Eye Catcher Global 2024
International Pitching Forum Regulation & Shortlist

Chairperson

• Jeremy Chua (Singapore)
  General Manager of Singapore International Film Festival, founder of independent film label Potocol, producing films, videos, installations and artworks for Asian auteurs. Chua served as a producer for award-winning films such as Some Rain Must Fall (Encounters Jury Prize Berlinale 2024), Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell (Cannes Camera d’Or 2023), Autobiography (FIPRESCI Venice 2022), Glorious Ashes (Nantes Golden Balloon 2022), and A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery (Silver Bear Berlinale 2016). Chua is an alumnus of Berlinale Talents 2017, SEAFIC 2017 and Torino Film Lab 2018. He was a programmer of the Pingyao Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon International Film Festival 2017 – 2023, and was awarded the FIAPF Award for Outstanding Contribution to Asia Pacific Cinema by the International Federation of Film Producers Associations in 2023.
  

• Dr. Lee Sangjoon (Korea | Hong Kong)
  A scholar of Asian cinema and media whose interests span South Korean cinema and popular culture, international film festivals, the Cultural Cold War, and the film and digital media industries in contemporary Asia. He has extensively investigated Asian cinema in its socio-historical and industrial contexts, paying particular attention to issues of the national and the transnational, questions of ownership and control, the new regionalism, industrial networks, and the unprecedented cultural flows and mixing in cinema and media around Asia and the globe.
  
  Lee is the author and editor of many books, including Cinema and the Cultural Cold War: US Diplomacy and the Origins of the Asian Cinema Network (2020; Korean edition in 2023 and Chinese edition in 2024), Hallyu 2.0: The Korean Wave in the Age of Social Media (2015), Rediscovering Korean Cinema (2019), The South Korean Film Industry (2024), and Remapping the Cold War in Asian Cinemas (2024). Lee is also a director of the Asian Cinema Research Lab (ACR Lab). His works have been translated into Korean, Japanese, Chinese, and Italian. In addition, Lee has taken an active role in leading, organizing, and coordinating academic activities as well as film festivals and screenings.

• Jacqueline Liu (Hong Kong)
  Hong Kong-based veteran film producer for independent and commercial films, including: Vital Sign (2023); Warriors of Future  ; The Way We Keep Dancing ; Keep Rolling ; The Secret Diary of A Mom-to-be ; Tracey ; Men on the Dragon ; Sisterhood ; Sky on Fire ; K ; Wild City ; The Great War; Merry go Round ; Soundless Wind Chime – Teddy Award nominee of the 59th Berlin Film Festival; Plastic City – Special Screening at the 65th Venice Film Festival; August Story – Best Film at Tainan Film Festival; and Butterfly – Opening Film of International Critics’ Week of the Venice Film Festival.

• Bobby Romia (Australia)
  Head of Development at Screen Australia with over 16 years of experience in the film and television industry as a producer, writer, development executive and broadcaster, Bobby oversees and leads the Development Unit to identify and effectively support Australian stories and talents. Prior to this, he was the Acting Senior Investment Manager at Screen NSW in Sydney, where he managed numerous television, online and feature film projects and talent escalation initiatives. Over the years, he has held business development and production positions at SBS Australia and the National Indigenous Television (NITV), and more. Bobby holds a Master of Arts in Screenwriting at the Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS).

• Derek Tsang (Hong Kong)
  A film director, screenwriter, and actor originating from Hong Kong. Better Days, Derek’s sophomore film, was nominated for Best International Feature Film at the 93rd Academy Awards, after winning eight awards at the 39th Hong Kong Film Awards; including Best Film and Best Director. Tsang’s solo directorial debut, Soulmate was critically acclaimed, earning him the Best Director at the 2017 Hong Kong Film Director’s Guild Awards and Best Actress for both leading actresses at the 53rd Golden Horse Awards. His latest directorial works include the first two episodes of Netflix’s latest big hit, the sci-fi epic 3 Body Problem.

• Felix Tsang (Hong Kong)
  Sales & Acquisitions Manager of Golden Scene, responsible for foreign film acquisition and distribution in Hong Kong, as well as sales of  local films in international film markets, such as Mad World, Still Human, and recently The Sunny Side of the Street and Fly Me To The Moon. In 2021 and 2022, he was invited to partake in The Rotterdam Lab as an Industry Expert, and was invited as a guest speaker at the inaugural Asian Film Awards Academy Film Camp in 2024. He is also the Chief Operations Officer of Golden Scene Cinema and a co-founder of Blacklight Artist Management.

• Elysa Wendi (Singapore | Hong Kong)
  Independent curator, artist and filmmaker working in between Hong Kong and Singapore. She co-founded Cinemovement – a platform for interdisciplinary film creation together with film producer Jeremy Chua in 2015. She now works as the curator for Jumping Frames – Hong Kong International Movement-image Festival and is currently exploring her works in film, photography, and performance.