Selection Committee 2006

Selection Committee 2006

Alex Law
Alex has an M. F. A. in Film Production from New York University Graduate Film School and was Awarded Best Cinematographer for Blue Christmas in the 1984 New York University Film Festival. Traces Of A Dragon - a documentary on the saga of Jackie Chan and his family was the opening film for the Berlin Film Festival Panorama Documentary Series, 2003. His film Beijing Rocks - a film about the new generation and the rock & roll scene in Beijing was nominated for five Hong Kong Film Awards (2002), including Best Picture.

Daw Ming Lee
Born in Hsinchu City in northern Taiwan Daw-Ming Lee is a filmmaker, and a film scholar. He is a full-time Associate Professor teaching at Graduate Institute of Art and Technology, Taipei National University of the Arts. He taught at many colleges and universities in Taiwan such as Chinese Culture University, National Tsing Hua University, Tainan National College of Art, National Taiwan University of Art. Daw-Ming Lee is the recipient of several awards and grants, including the Media Arts Grant from the National Culture and Arts Foundation and the Bureau of Culture of Taipei City Government. His film and video works have been shown widely in Taiwan, and in the United States, France, Japan, Hong Kong and Singapore.

Kunal Kohli
The hit film director Kunal Kohli was responsible for the casting coup of the decade with Aamir Khan and Kajol in his block buster film Fanaa. A film critic before he made his directorial debut, Kunal hosted the show "Chalo Cinema" on Zee TV for years before making his directorial debut with a TV series titled Trikon. He eventually became part of Yashraj Films directing his first film under the Yashraj banner 'Mujhse Dosti Karoge!' (2002) starring Hrithik Roshan, Rani Mukerji and Kareena Kapoor.

Raymond Lee
Raymond Lee has co-written some of the biggest blockbusters in Philippine cinema, including Anak (Child), Tanging Yaman (The Only Treasure), and Milan. He produced and co-wrote (with Michiko Yamamoto) the 1st AFFF Best Film Winner, "The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros", which also won top prizes in Berlin, Rotterdam, Canary Islands (Spain), Turin, and Montreal. The first homegrown Filipino film to be shown in Sundance and honored as Opening Film at New Directors/New Films in New York, it is the Philippines' official entry to the 2007 Oscars for Best Foreign Language Film.

Sirkka Moeller
Sirkka Moeller has been working for film festivals around Europe since 1988. During her studies of Anthropology and Languages at Cologne University and the University of Iceland she worked for the Potsdam European Film Festival and the Nordic Panorama festivals in Reykjavik, Iceland, and Bergen, Norway. From 1997 until 2001 she was a member of the Programme Committee at the International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film. In 1998 and 1999 she was a jury member for a production grant for new documentaries that focus on aspects of working life, organised by the German Hans-Böckler-Stiftung.