2010 International Jury

A working peer in the UK’s House of Lords, he now focuses primarily on political and policy work in relation to education, the creative industries and climate change and in 2009, produced We are the People We’ve Been Waiting For, a thought-provoking documentary about the modern education system. He is Chancellor of the Open University. In 1998 he founded that National Teaching Awards which he Chaired until October 2008. He served as the first Chair of the General Teaching Council (2000-2002), and on a variety of other public bodies. He was founding Chair of the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts, and for ten years chaired the National Museum of Photography,

He served as the first Chair of the General Teaching Council (2000-2002), and on a variety of other public bodies. He was founding Chair of the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts, and for ten years chaired the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television, as well as serving as a Trustee of both the Tate Gallery and the Science Museum. He has also recently become a Trustee of the Eden Project. He was also Vice President and Chair of Trustees at BAFTA (British Academy of Film & Television Arts) from 1994 to 2004. He was appointed President of UNICEF UK in July

He was appointed President of UNICEF UK in July 2002, and played a key role in promoting UNICEF’s advocacy, awareness and fundraising objectives. He retired from this post in July 2009. In February 2006, became Deputy Chairman of Channel Four, and in April 2006 Chairman of Futurelab. In April 2007 he became the Chairman of Profero. In the same month he was also appointed Chairman of the Joint Parliamentary Climate Change Bill Scrutiny Committee. Also in 2007 he was appointed as Chairman of North Music Trust, The Sage Gateshead. Most recently he was made President of the FDA. David was awarded a CBE in 1982, received a Knighthood in 1995 and was appointed to the House of Lords in 1997. In France he has been

David was awarded a CBE in 1982, received a Knighthood in 1995 and was appointed to the House of Lords in 1997. In France he has been honoured as a Chevalier (‘85), Officer (’92) and, most recently (2006) Commander of Arts and Letters.

Serdar Akar is a multi-award winning filmmaker, born in 1964, in Ankara, Turkey. A graduate of both the Economic and Commercial Sciences Academy and the Cinema & TV Department of Mimar Sinan University he began his career working as assistant to several Turkish directors. In 1998 he wrote and directed the feature film On Board, followed by the multi-award winning Short Passes in Confined Spaces in 2000, based on his childhood memories and shot in the town where he spent his childhood.

After directing Maruf in 2001, he directed the renowned Valley of the Wolves: Iraq, which was the most expensive Turkish film ever made at that time and also became the highest grossing Turkish film of all time. He shifted his focus to television and went on to direct more than ten highly successful TV Series. In 2006 he formed his own company Filmakar and produced the much debated Barda. In 2007 he produced stage plays through his theatre company Tiyatroadam and, with seven feature films and 13 TV series to his name, he continues to be an academic lecturer at the Mimar Sinan University.

Salman Aristo is a multi-award winning writer, producer and director, born in Jakarta in 1976. Among his acclaimed works as a screenwriter is Laskar Pelangi(Rainbow Troops, 2008) which holds the record for the highest box office in Indonesian film history. Eleven of his other films, including Catatan Akhir Sekolah (2005), Garuda di Dadaku (2009) and Sang Pemimpi (The Dreamer, 2009), achieved significant success in Indonesia and received wide recognition on the international film festival circuit. Garuda di Dadaku(2009) won the Best Children’s Film at the Indonesia Film Festival and was nominated for Best Screenplay at both the Indonesia and Bandung Film Festival. Aristo has since adapted the screenplay into a novel along with two of his other screenplays Alexandria and Mimpi Sang Garuda. With a career spanning magazine editorships, three novels, more than 30 screenwriting credits across film, television and documentary films and numerous producing, directing and consulting credits, Salman Aristo enjoys sharing his experience and gives regular workshops in scriptwriting and filmmaking. He is crazy about books, music and soccer and would like to be remembered as a good storyteller. For him ‘life is about storytelling. The rest, is just details’.

Born in 1962 in Chimkent, Kazakhstan, Sergey Dvortsevoy graduated from the Radio Technical Institute for Aviation in Novosibirsk. As an Aeroflot manager he travelled the country, until he discovered an advertisement for Courses for Directors and Screenplay writers in Moscow. His first short film Scastidemonstrated his ability to show the world in its simplicity, its warmth and its strength. This wonderful mixture of naturalism and poetry was later called ‘new sincerity’ by the critics. Dvortsevoy has garnered more than 30 awards for his documentaries, including Paradise, Bread Day, High Way and In the Dark. Dvortsevoy describes his films not as documentaries but as life cinema: “I am as watchful as an eagle, my head rotates in a circle of 360 degrees”. His debut feature film, the internationally acclaimed Tulpan, premiered at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival winning the prestigious Prix Un Certain Regard. Tulpan went on to win major awards more than 17 film festivals and events around the world including Tokyo, London, Montreal, Reikjavik and Dubai, and was awarded Best Feature Film at the APSAs in 2008.

An award-winning Australian cinematographer, Ellery Ryan graduated with honours from Swinburne Film School and worked first as a camera assistant and then as DOP for legendary Australian director Fred Schepisi at The Film House in Melbourne, including as camera assistant on The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith. For more than 30 years, Ellery has been sought after as a DOP on commercials, feature films and in television. He has been nominated four times for the Australian Film Institute Best Achievement in Cinematography Award for his work on the feature films Spotswood, Angel Baby, That Eye, The Sky and Grievous Bodily Harm, winning in 1991 for Spotswood and again in 1995 for Angel Baby. He has won several awards and distinctions from the ACS including a Golden Tripod for Dead Letter Office (1999). Most recently he has completed the feature films Van Diemen’s Land (ACS National Award of Distinction 2010) and the recently released romantic comedy I Love You Too. Ellery’s many other credits include the classic Australian feature films Cosi and Death in Brunswick. His substantial television career includes telemovies, mini-series and series including The Secret Life of Us, The Great Bookie Robbery and Glass Babies. His career in advertising has seen him shoot commercials in Australia, USA, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Thailand, UK, Ireland, Korea, France and Greece.

Ming Zhenjiang is the First Deputy President of the China Film Producers Association, FIAPF’s official representative in the People’s Republic of China. He is on the national committee of China’s Federation of Literature and Arts Associations, a standing council member of China’s Association of Film Artists and a Vice President of China’s Film Reviewers Association.

He is one of China’s best-known movie producers and reviewers and a highly regarded poet and writer. Ming Zhenjiang has been responsible for over 50 feature films which have won several Chinese and international film awards, including Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Awards. Charging Out Amazon screened at the Kennedy Art Centre in the US and won the 2002 Golden Rooster for Best Film and other titles include On the Taihang Mountains, An Earth Shaking Event and My Personal Long March. He has produced more than 50 documentaries as an organiser.

In recent years Ming Zhenjiang has created and produced more than 60 TV series, including Surprising Assault of Soldiers which was screened widely on local television networks throughout China and won an Excellence Award at the Tokyo International TV Movie Festival. Ming Zhenjiang has published more than 100 articles about film and television and several appear in collections such as Treasury of Contemporary Chinese Thoughts.