2024 MPA APSA Academy Film Fund Jury
Kiki Fung is Programme Consultant for the Hong Kong International Film Festival and former Head Programmer for Australia’s Brisbane International Film Festival and Brisbane Asia Pacific Film Festival. She has guest-curated for the Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane Festival, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (Sydney), and Hong Kong’s Film Programmes Office. She is also on the nomination committee/council of the Asian Film Awards and the Asia Pacific Screen Awards, and a member of the Hong Kong Film Critics Society; her recent essays were published in Wong Ain Ling’s The Cinema of Wong Kar-wai (Chinese), HKIFF Society’s Naruse Mikio, 110th Anniversary (Chinese) and the Asian Film Archive’s website (English).
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Ridham Janve
Ridham Janve studied and practiced communication design before finding his calling in the moving images. His debut feature film, The Gold-Laden Sheep and the Sacred Mountain, premiered at Rotterdam and won the Silver Gateway Award at Mumbai and the FIPRESCI Prize at Hong Kong, amongst other awards and recognitions. He is an alumnus of Produire Au Sud, Dharamsala and La Fabrique, Cannes. Apart from making films, he writes, paints and sculpts, pushing the boundaries of form and often landing in unexplored territories.
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Tan Si En
Tan Si En is a film and TV producer and founder of film and TV company Momo Film Co. An alumnus of Berlinale Talents and Rotterdam Lab, Si En produced Don’t Cry, Butterfly by Dương Diệu Linh, which premiered at the Venice Critics Week 2024, Dreaming & Dying by Nelson Yeo, which won two prestigious Golden Leopards at the Locarno Film Festival 2023, and Wet Season by Anthony Chen, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival 2019, Platform Competition. Wet Season was selected by the Singapore Film Commission as the nation’s Oscars 2021 representative and was lauded critically, receiving 12 awards internationally including at the distinguished Golden Horse Awards. Among their latest co-productions, The Year of the Everlasting Storm premiered in Cannes Film Festival 2021, Arnold Is a Model Student by Sorayos Prapapan premiered in Locarno Film Festival 2022, and Andragogy by Wregas Bhanuteja premiered in Toronto 2023. Si En was the assistant producer of POP AYE by Kirsten Tan, which won the Special Jury Prize at Sundance Film Festival 2017 and the VPRO Big Screen Award at International Film Festival Rotterdam. They are developing and producing prominent award-winning projects such as This City Is a Battlefield by Mouly Surya and Some Nights I Feel Like Walking by Petersen Vargas, among others.
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