Jury Members at 9th Osian's Cinefan Film Festival 2007

ASIAN & ARAB COMPETITION
Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Thailand)
Independent film director, screenwriter and film producer and a leading, voice in Thai cinema.
Francois da Silva (France)
Artistic Advisor for Europacorp, the biggest independent production company in Europe and former Artistic Director of the Directors’ Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival
Hala Khalil
Leading film-maker from Egypt, whose film The Best Times opened the Arabesque Section at Osian’s Cinefan two years ago.
Saeed Mirza (India)
An award-winning filmmaker and one of the pioneers of the New Wave cinema in India.
Wu Tianming (China)
One of the members of China's Fourth Generation filmmakers and currently President, Xi’an Qujiang Film & TV Investment Group Co. Ltd.

FIRST FEATURES COMPETITION
Amir Muhammad (Malaysia)
Independent and renowned filmmaker and writer. He made Malaysia’s first digital film.
Anurag Kashyap (India)
Writer, director, actor and cinema personality in India.
Min Byung-lock (Korea)
Director of the Jeonju International Film Festival.
FIPRESCI
Chris Fujiwara (USA)
Well-known American critic and author, editor of Undercurrent.
Klaus Eder (Germany)
Author, critic, General Secretary of the International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI), and Artistic Director of the Munich International Film Festival.
H N Narahari Rao (India)
Critic, Secretary of FIPRESCI - India, noted film society activist and Vice President of the Indian Federation of Film Societies, South Region.

INDIAN COMPETITION
Bianca Taal
Manager of the Hubert Bals Fund, Adviser of the Dutch Film Fund and Co-Manager of CineMart of the Rotterdam International Film Festival.
Marziyeh Meshkiny (Iran)
Renowned Iranian director, cinematographer and writer.
Nick Deocampo (Philippines)
Filmmaker, historian, author and film critic, and Director of the Mowelfund Film Institute in the Philippines.
Peggy Chiao Hsiung-Ping (Taiwan)
Author, scriptwriter, editor, producer, scholar, professor, administrator and recipient of 2006 Osian’s-Cinefan Lifetime Achievement Award given to an Author / Critic / Scriptwriter for Distinguished Contribution to Cinema.
Rupa Ganguly (India)
Prominent actresses of Bengali cinema.

NETPAC
Asoka Handagama (Sri Lanka)
Well-known and award-winning filmmaker from Sri Lanka.
Kenji Ishizaka
Director of the ‘Asian Winds’ section of the Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF), Director of the ‘Asian Cinema Series’ and the ‘Arab Film Festival(s) in Tokyo’ at the Japan Foundation.
Tiina Lokk (Estonia)
Founder-director of the Black Nights Film Festival in Tallinn, Estonia, Co-founder of the distribution company, Filmimax, member of the European Film Academy and of the Executive Board of the European Coordination of Film Festivals.

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