Selection Committee
Lorna Tee
Lorna Tee is a film producer, programmer, trainer and curator, dividing her time between Asia and Europe. She has worked with Focus Films (Hong Kong), Variety (USA), Irresistible Films (Hong Kong/ Japan), and also film festivals such as Berlinale, CinemAsia Film Festival and others. She produced the first pan-asian film awards, the Asian Film Awards in 2007. She was the co-founder and Head of Festival Management for the International Film Festival & Awards Macao until 2020.
Selected filmography includes The Beautiful Washing Machine, Rain Dogs, Crazy Stone, My Mother is a Bellydancer, The Shoe Fairy, At the End of Daybreak, Lover’s Discourse, Come Rain, Come Shine, Postcards from the Zoo, Mrs K and HBO’s Folklore Episode (Toyol). She is producing with her Malaysian production company Paperheart, and with Amsterdam-based company, An Original Picture, primarily focusing on films for an international audience.
She mentors and lectures with film training programmes/ labs (SEAFIC, EAVE, London Film School, DW Film Akademi, Attagirl and more), primarily with emerging filmmakers, including collaborating with various international film institutions and film funds in multiple capacities. She is currently the year-round programming consultant for Cinematheque Passion in Macao and the curator of mylab, an incubation development lab for filmmakers with feature films for international coproductions.
Tee has been invited to be on the jury at the Berlinale, Guanajuato (Mexico), Independent Film & TV Awards (HK), Durban (South Africa), Sydney (Australia), Semaine de la Critique (France), Zurich (Switzerland), BFI London FF (UK), Q Cinema (The Philippines), Jecheon FIlm & Music Festival (South Korea), Sarajevo (Bosnia), Tokyo (Japan), European FIlm Festival Palic (Serbia) and more. She has served on the board for festivals such as Shanghai IFF, Jakarta IFF, Busan IFF, and Cinemart (IFF Rotterdam).
She has been awarded the Filmmaker of the Year award by the Chinese FIlm Association of Malaysia in 2021 and been listed in The Hollywood Reporter Next-Gen Asia in 2010.
Haris Sulong
By having a dual role in Current Pictures, Haris Sulong brings more positivity to most of the major projects produced under Current Pictures. Haris directs tv commercial and acts as an Executive Producer for projects directed by Tunku Mona Riza. With this, the budgets and their usage are controlled and wisely used in all projects.
Haris has more than 30 years of production experienced. During his early career in production, he was involved very closely in a highly rated sitcom named ‘2+1’ and another Pi Mai Pi Mai Tang Tu!
Nurtured in the ranks as Trang Creative’s AV Coordinator and Traffic Controller, Haris become Production Manager at Warna Motion, and later Producer of TVCs and Film Director for a local sitcom at Cinematic with Othman Hafsham. In 1992, he left for Vancouver to pursue his film studies in Vancouver Film School. Then followed a more lucrative freelance career, where he producing numerous TVCs, documentaries, TV programs and a feature film.
Ultimately, a strong desire to become a Film Director urged Haris to take on the role of 1st Assistant Director, then Film Director, winning awards for Petronas Deepavali’s “Duelling Masseurs”, and Rejoice’s “Postman”, amongst others. He also shoots many TVC’s for Indonesia and Vietnam. Today he is a strong partner of CURRENT PICTURES. Notable award-winning commercials under his belt include Out Of The Box (Silver Kancil Awards ’01), Agip Oil (Finalist New York Film Festival ’03), and Frisian Flag Campaign (Pariwara ’04, Indonesia). Haris also produces award winning movies made for TV( Telemovies) and feature for Current Pictures Notable ‘REDHA’ Malaysia’s Oscar and Golden Globe Submission in 2016.
Nandita Solomon
Nandita is the co-founder of Malaysian independent film production company Apparat, which produces bold and game-changing films, that cross-over into international festivals, sales and distribution. Apparat's first fiction feature, 'Bunohan' (2011) was Malaysia's 2nd official submission for the Foreign Language Oscar 2013. Apparat's films have been invited to Toronto, Locarno Piazza Grande, Rotterdam, London BFI, Jogja Netpac Asian Film Festival, Sitges, Singapore IFF, Bucheon, Udine and many others. Apparat's films have been picked up by Universal Pictures, HBO Asia and Netflix, and are screened at community-organized events around Malaysia. Nandita has participated in international programs including Locarno Open Doors Producers Lab, EAVE Ties That Bind and Crossing Borders, and has presented projects at international markets and forums such as Hong Kong's HAF, Focus Asia Genre Market in Udine, Bucheon NAFF IT Project Market, Singapore's SAFF and Docedge Kolkata. Nandita serves as an Industry Advisor to the Malaysia Multimedia University's Faculty of Cinematic Arts since 2019. She taught Sunway University's degree course on producing for film between 2019 and 2020, where she also organized talks and panels during the masterclass week. She has served on the jury of the Jogja Netpac Asian Film Festival (2019) and as a mentor for the Singapore SEA Film Academy 2020. Nandita is preparing for the release of Harum Malam, a horror feature by Dain Said which she also co-wrote, as well as Imaginur, a fantasy drama by Nik Amir Mustapha.