(In alphabetical order)

International Jury

Aditya ASSARAT (Thailand | Purin Pictures)

Aditya ASSARAT is a writer, director, and producer from Thailand. His feature films include Hi-So and Wonderful Town, which won the New Currents Award from Busan and the Tiger Award from Rotterdam. His most recent film, Ten Years Thailand, which he produced and co-directed, premiered in Cannes. In addition to his own films, Aditya has also produced the films of younger Thai directors such as Eternity by Sivaroj Kongsakul, which won the Tiger Award from Rotterdam, Mary is Happy, Mary is Happy by Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit, which premiered in Venice and W by Chonlasit Upanigkit, which premiered in Busan. Finally, Aditya is also the director of Purin Pictures, a non-profit foundation based in Bangkok that supports Southeast Asian cinema.

Min Bahadur BHAM (Nepal)

An award-winning filmmaker from Nepal, Min Bahadur BHAM graduated in Filmmaking and Literature. He has a master degree in Buddhist Philosophy and Political Science. His short film The Flute (2012) was the first Nepalese film presented at the Venice Film Festival in competition. He was a participant of Berlinale Talent Campus 2013, Asian Film Academy 2013, awarded the Fellowship Award. His directorial debut The Black Hen (2015) is the first feature film of Nepal presented in Venice Critics Week and awarded with FEDEORA Best Film Award. Also it was an official entry from Nepal to Oscar for the category of Best Foreign Language Film 2016. Currently, he is preparing his second feature film, A Year of Cold that was developed at Cinéfondation Residence, Festival de Cannes, Torino Film Lab, and Golden Horse, FPP.

Ash HOYLE (United States | The Sundance Institute)

Ash HOYLE is a features Programmer at the Sundance Film Festival. He focuses on both fiction, nonfiction, and Midnight. He has previously worked at Sundance as an Associate Programmer for shorts and features and to support Director of Programming, Kim YUTANI. Ash has also worked as the Director of Programming of Damn These Heels Film Festival, run by the Utah Film Center, as well as a Senior Programmer at Outfest Los Angeles and a Programmer at Palm Springs Shorts Fest. Ash is a 2021 Project Involve Fellow on Film Independent’s programming track and has also been involved in programming, NewFest NY, Sun Valley Film Festival, Overlook Film Festival, and AFI Fest and worked in production at ABC, Mssng Peces, and The Annoyance Theater. Ash is originally from Philadelphia, PA and holds a dual degree in Film & English from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY.

Joe HUANG (Taiwan | The South Taiwan Film Festival)

Joe HUANG, part-time teacher for film aesthetics, sees himself as a freelancer for film art, but somehow works like a blue-collar. He serves as South Taiwan Film Festival curator and several occupations (including jury) for 8 years after studying in Sound & Image Studies in management of TNNUA. Joe was invited as a guest curator and preliminary jury for several institutes and film festivals like Taiwan International Documentary Festival 2022, Busan Inter–city Film Festival, Macao International Documentary Film Festival, etc.

LIAO Jiekai (Singapore | 13 Little Pictures)

LIAO Jiekai is a filmmaker and artist based in Singapore. He is a founding member of the film collective 13 Little Pictures. Since 2005, he has directed a number of shorts and feature films, most notably Before the Wedlock House won the Best Documentary Short at the 2nd Salaya International Documentary Film Festival, and another short The Mist won the best director prize at Singapore International Film Festival’s Silver Screen Awards. His 2010 debut feature film, Red Dragonflies, won the Special Jury Prize at the Jeonju International Film Festival and was selected for competition at various film festivals such as Buenos Aires, Santiago, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Tokyo. In 2012, Jiekai was conferred the Young Artist Award by the National Arts Council of Singapore. 

Fransiska PRIHADI (Indonesia | ​​Minikino)

Fransiska PRIHADI is an architect, co-founder of art-house cinema MASH Denpasar in Bali. She is Program Director of Minikino and Minikino Film Week, Bali International Short Film Festival. She served as guest programmer & jury for various national and international short film festivals, with experience as facilitator and mentor for filmmaking and film festival writing workshops.

Local Jury

Jacqueline LIU

Jacqueline LIU is a Hong Kong-based film producer for independent and commercial film, recent titles are: Vital Signs (2023); Warrior of Future (2022) ; The Way We Keep Dancing (2020); Keep Rolling (2020); The Secret Dairy of A Mom-to-be (2019); Tracey (2018); Men on the Dragon (2018); Sisterhood (2016); Sky on Fire (2016); K (2015); Wild City (2015); The Great War (2013); Merry go Round (2010); Soundless Wind Chime (2009) Teddy Award nominee of the 59th Berlin Film Festival; Plastic City (2008) Special Screening at the 65th Venice Film Festival; August Story (2006) awarded Best Film at Tainan Film Festival; Butterfly (2004) Opening Film of International Critics’ Week of the Venice Film Festival.

Flora TANG

Tang joined mm2 Hong Kong in 2017, focusing on producing Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia films. She was the line producer of A Journey of Happiness (2019), and Walk with Me (2019), and the associate producer of Drifting (2021) and The Shadow (2022). Her recent work, The Narrow Road (2022), was nominated for 3 awards in Golden Horse Awards and 10 awards in Hong Kong Film Awards, and won the Best Original Film Score from both of the Awards.

POON Eric T.P.

Renowned television documentary writer and director, POON is currently an Associate Professor of Practice in the School of Journalism and Communication at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. For the past 20 years, he has been producing documentaries for RTHK’s flagship television programme Hong Kong Connection. His work has won numerous awards at local and international film and television festivals. He has also produced youth programmes such as the experimental cross-media project “HKfile.X”, which won the Best Mobile or Cross-Media Production at the International Media Excellence Award of the Association for International Broadcasting.

Elysa WENDI

Elysa WENDI is a dance artist, curator and filmmaker based in Hong Kong. After dancing professionally for a decade, she began experimenting on the notion of choreography through film, performances and curatorial projects since 2008. Integrating choreographic and performative approach in her filmic creation, her short film 1958 Delivery won the Best Experimental Film Award at the 2018 South Taiwan Film Festival, and her film Forgive or Not to Forgive won Best Documentary at Hong Kong ArtHouse Film Festival 2020. Her recent film As I Imagine My Body Moving received Gold Awards (Open Category) at the 28th ifva Film Award Hong Kong 2023.

Wendi co-founded Cinemovement – a platform for inter-disciplinary film creation together with Film Producer Jeremy Chua in 2015. Since then, she has been actively involved in producing, directing, and programming dance films. As one of the key drivers of such hybrid arts form in Asia, she has initiated many dance film collaborative projects, alongside facilitating six dance film laboratories in different Asian cities. Notable projects include Faraway My Shadow Wandered, a hybrid documentary feature which premiered in IFFR 2021 and went on to show in other festivals, such as Cinéma du Réel 2021.

The experience to be invited as a member of the jury in film festivals such as South Taiwan Film Festival 2019, Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival 2020, and Fifth Wall Fest Dance Film Festival Philippines 2020 has expanded Wendi’s exposure to festival making. In 2022 Elysa was appointed as festival director of Jumping Frames – Hong Kong International Movement-image Festival after her curatorial involvement with the festival since 2018.

As festival director, Wendi aspires to re-examine the boundaries of performance from an audio-visual perspective and experiment its fluidities. She anticipates to broaden Jumping Frames’ future possibilities as a platform to develop emerging voices in the fields of expanded media between somatic practices and image-making, cine-choreography and cinematic operations, as well as digital performance and technology.