Mirage, and Tokyo in Someone Else's Shinjuku East have won awards from several international festivals. His latest film, My Football Summer, is a collaboration with director Chang Rong-Ji.

Taiwan Award Jury

Francois Fronty

As a film director and a graduate of the University La Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris with a Master in Cinema, Francois Fronty began making documentaries in 1995. His creative process leads him towards a filming exploration of fictional and documentary boundaries. He also writes about cinema for newspapers and theoretic publications. Francois is currently working on the post-production of his fictional short film and is a PhD candidate in Sorbonne Nouvelle's Cinema Department University (Paris). Starting in 2005, he became involved in leading writing script workshops in the Documentary School in Lussas (France) and Dakar (Africa).

Asako Fujioka

Born in 1966, Asako spent her childhood years in New York and Duesseldorf, Germany. She has been working with Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival since 1993; and between 1995 and 2003, she was coordinating the New Asian Currents program, a collection of films and videos by emerging documentarians from around Asia. Beginning in 1997, Asako became an associate of New Cinema from Japan, the pioneer initiative supporting producers and directors presenting new Japanese films overseas. In 2006, she was invited to Busan International Film Festival as a selection committee for the Asian Network of Documentary.

LEE, Hsiang-Hsiu

Born in 1964 in Taipei, Taiwan, Lee received her M.F.A. in Film and Media Arts from Temple University in 1998. Currently, Lee is an independent filmmaker, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Radio, Television and Film at Shih Hsin University. Her first documentary work, The Lost Kingdom won the NETPAC Prize for Special Mention in the 2000 Taiwan International Documentary Film Festival. Chronicle of the Sea, Nan-Fang-Ao is her second documentary, and won the Taipei Golden Horse Award for the Best Documentary in 2004.