Selection Committee (Special Intake Participants)
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.
Ifa Isfansyah
IFA ISFANSYAH graduated from the Television Department of Indonesian Institute of Art Jogjakarta. He began his career in cinema as Producer and Director of several short films, including BE QUIET, EXAM IS IN PROGRESS! (Tokyo ShortShort, Competition, 2006) and HALF TEASPOON (Grand Prize Hong Kong Independent Film Video Award & competition, IFFR 2008). In 2001, he started his company Fourcolours Films with other local filmmakers in order to produce and support Indonesian filmmakers. He was selected by the Asian Film Academy BUSAN in 2006 and got a scholarship to attend the Im Kwon Taek College of Film & Performing Arts, KOREA. Then back to Indonesia, he directed his first feature film, GARUDA DI DADAKU (2009), which encountered a great commercial success. His second film, THE DANCER (2011) was awarded Best Director and Best Picture at the Indonesian Film Festival. His directing work include martial art film GOLDEN CANE WARROR (2014) and his latest film LOSMEN BU BROTO adapted from legendary TV Series in 1980 era. Since then he has produced SITI (Eddie CAHYONO, Telluride 2015), TURAH (Wicaksono Wisnu LEGOWO, Indonesian Official Entry for OSCAR 2018), THE SEEN AND UNSEEN (Kamila ANDINI, Toronto 2017), MEMORIES OF MY BODY (Garin NUGROHO, Venice Orizzonti 2018), YUNI (Kamila ANDINI, Toronto 2021) and BEFORE, NOW & THEN (Kamila ANDINI, Berlinale Competition 2022. ISFANSYAH is also a founder of Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival that started in 2006 and a founder of the JOGJA FILM ACADEMY, which was established in 2014. Currently he is work for Netflix series CIGARETTE GIRL.
Meiske Taurisia
She entered the film industry in 2004, started as a wardrobe stylist and later as producer. Since then, she has been producing (short & feature) films that travel and relevant to the International audience. Postcards from the Zoo (2012, Berlinale), Rocket Rain (2014, Karlovy Vary), The Fox Exploits the Tiger's Might (2015, Critic's Week), and more.
In 2016 she co-founded Palari Films and produced Posesif (2017, SGIFF), Aruna & Her Palate (2018, Culinary Cinema, Berlinale). Both films won several awards at Festival Film Indonesia. In 2021, Palari Films released Ali & Ratu Ratu Queens, a Netflix Original. In the same year, world premiered Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash at Locarno and won the Golden Leopard and numerous other accolades.
Aside from producing films, since 2012 she is actively involved in supporting independent films with initiatives such as Kolektif (distribution), Kinosaurus (micro cinema), and LOCK (film lab). Meiske Taurisia studied Architecture and Art & Design for Bachelor; Fashion Strategy and Public Policy for her Master.