2022 International Nominations Council

Hong-Joon Kim was Festival Director of the Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival and Commissioner of the Korean Film Council from 2000-2005. He is the Artistic Director of the Chungmuro International Musical Film Festival. His published books include I, a Filmmaker: Kim Hong-Joon’s Film Notes and Two or Three Things You Want to Know About Movies. Hong-Joon Kim is an award-winning director, and screenwriter of films including Jungle Story and La Vie En Rose. He hosted and co-wrote the television series Korean Classical Cinema Special. Hong-Joon Kim is currently a director of Korean Film Archive and a professor emeritus at Korea National University of Arts.

Dr Anne Démy-Geroe is a film curator and lecturer specializing in Asia Pacific cinema at Griffith University. She is an inaugural member of the Nominations Council for the Asia Pacific Screen Awards, Joint President of NETPAC, the Network for the Promotion of Asia Pacific Cinema and a Co-Director of the Asia Pacific Screen Lab. Anne was the inaugural Director of the Brisbane International Film Festival from 1991 to 2010 and co-founder and co-Director of the Iranian Film Festival Australia from 2010 to 2017. She has curated many regional festivals and international retrospectives. She has served on many international film juries throughout Asia including both India and Iran, was a judge on the Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards (Scriptwriting) from 2001 to 2010, and chaired the APSA Children’s Film Fund Panel for several years. A past Council Member of the National Film and Sound Archive, in 2003 she was awarded an Australian Centenary Medal for services to the film industry. She has written a number of articles and chapters on Iranian cinema and her book, Iranian National Cinema was published by Routledge in 2018.

Anderson Le diligently works in the global promotion of independent and world cinema as Artistic Director of the Hawaii International Film Festival (HIFF). In addition to his duties at HIFF, Le also serves as a program consultant for several film festivals including the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival and the Far East Film Festival in Udine, Italy, Singapore International Film Festival and Reel Asian in Toronto. Le previously worked as the international programmer for Comcast, working in providing monthly content for Xfinity on Demand with a focus on Asian and Asian American content. In 2012, Le co-founded You Offend Me You Offend My Family, the digit content offshoot of Perfect Storm Entertainment, FAST & FURIOUS director Justin Lin’s production company. In 2019, he co-founded EAST, a transpacific production company producing global content. Their first productions included ROM (2019), which won the New Currents Prize at Busan, and BE WATER (2020), an official selection of both Sundance and Cannes Film Festivals. Their latest project MAIKA (2022) was an official selection of Sundance.

An alumnus of the prestigious Film and TV Institute of India, Pune in 1983. Bina has been working as a Film Editor for the last thirty years. She has worked with many leading filmmakers in India and has won several State and National Awards for Editing. Some of the films she has edited are: Amma Ariyan Dir: John Abraham, Agnisakshi Dir: Shyamaprasad, Janmadinam Dir: Suma Josson, Mitr, My Friend Dir: Revathi, Dance like a Man Dir: Pamela Rooks, In Othello Dir: Roysten Abel, Daya Dir: Venu.

Bina has also worked as Director on Documentary films. Her latest film on Women in Universities The Sound of Silence has been screened at numerous National & International Film Festivals. As Executive Producer, Bina has worked on various film campaigns on tobacco use, elder care, diabetes management and palliative care. This has involved research, direction and production. Along with filmmaking Bina has also been the Artistic Director of the International Film Festival of Kerala and the International Short and Documentary Festival of Kerala since its inception. She has served on Juries at numerous festivals including Berlin, Durban, Locarno, Romania and Zanzibar. Bina regularly curates programs for film festivals in India and abroad.

Delphine Garde-Mroueh has had more than 15 years experience in the film, art, and cultural industries in the United Arab Emirates. For ten years she was the Head of Programme Administration & Film Services for the Dubai International Film Festival and programmed the highly-regarded Arabian Nights section. Pursuing her aim to connect audiences to Arab and world cinema, champion emerging and acclaimed filmmakers, and promote Arab film and talent on the international stage, she is currently collaborating on various research and curation projects.

Dr. Gulnara Abikeyeva, known Kazakh film critic and film researcher. Since 2005 to 2013 she was an artistic director of the International Film Festival Eurasia in Almaty. During different years she made film magazines Asia-kino, Territoriya Kino as editor-in-Chief, TV programmes about Kazakh cinema. As a member of FIPRESCI and NETPAC she is a frequent jury member on different international film festivals. She was Fulbright scholar in USA (2001-2002) and read lectures in Pittsburgh, Harvard, Yale, Tafts Universities. Recently she was a research scholar in Japan (2018-2019) and read lectures in Hokkaido, Tokyo and Kyoto Universities. She is the author of ten books about cinema, mostly about Kazakhstan and Central Asian countries. First book was New Kazakh Cinema (1998), next – Cinema of Central Asia: 1990-2001 was awarded by “White Elephant” award of  Gild of film critics of Russia as the best book about cinema of the year published in CIS. The book Nation-Building in Kazakhstan and other Central Asian States, and How This Process is Reflected in Cinematography’ (2006) was awarded by national prize “Kulager” as the best book of 2007 in Kazakhstan. In 2013 she has three international publications: in Great Britain – Cinema in Central Asia. Rewriting Cultural Histories, co-edited by Michael Rouland and Birgit Beumers, in South Korea – The Unknown New Wave of Central Asian Cinema, co-edited by Kim Ji-Seok and in Russia in one of the best publishing houses (New Literary Observation, Film texts series) Mahmalbaf’s Film House. Now she is a professor in Turan University in Almaty were she gives lectures on film history and film theory.

Kiki Fung is Programmer for the Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF). She was previously Head Programmer for the Brisbane International Film Festival (BIFF) and Brisbane Asia Pacific Film Festival (BAPFF), and Industry Consultant for the Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA). She has guest-curated for the Brisbane Festival and Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art, and was Film Program Manager for the Melbourne International Arts Festival.

Before moving to Australia in 2010, she served at the Hong Kong Film Archive for seven years in areas of publication editing, management and program co-ordination. She is a member of the Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema (NETPAC) and a committee member of the Hong Kong Film Critics Society; her recent essays published in Wong Ain Ling’s The Cinema of Wong Kar-wai and HKIFF Society’s Naruse Mikio, 110th Anniversary.