2023 MPA APSA Academy Film Fund Jury
Andrew Pike is a film distributor, historian and documentary filmmaker. His company, Ronin Films, began theatrical distribution in 1974, focusing on films from Asia Pacific and Europe including many Chinese Fifth Generation films in the 1980s, and Japanese classics. The company’s Australian releases include Baz Luhrmann’s BAFTA-winning Strictly Ballroom (1992) and Scott Hicks’ Academy Award®-winning Shine (1996).
His directorial debut was Angels of War (1983), a documentary about Papua New Guinea’s involvement in WWII that won an Australian Film Institute Award. In 2007, Andrew Pike received an Order of Australia Medal and an honorary doctorate from the University of Canberra. For ten years until 2012, he served on various iterations of the Board of the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia and since 2017 he has been Director of the Canberra International Film Festival.
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Leena Khobragade
Leena Khobragade is currently the Director of Film Bazaar, South-Asia’s largest film market organised by the National Film Development of India Ltd. (NFDC). She has been working with NFDC for the last 27 years and is one of the founding members of NFDC Film Bazaar, when it was set up in 2007. She also handles the NFDC Screenwriters’ Lab.
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Marissa Anita
Marissa Anita is an Indonesian actress, journalist, and presenter. She began her career as a theater actress in 2005, but rose to prominence in 2008 as a news reporter and later anchor for Metro TV.
Her acting career took off in 2013 Indonesian drama In the Absence of the Sun, for which she won a Maya Award for Best New Actress as well as two Citra Award nominations for her supporting roles in films Galih & Ratna and Impetigore at the Indonesian Film Festival. In June 2021, Netflix released an Indonesian drama Ali & Ratu-Ratu Queens, with Marissa as one of the main cast – Marissa portrays the mother from a divorced household visited by her son in New York City to reconcile. She won the Piala Citra Award (Indonesia’s equivalent for the American Oscars) for Best Supporting Actress for this role.
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