Australia

James Nolen

Youth Feature Film

Film Programmer for ACMI.

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Australia

Derek Weeks

Youth Feature Film

Co-Chair of Australian Teachers of Media, former Education Officer for Screen Queensland and youth programmer for Brisbane International Film Festival.

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Australia

Maxine Williamson

Youth Feature Film

Film Director, APSA and BAPFF.

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Australia

Peter Moyes

Animated Feature Film

Program Director Animation Department, Griffith Film School, Griffith University, former Director of the Brisbane International Animation Festival, award-winning animator.

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Australia

Andi Spark

Animated Feature Film

Associate Professor Dr Andi Spark led the Animation program at Griffith University’s Film School for over ten years, after a twenty year career in the industry (including Walt Disney Television Animation and Disneytoon, Viskatoons, Mediaworld, and the Australian Children’s’ Television Foundation) as an animation artist then director and producer for short films, music videos, children’s’ television series, TVC’s and independent features. She has since been supervising producer for more than 200 student films, which have screened and won awards in major festivals around the world including Cannes and Annecy. She has been instrumental in fostering the professional careers of over 500 creative artists across Australia and internationally through stints as Artist in Residence and Adjunct Professorships, along with mentoring dozens of postgraduate masters and doctoral candidates. Other recent works include producing a 40-minute 5-part animated educational series (2013), animated production ‘sets’ for Opera Queensland’s 2014 “La Boheme” production, a solo international exhibition focused on using humour to foster understanding of serious womens’ health issues and investigating contemporary approaches to sequential narrative delivered via mobile platform devices (Philadelphia, USA 2014), and site-specific projection animation on and through buildings (Zagreb, Croatia 2014, USA 2013 & 2015, Brisbane 2016) Andi has recently returned to industry, working with the producing team at Emmy-award winning Ludo Studio, managing a 52 episode children’s series (“Bluey”) for Studio Joho. Along with this, she continues to develop creative animation-based projects working variously as artist, director and producer.

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Australia

Deborah Szapiro

Animated Feature Film

Founder and former Festival Director of Japanime Film Festival, Co-Director of Sydney International Animation Festival, Animation Lecturer at University of Technology Sydney.

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Singapore

Philip Cheah

Documentary Feature Film

Vice-President, NETPAC and former Director of Singapore International Film Festival.

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Hong Kong

Kiki Fung

Documentary Feature Film

Head Programmer BAPFF and Competition Advisor for APSA.

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Australia

Faramarz K-Rahber

Documentary Feature Film

Award-winning documentary filmmaker and film academic.

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Australia

Adrienne McKibbins

Official Submitting Member Organisations

Film critic, historian, and former Director of Singapore International Film Festival.

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