OSAKA ASIAN FILM FESTIVAL 2023

Competition Jury Members

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HO Cheuk Tin (何爵天)

HO Cheuk Tin (何爵天)

Hong Kong|Director

HO graduated with a major in Directing from the School of Television and Film at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. He made his directorial debut with the critically acclaimed courtroom drama "The Sparring Partner" (正義迴廊/2022). The film has taken Hong Kong by storm, becoming the highest-grossing Category III rated film to date and receiving 16 nominations for the Hong Kong Film Awards 2023 including Best Film, Best Director, Best New Director, and more. His latest film "Over My Dead Body" (死屍死時四十四/2023) will be screened at OAFF2023 as the Special Opening Film.

HSIEH Pei-ju

HSIEH Pei-ju (謝沛如)

Taiwan|Director

HSIEH is a Taiwanese filmmaker with an MFA in Film Directing from Columbia University. Her feature debut, "Heavy Craving" (大餓/2019), was selected for the 24th Busan International Film Festival and won FIPRESCI Prize at the 56th Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival. She directed "More Than Blue: The Series" (比悲傷更悲傷的故事:影集版/2021) and won Best Directing for a Miniseries or Television Film at the 57th Golden Bell Awards. "Heavy Craving" and her short film "A Cockerel's Tale" (雄雞卡克/2019) were both screened at OAFF2020.

TSUKINAGA Rie (月永理絵)

TSUKINAGA Rie (月永理絵)

Japan|Journalist

After working for a publishing company, TSUKINAGA began her career as a freelance writer in 2014. She writes reviews, columns, and interviews for newspapers, magazines, and web media, including "metropolitana", "Asahi Shimbun", "Shukan Bunshun", and "CINEMORE". She is the editor of "Eiga Yokocho", a film and liquor magazine launched in 2015 (so far published up to the 4th edition), and also edits books and movie pamphlets under the name of Eiga Sakaba. As an MC for the web program "Katsuben Cinema Club", she interviews filmmakers.