Profiles of the Asia-Pacific Film Festival team of judges
Profiles of the Asia-Pacific Film Festival team of judges
JAKARTA (JP): The 40th Asia-Pacific Film Festival (APFF) will
start tomorrow. Delegations from the 14 participating Asia-
Pacific countries, including Australia, Hong Kong, India, Japan,
Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Kuwait, Singapore,
Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam are scheduled to arrive today.
Meanwhile, a seven-member jury started evaluating the films --
some 30 features and ten documentary films -- on July 11. The
jury members' profiles, consisting of three Indonesian, one
Malaysian, one Japanese, one Taiwanese and one Australian, are
briefly sketched here:
Indonesia:
Boediardjo, head and member of the board of the jury:
An Indonesian Air Force Marshall (ret.) born in Borobudur,
Central Java on Nov. 16, 1921. His close relation to the film
world started when he was Minister of Information between 1968
and 1973.
Between 1965 and 1968 Boediardjo served as Indonesia's
Ambassador to Cambodia. After retiring from his position as
Minister of Information, he was appointed Indonesia's Ambassador
to Spain (1976-1979).
The receiver of the Guerrilla Star medal, Garuda Star, Duty
Star and many more, spends his retirement days as a member of
trustee boards at several universities, helps at social
organizations and has taken up photography. Boediardjo has also
received medals from the Yugoslavia, Egypt, Cambodia, Malaysia,
the Netherlands and Spain.
Christine Hakim
Christine Hakim is presently Indonesia's most prominent
actress. Born in Kuala Tungkal on Dec. 25, 1956, she has received
several Citra prizes -- the highest award in the Indonesian film
industry.
Her first movie Cinta Pertama directed by one of Indonesian
leading directors, Teguh Karya, earned her the Best Actress award
at the Indonesia's Film Festival in 1974. She also grabbed prizes
for Sesuatu yang Indah, directed by Wim Umboh in 1977, Pengemis
dan Tukang Becak, also by Wim Umboh in 1979, Di Balik Kelambu by
Teguh Karya in 1983, Kerikil-Kerikil Tajam by Syumandjaya in
1985, and Tjoet Nya' Dhien, by Eros Djarot in 1988. Christine
also received award from the Korean Motion Picture for her
performance in Kawin Lari.
Christine has been a jury member at several international
festivals, including the TV Feature at Shanghai Film Festival in
1985 in China, the International Movie Festival in 1990 in Tokyo,
the International Film Festival in 1990 in Hawaii, the
International Film Festival in 1994 in Singapore and the 39th
Asian Pacific Film Festival in 1994 in Sydney.
Ami Priyono
His full name is Lembu Amiluhur Priyono and was born on Oct.
23, 1959. After leaving the Department of Archeology at the
University of Indonesia (1956-1957), Ami departed to Russia to
attend the Nation's Institute of Film in Moscow, Art Department
(1957-1959).
One year after returning from Moscow, Ami became involved in
movies first as an artistic arranger (1968-1974) and then
occasionally acting and directing.
Ami won Best Artistic Programmer for the film Ambisi in the
1974 IFF, Best Director for Jakarta-Jakarta in the 1978 IFF and,
for the same movie, the Film Award with the Contemporary theme at
the APFF in Sydney.
Ami has sat on the jury at the APFF in Kuala Lumpur (1991),
the Indonesian Television Film Festival (1994) and the Film
Festival for Non-Block Countries in Pyongyang (1994).
Malaysia:
Pancacharam Nalliah
Producer, director, screen writer, and also movie actor, he
was born on March 14, 1949 in Johor Baru, Johor, Malaysia.
Panshah is an experienced movie man in Malaysia, having made no
less than 13 movies including, Jejaka Perasan where he acted as
both producer and screen writer, Sayang (Producer, Director, and
Screen Writer), Kanta Serigala (winner of the "Best Sound Effect"
FFAP 1992), Perempuan, Isteri dan Jalang (Best Movie in Malaysian
Film Festival in 1994).
Panshah has also produced movies for television.
Taiwan:
Lee You-ning
This member of the jury from Taipei was born on Jan. 10, 1950.
He received his bachelor degree in Media Education from Tamkang
University, Taiwan, and his masters from the USA Film Production
Department of Columbia University in California.
Lee once worked as a correspondent for China Times in
Hollywood (1978-1982). He has directed seven films and ten
documentaries (1982-1992). Besides working as a director, he also
is a lecturer at Tamkang University in Taiwan, director for the
Drama and Film Association of Taiwan, head of the Taiwan Film
Producer Association and the Director of the Taipei Golden Horse
International Film Festival.
Australia:
Jane Freebury
Jane is a film observer, journalist and educator. She received
her bachelor degree from the University of Sydney in 1973 and her
masters in 1986 from the film department of the University of
Westminster in London.
She writes articles about films for The Jakarta Post (1994),
where she was once a part-time journalist (1987-1992), and for
Australian Society, an Australian-based film weekly.
Jane taught English at the Adult Migrant Education Service in
New South Wales, Australia (1986-1990) and taught English at
Davie's College in Brighton, England (1979-1985)
In addition, she once served as a sub-editor at Angus &
Robertson Publishers in Brighton, London (1979), worked at the
publication department of New South Wales Institute of Technology
in 1975. She was a sub-editor of the Australian Encyclopedia,
published by Grollier, Sydney (1973).
Japan:
Tomio Kuriyama
Tomio Kuriyama was born in Ibaraki, near Tokyo on Feb. 20,
1941. After completing his studies at the International Christian
University (1965) in Japan, he worked in Shochiku Ofuna Studios
as an assistant producer. He developed his movie making skills
during his 18 years at the studio. He once assisted Yoji Yamada,
the maker of the famous Tora San series, from whom he learned a
lot about the basics of making movies.
Kuriyama's first film was Itoshino Lahaina which was based on
a script by Yoji Yamada (1983). he made Shukuji in 1985 and it
earned him the Newcomer Award from the Ministry of Education for
what was called his "impressive development of artistry". His
other works include Itoshi no Chiipappa (1987), and the series of
Tsuribaka Nisshi, the seventh episode of which was completed in
1994. (als)