Zoë C.J.Chen

Taiwan/Golden Horse Award Programme Director

Chen obtained a master's degree at the University of Edinburgh for her research on European films. After returning to Taiwan, she worked for domestic film distributors and has been involved in the representative film event in Taiwan, Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival, since 2001. Currently, she is the programme director of the festival. She also works as a film producer. Her produced features include director Hou Chi-jan's "One Day" (2010), which was an official selection of the Berlin International Film Festival.

Tsang Tsui-Shan

Hong Kong/Director

Graduated from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, majoring in Sound Design, and later earned a Master of Fine Arts in the Media Design and Technology Programme from City University of Hong Kong in 2005. After making award-winning short films such as "Lonely Planet" and "Où est la sortie?," Jessey Tsang Tsui-Shan made her first feature "Lovers on the Road" (2008). Her works, screened widely in Italy, Germany, Poland, the UK etc., consistently fuse fictional structures with true stories. She won the Best New Director of the 2012 Hong Kong Film Awards with "Big Blue Lake" (2011/Screened at OAFF2012). Her latest short is "Summer Rain" (2012).

Yoichiro Takahashi

Japan/Director

Born in 1963 in Tokyo. He has directed "Fishes in August" (1997, Best New Director Award of San Sebastian Film Festival, Grand Prize of Thessaloniki Film Festival), "Sunday's Dream" (1999, Cannes Film Festival Un Certain Regard official selection, FIPRESCI Prize of Chicago International Film Festival) as well as "Yoko" (1992), "Boryoku kyoshi" (1996), "Vitamin F" (2002), "Shojo ni ha mukanai shokugyo" (2006) and others.