Alfred CHANG<\/p>
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nPen 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.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n
Ix Wong<\/p>
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nIx 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\u2014where dance and film converge, and creation becomes a quiet act of rebirth.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n
Melissa Leung Hiu Tuen<\/p>
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nMelissa 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.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n
Kay Lok Ka Eric<\/p>
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nEric 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.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
Semi Final Jury<\/p>\n\n\n
Timmy Chih-ting CHEN<\/p>
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nTimmy 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\u2019s Forum section.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n
Kevin CHEUNG<\/p>
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nKevin 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\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n
TSANG Tsui-shan<\/p>
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nTSANG 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\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
Final Jury<\/p>\n\n\n
Sang Jijia<\/p>
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nCCDC\u2019s 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 Prot\u00e9g\u00e9 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 \u2018Distinguished Achievement Awards\u2019 by the 25th Hong Kong Dance Awards and \u2018Artist of the Year (Dance)\u2019 by the 18th Hong Kong Arts Development Awards.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n
Leslie Raymond<\/p>
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nLeslie Raymond joined the Ann Arbor Film Festival as its executive director in 2013. In 2019, Raymond\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n
Ernest Chan Chi-wa<\/p>
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nErnest 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 \u201cEdward Yang, 10-year Commemoration\u201d, \u201cIn the Mood for Films – 25th Anniversary of Jet Tone Films\u201d, \u201cStanley Kwan, Filmmaker in Focus\u201d, \u201cSoi Cheang, Filmmaker in Focus\u201d and \u201cLouis Koo, Filmmaker in Focus\u201d. 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.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n
Yim Sui Fong<\/p>
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nYim 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.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n
Kana Akahori<\/p>
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nKana Akahori is a film programmer based in Tokyo. Since 2019, she has been working at Image Forum, a center for experimental film in Japan, as a co-director of the Image Forum Institute of Moving Image and an assistant director of the Image Forum Festival, where she also serves as the pre-selection board member for the East Asian Experimental Competition.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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