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Donald RICHIE
(USA / film critic, filmmaker ) *chairperson of the jury
Acknowledged as the most foremost authority on Japanese cinema. Has published some forty books, including The Inland Sea which has been called a classic and its film version has won prizes at international film festivals. Has written for numerous magazines, such as Newsweek, The Nation, Variety, The New York Times, The Gurdian, Harper's, and Atlantic Monthly. Has designed many festival retrospectives, including the first retrospective of the Japanese director OZU Yasujiro at the 1962 Berlin International Film Festival. Has lived in Japan for most of his life. |
 HANEDA Sumiko
(Japan / film director)
One of Japan's pioneer documentary film directors. Made directorial debut in 1957 with "Mura no Fujin-Gakkyu"(Ladies' Class in a Village). Has worked on over 80 documentary films, including "Ode to Mt. Hayachine"(82), "Akiko - a Portrait of a Dancer"(85), "How to Care for the Senile"(86), and "The Life of Raicho"(01). "Into the Picture Scroll - The Tale of Yamanaka Tokiwa"(04) is her latest film. |
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MOON So-ri
(Korea / actress)
Made screen debut with Lee Chang-dong's "Peppermint Candy"(00), followed by the superb performance in "Oasis"(02 / dir: Lee Chang-dong), which brought her the "Marcello Mastroianni" acting prize at the Venice International Film Festival in 2002. Her latest film is Im Chan-sang's "The President's Barber"(04), which will be screened in the competition at the Tokyo International Film Festival this year. |
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James QUANDT
(Canada / film curator, researcher)
Senior Programmer at Cinematheque Ontario, Toronto, one of the leading film institutions in North America. Has published widely on cinema as critic and scholar, including articles on Theo ANGELOPOULOS, Andrei TARKOVSKY, Guy MADDIN, Richard MASSINGHAM, Abbas KIAROSTAMI, TSAI Ming-liang, and Jose Cesar MONTEIRO in such magazines and journals as Artforum, Cinema Scope and Montage. Winner of the Japan Foundation Special Prize for Arts and Culture in 2004. |
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Simon FIELD
(UK / film curator, producer)
Was a director of the International Film Festival Rotterdam from 1996 until 2004. Is now a director of the film production company "Illuminations", one of whose major projects is executive producing the series of film commissions for Peter Sellars' Mozart anniversary project to be presented in Vienna in 2006. |
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