2018 APSA Selection Panel

A journalist since 1960, a broadcaster since 1973 and a film critic since 1988. She won the BP Arts Media award in 1989 and the Geraldine Pascall award for her film criticism in 2003.

South Asia Consultant to the Berlin International Film Festival. Former consultant to Toronto, Locarno, Busan, World Cinema Amsterdam, Kerala and Mumbai film festivals.

The first indigenous Fijian (from Rotuma) to make a feature film. Titled The Land Has Eyes (2004), it won several awards and was submitted to the Academy Awards®.

Former President of Australian Teachers of Media Queensland, former Education Officer for Screen Queensland and youth programmer for Brisbane International Film Festival

Former Film Director Asia Pacific Screen Awards, Asia Pacific consultant Antalya Film Forum, Producer.

Co-founder of independent Indonesian film community Fourcolours Films. Producer of The Seen and Unseen, 2017 APSA winner for best Youth Feature.

Award-winning documentary filmmaker and Film Academic and member of Emmy International. AACTA-nominated producer of Jill Bilcock: Dancing the Invisible about 2017 APSA International Jury President Jill Bilcock.

Film critic and programmer of Seoul Eco Film Festival and former programmer for Seoul Independent Film Festival, DMZ International Documentary Film Festival and EBS International Documentary Festival.

Vicki Hansen has over 20 years of experience in composing music for Film, TV, Theatre, Circus and Dance. To date she has composed music for more than 500 documentaries for clients including Channel 9, ABC, SBS, Al Jazeera English, Beyond Productions and many more, about a wide range of subjects varying in style and genre, as well as feature-length movies, short films, advertisements, trailers, corporate videos and much more.

Dr Craig Morgan is an active Board Member of the Australian Guild of Screen Composers (AGSC). He was recently assigned the ‘Chair of the Mental Health and Well-Being Subcommittee’ because of his tireless work illuminating the needs of the AGSC membership regarding their Mental Health and Well-Being. Craig is an annual jury member for the Australian Academy of Cinematic and Television Arts (AACTA), Tropfest, Tropscore and KidzFlickz. He holds a Graduate Diploma of Screen Music from Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS) – his project ‘PIG’ was an Official Selection 61st Berlin International Film Festival in 2011. Craig also holds a Master of Science (MSc) from Macquarie University and a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) from The University of Sydney.

Born in Melbourne, Robert J. Sedky studied composition at Latrobe University, and has worked tirelessly and passionately since his graduation. He composed the score and sound design for Monster Media’s production of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest at the Melbourne Theatre Company (2017); he composed the score for the Academy Accredited Beast, winner of Best Australian Short Film at Flickerfest (2017); and he received his first international score nomination for the film 10 Grand at Cinefest (2018). Sedky was the recipient of Creative Victoria’s Artist in Schools program (2016).

Producer of high-end documentaries and celebrated television including Kim Dotcom: Caught in the Web which received a Special Mention in the Best Documentary Feature Film category at APSA 2017.

Animation Professor at University of Technology Sydney, Founder and Former Festival Director of Japanime Film Festival, Former Co-Director of Sydney International Animation Festival.

CARL JOSEPH PAPA is a software engineer by profession but filmmaking has always been his passion. He first dabbled in filmmaking by making experimental and animated short films which have been showcased locally and internationally. His first feature experimental film, The Unforgetting, won NETPAC Jury Prize in QCinema International Film Festival 2014. In 2015 he made his first animated feature film Manang Biring. It was the first animated film to compete and to win Best Film in Cinema One Originals Film Festival 2015. The film also competed and was showcased in several international film festivals and is the first full length animated Filipino film to be selected for Annecy International Animated Film Festival, the premier festival worldwide for animation. In 2017 he made the stop-motion animated short film Love Bites, a finalist in QCinema International Film Festival 2017 and the Grand Prize winner of Animahenasyon 2018, a Philippines based animation festival. In 2018 he made his second animated feature film The Leaving (Paglisan) which won best film in 2018 Cinema One Original Film Festival. The film was also recognised by a number of local film awards.

Accomplished filmmaker and international specialist. Former festival curator for Stuttgart International Animation Festival and International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film.