17 MFF JURIES
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LORNA TEE
Lorna Tee is a pan-Asian film producer and festival curator/ organizer, dividing her time between Asia and Europe. She has worked for Focus Films (Hong Kong), Variety (USA), Irresistible Films (Hong Kong/ Japan), and Berlinale, CinemAsia Film Festival & was the founder/ Head of Festival Management for the International Film Festival & Awards Macao.
Selected filmography includes The Beautiful Washing Machine, Rain Dogs, Crazy Stone, Love Story, My Mother is a Bellydancer, The Shoe Fairy, At the End of Daybreak, Lover’s Discourse, Come Rain, Come Shine, Postcards from the Zoo and Mrs K. She is developing film projects in Asia with her production company Paperheart, mentors/ lectures with global film training programmes/ labs and consulting for various international film institutions and film funds.
She is also currently curating the year round film screenings programme at the Cinematheque Passion in Macao.
LULA RATNA
Lulu Ratna was born in Jakarta. Graduated from Anthropology, University of Indonesia (1997) and The Graduate School of Institut Kesenian Jakarta (2020). Worked and served as jury member in several film festivals inside and outside Indonesia. Now she’s working in Boemboe Organisation (boemboe.org) and teaching in Film Major, Universitas Multimedia Nusantara.
BERNARD CHAULY
Bernard Chauly is an iconic Malaysian film director. Originally from Ipoh, he has taken his audiences from Malaysia to Istanbul, Cappadocia, Greece and Iran. Bernard was once co-mentor of the SGIFF Southeast Asian Film Lab and continues to hone new cinematic voices. He is now also a professionally trained chef.
KONG PAHURAK
Kong Pahurak (b.1981) is a Thai filmmaker who started off as a photographer for a publishing house back in the early 2000s while writing his master thesis about Ingmar Bergman, a famous Swedish film director. In 2007, Kong got a scholarship from the Japanese government and pursued studying filmmaking in Japan. Since coming back to Thailand in 2013, Kong has been working in many roles of film production. As a director, His debut feature-length film, In the Flesh, was premiered at Bangkok Asean Film Festival in 2017. And more recently in 2020, he directed a series of short films about human rights for Amnesty International Thailand.
As a director of photography, he has shot many Asian short and feature films. Notably, Second Life of Thieves (dir. Woo Ming Jin, 2014), Prelude to the General (dir. Pimpaka Towira, 2016), Someone from Nowhere (dir. Prabda Yoon, 2017), Blind Turtle and the Driftwood (dir. Yoichiro Takahashi, 2020), and Malu (dir. Edmund Yeo, 2020).
Outside filmmaking, Kong is also translating English literature to Thai. Some of his works include The Last Don (by Mario Puzo), The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (by Robert Louis Stevenson), and The Island of Doctor Moreau (by H. G. Wells). As of 2021, he is busily translating a book by Philip K. Dick.
MAIKE MIA HÖHNE
Maike Mia Höhne is a German film director, film curator and professor of film at UE Europe. She is a mother of two children and lives and works in Hamburg.
From 1994 to 1999 she studied visual communication, specialising in film at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts and in Havana, Cuba.
Since 2001 she has worked as a freelance author, lecturer, curator, producer, photographer and director. For ARTE she produces the magazine KURZSCHLUSS with Lilli Thalgott. Her films are distributed by Arsenal - Institut für Film und Videokunst and Kurzfilmagentur Hamburg. From 2007 to 2019 she was the curator and head of the short film section Berlinale Shorts at the Berlinale. She has worked as a programmer, moderator and juror for international festivals, film funding bodies and institutes for more than 20 years. In 2019 she took over the artistic direction at the Short Film Festival Hamburg. She is a member of the Freie Akademie der Künste in Hamburg.
*Photo Courtesy of CLAUDIA HÖHNE