Selection Committee (Selected Projects)
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 working with Barunson E&A (South Korea) on International Acquisition and Coproductions and serves as 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.
Raymond Phathanavirangoon
Raymond Phathanavirangoon is a Hong Kong-born, Bangkok-based film producer who previously served as co-founder and Executive Director of Southeast Asia Fiction Film Lab (SEAFIC), which helped develop titles such as Oscar Best International Film submissions AJOOMMA (Singapore), AUTOBIOGRAPHY (Indonesia), and PLAN 75 (Japan), among others. He was international programmer for Toronto International Film Festival and Toronto Reel Asian Film Festival as well as Programme Consultant for Hong Kong International Film Festival and Cannes Critics' Week. Prior to that, he was Director of Marketing & Special Projects (Acquisitions) for sales agent Fortissimo Films. He acted as Reading Committee Member for Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF) and was advisory member of Asian Film Awards (AFA). Producing credits include Ron Howard's THIRTEEN LIVES (2022), Pen-ek Ratanaruang's SAMUI SONG (Venice Days 2017) and HEADSHOT (Berlin Panorama 2012), Boo Junfeng's APPRENTICE (Cannes Un Certain Regard 2016), Pang Ho-Cheung's ABERDEEN (2014) and DREAM HOME (2010) and more. He was awarded Asian Film Commission Producer of the Year in 2017 and Future Leaders: Producers, Screen International in 2013.
Fong Lae Fhan
She was the Business Matching Manager and Project Coordinator of Hong Kong - Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF) from 2014 to 2023 edition. Initially she began working in TV station, and then further study at National Taiwan University of Arts, Department of Motion Picture (Master of Fine Arts) in 2008. Projects involved: Star Idol Malaysia (2007, TV Reality Show), Jing-Shan (2009, Short Film), A Reunion Night (2011, Short Film), The Brighter Day (2012, Short Film), Skate Off (2020, Short Film). In 2022, she started to work as the Programme Coordinator of Malaysian Development Lab for Fiction Feature Films (mylab). Currently, she is the Programme Manager of mylab+@Jogja.