People
The Asian Film Archive is a grassroots effort by the Asian film community,
driven by industry professionals, filmmakers, scholars, critics and festival
organizers. We are building a home for Asian films and a haven for independent
film makers, to share, inspire and create.
Board of Directors
Dr Kenneth Paul Tan (Chair)
Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore
Jacqueline Tan
School of Film & Media Studies, Ngee Ann Polytechnic
Dr Kenneth Chan
School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University
Mike Wiluan
Infinite Frameworks
Ong Sor Fern
Straits Times, Singapore Press Holdings
International Advisory Board
Dr Kenneth Chan (PhD, Florida) (Chair)
School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University
Prof Chris Berry (PhD, UCLA)
Professor of Film and Television Studies, Goldsmiths College, University of
London
Prof Howard Besser (Phd, UC Berkeley)
Professor of Cinema Studies and Director of New York University's Moving Image
Archiving & Preservation Program, Professor Emeritas, UCLA
Prof Rey Chow (PhD, Stanford)
Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities, Brown University
Prof Chua Beng Huat (Phd, York)
Professor, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore
Prof Chua Tat Seng (PhD, Leeds)
Professor, School of Computing, National University of Singapore
Mr. Ray Edmonson
Founding Chair of
Southeast Asia Pacific Audio Visual Archive Association (SEAPAVAA)
and Honorary Curator Emeritus of National Film and Sound Archive
Mr. Hou Hsiao Hsien
Internationally Acclaimed Asian Filmmaker
Dr Lim Song Hwee (PhD, Cambridge)
Department of Film Studies, University of Exeter and
Chief Editor, Journal of Chinese Cinemas
Prof Trinh T. Minh-ha (PhD, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Professor of Women's Studies and Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley
Dr Kenneth Paul Tan (PhD, Cambridge)
Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore
Prof Jan Uhde (PhD, University of Waterloo)
Professor of Film Studies, University of Waterloo
Dr Aruna Vasudev (PhD, University of Paris)
President of NETPAC (Network for Promotion of Asian Cinema) and Founding Editor of
Cinemaya, Asian Film Quarterly
Executive Team
Tan Bee Thiam
Executive Director
Karen Chan
Archivist
Pauline Soh
Archiving Officer
Premila Elangovan
Archiving Officer
Ethan Yeo
Administrative Officer
Jean Hair
Outreach and Volunteer Officer
Anuradha Kanwar
Project Officer
Daniel Koh
Intern
Consultant Team
Trina Ha
Corporate Secretary
Samuel Seow Law Corporation
Legal Consultant
Karen Chai
Accountant
Pan Lexin
Leader and Consultant, Database and Programming Initiative