2025 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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With nearly 30 years of experience working with one of the first private leading content companies in Vietnam specialising in film, cinema, TV, OTT, entertainment events and social media, Ngo Thi Bich Hanh has been contributing heavily to promoting Vietnamese culture to the world and introducing world culture into Vietnam. Her work has included introducing the first Korean drama series from KBS to national broadcaster VTV in 1997, bringing MTV to Vietnamese audiences since 1998, and drawing many top-rated TV programs and movies into Vietnam from leading international companies including Fremantle, Warner Brothers, Columbia TriStar, UIP, 20th Century Fox, Disney, MBC, KBS, SBS, CJ ENM, ShowBox and more.
Hanh has also devoted her time to introducing Vietnamese creative content to international film festivals in Cannes, Berlin, Venice, Busan, Tokyo and Toronto. She has acted as an advisor for the Asia Film Awards in Hong Kong from 2010 to 2012, Ambassador for the first Asia Creative Academy Awards since 2018, Vice President of the Vietnam Film Development Association, and Director of Tạo Fest, the first international influencers and creators festival in Vietnam.
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Schuyler Weiss is an Academy Award–nominated producer based in the Gold Coast, Australia. He has worked with Baz Luhrmann’s production company, Bazmark, since 2005 and currently serves as Managing Director and producing partner to Luhrmann and his creative partner Catherine Martin.
In addition to producing Luhrmann’s latest epic feature Elvis, which garnered eight Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Weiss also executive produced the long-anticipated re-mounting of Luhrmann’s Australia as a limited series for Hulu and Disney+ titled Faraway Downs. Weiss will complete the Elvis journey with the upcoming release of EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert, the documentary Weiss produced with Luhrmann from restored and unseen footage from Elvis’s iconic 1970s concerts.
Outside his work at Bazmark, Weiss recently produced the widely acclaimed 2024 feature film How To Make Gravy, based on Paul Kelly’s iconic song. In the US, Weiss co-founded in 2010 the New York–based Tandem Pictures, which he built into a successful film and commercial production company and sold in 2016. He has produced numerous independent films, including three features selected for the Sundance Film Festival. Weiss’s work in entertainment spans film, TV, commercials, live events, VR and even co-writing a song with Elton John.
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