Meet the Jury

Pen name: Ho Sau Sun. Former Competition Manager for the South Taiwan Film Festival (2013-2021) and now a film Distribution Manager based in Taipei. He pays ongoing attention to independent Chinese-language cinema and writes film criticism. He is also keen on documentary filmmaking.

Ix Wong, a Sabahan dance artist and self-taught designer, is known for weaving movement into fabric, capturing memories shaped by feeling. Renowned for his costume, prop, and set designs, his journey deepened after the passing of his partner, Hock. Transforming loss into motion, he now works closely with directors, artists, and friends—where dance and film converge, and creation becomes a quiet act of rebirth.

Melissa is currently the Company Dramaturg of CCDC. Enriched by cross-cultural and cross-media expertise, she has worked in diverse capacities including director, movement coach, performer, and dance dramaturge.

Eric Kay is the programme coordinator for City Contemporary Dance Company and Jumping Frames. He holds a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Film, Television, and Digital Media from Hong Kong Baptist University. A passionate cinephile and former journalist. Kay is now a documentary and independent filmmaker, currently working on his debut feature-length documentary, A Malady of the Cities.

Timmy Chih-ting CHEN is Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies at the Hong Kong Metropolitan University. Dr. Chen has published in A Companion to Wong Kar-wai (Wiley Blackwell), the Journal of Chinese Cinemas, Surveillance in Asian Cinema (Routledge), The Assassin (HKU Press), Frames Cinema Journal, Sound Stage Screen, and Film Quarterly. He has served as jury for the Hong Kong Fresh Wave International Short Film Festival, the ifva Awards, the Singapore International Film Festival, and the Berlinale’s Forum section.

Kevin Cheung, Programme Manager of City Contemporary Dance Company. Graduated from the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong, he is currently pursuing MFA in Drama and Theatre Education at The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. Cheung’s work focuses on the interdisciplinary dialogue between theatre and moving images. He has participated in various projects that intersect live performance and media-based creation, spanning programme curation, audience engagement, and arts administration. He previously worked with the Hong Kong Repertory Theatre and later served as a producer for theatre productions involving inclusive arts, educational theatre, and community-based cultural initiatives, continuously exploring meaningful intervention of art over the social and public domains.

TSANG Tsui-shan, an award-winning director and the first Hong Kong filmmaker to present VR dance work at the 79th Venice International Film Festival. Tsang’s works span documentaries, feature narratives, advertising and series. Since 2015, she has experimented with screen dance and presented works at various festivals across Europe and North America. Her notable feature films include Big Blue Lake (2011), Flowing Stories (2014) and Winter Chants (2023) among others.

CCDC’s Artistic Director Sang Jijia has won numerous international dance awards as well as the Asian Cultural Council Fellowship to study in the US. In 2002, he was chosen by the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative to study choreography under William Forsythe in Germany and stayed on at Ballet Frankfurt and the Forsythe Company as assistant choreographer and dancer. In 2023, he was awarded the Honorary Fellowship by the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. In 2024, he was presented with ‘Distinguished Achievement Awards’ by the 25th Hong Kong Dance Awards and ‘Artist of the Year (Dance)’ by the 18th Hong Kong Arts Development Awards.

Leslie Raymond joined the Ann Arbor Film Festival as its executive director in 2013. In 2019, Raymond’s leadership role expanded to include festival programming. Prior to her position with AAFF, as a teaching artist and educator, she founded the New Media Program at University of Texas at San Antonio and served as an assistant professor of art in digital video and new media art at Oakland University, where she was recognized with an Innovations in Teaching award. She holds a BFA in film/video from the Rhode Island School of Design, MFA in new genres from the University of Michigan School of Art & Design, and also studied film, video, and new media art at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Ernest Chan Chi-wa is a member of the Hong Kong Film Critics Society. In recent years he has worked as the Chinese editor for the Hong Kong International Film Festival, and served as co-editor of a series of books, including “Edward Yang, 10-year Commemoration”, “In the Mood for Films – 25th Anniversary of Jet Tone Films”, “Stanley Kwan, Filmmaker in Focus”, “Soi Cheang, Filmmaker in Focus” and “Louis Koo, Filmmaker in Focus”. He has also served as jury for Golden Horse Awards, Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival NETPAC Award and FIPRESCI Prize, and Kaohsiung Film Festival International Short Film Competition.

Yim Sui Fong is an artist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Fine Arts at The Chinese University of Hong Kong whose research focuses on socially engaged art, sound art, essay film, and experimental pedagogy. Her recent research focuses on sound, memory, and participation as methods to rehearse collective imagination. She received the Award for Young Artist (Visual Arts) from the Hong Kong Arts Development Council (2019/20) and the WMA Masters Award (2017/18) from the WYNG Foundation. She is the co-founder of the charity organization Rooftop Institute and a board director of HASS Lab, actively initiating public engagement programs on research, practice, and artist-led education.

Yuki Aditya graduated from University of Indonesia majoring in Fiscal Administration. He once worked as a Tax Auditor at a Public Accountant in Jakarta. He is now the Artistic Director of ARKIPEL International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival since 2013, and also acting as producer of films produced by Forum Lenteng. Yuki Aditya has worked as jury members of several international film festivals such as Kasseler Dokfest Film and Video Festival (Germany, 2018), Taiwan International Documentary Film Festival (2024), International Film Festival Rotterdam (2025), and Festival Film Dokumenter (2023).