AFFF 2007 Jury Members

Nagesh Kukunoor

Nagesh gave up his lucrative career as an environmental consultant in Atlanta and using his personal savings wrote, produced, acted and directed his immensely successful debut film, 'Hyderabad Blues'. The film has been to several international festivals winning audience awards at the Peachtree International Film Festival in Atlanta and the Rhode Island Film Festival.

'Rockford', 'Bollywood Calling', '3 Deewarein', 'Hyderabad Blues 2', 'Rearranged Marriage'are some of his path breaking films. 'Iqbal' was a box office success and won many awards. Nagesh's latest film 'Dor' received rave reviews and was a runaway box office winner.

Popular Hong Kong actress Josie Ho has acted in over 25 film in Hong Kong and Japan in lead and supporting roles. Her recent films include 'The Drummer' which featured in the Toronto Film Festival and the 26th Hong Kong Film Awards 2007 and 'Isabella' which was screened at the Berlin Film Festival.

The highly acclaimed film 'Butterfly', directed by Yan- Yan Mak was screened at the Pusan International Film Festival, San Paulo International Film Festival and the Stockholm International Film Festival. Josie was best actress nominee for the film 'Butterfly' at the 2005 Hong Kong Film critics Golden Bauhinia Awards, best supporting actress winner for the film 'Naked Ambition' at Hong Kong Film Awards and Best supporting actress nominee for the film 'Twin Effects.'

Josie Ho

Auraeus Solito	Auraeus's first fiction feature film 'The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros' won 15 international awards including three at the Berlinale (The Teddy award, International Jury Prize at the Kinderfest and Special Mention from the Children's Jury of the Kinderfest). It is also the first Philippine film nominated for Best Foreign film at the Independents' Spirit Awards in the US. It has been shown in more than 50 film festivals around the world. 'Tuli', his second feature film, won Best Picture and Best Director at the Digital Competition at the 2005 CineManila Film Festival and recently won the NETPAC Jury Prize at the the Berlinale, International Forum for New Cinema. It is at present making the rounds in film festivals in North America, Europe, Latin America and Asia. 'Pisay' his third dramatic feature film won three awards at the CineMalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival including Best Director and is selected for the upcoming Toronto International Film Festival. It has been recently screened in Toronto and Pusan and will be In Competition at the Vesoul Film Festival in France. He graduated with a Theater Arts degree at the University of the Philippines and belongs to the indigenous Palawan tribe of the South Palawan islands.

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Chairman and CEO of Hyde Park Entertainment, Amritraj has during the span of his 25 year career, produced over 90 films with a worldwide gross in excess of USD 1 billion. He has worked with every major Studio in Hollywood and with stars including Bruce Willis, Sylvester Stallone, Angelina Jolie, Cate Blanchett, Dustin Hoffman, Steve Martin and Antonio Banderas. He also served on the Foreign Film Board of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts.

Ashok Amritraj