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.

Kenneth Paul Tan (Chair)

Glen Goei

Jacqueline Tan

Ong Sor Fern

Susan Beard


Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Filmmaker

Aruna Vasudev (PhD, University of Paris)
President of NETPAC (Network for Promotion of Asian Cinema)

Chris Berry (PhD, UCLA)
Professor of Film and Television Studies, Goldsmiths College, University of London

Chua Beng Huat (PhD, York)
Professor of Sociology, National University of Singapore

Chua Tat Seng (PhD, Leeds)
Professor, School of Computing, National University of Singapore

David Bordwell (PhD, Iowa)
Jacques Ledoux Professor of Film Studies, University of Wisconsin–Madison

Hou Hsiao Hsien
Filmmaker

Howard Besser (Phd, UC Berkeley)
Director of New York University's Moving Image Archiving & Preservation Program

Jan Uhde (PhD, University of Waterloo)
Professor of Film Studies, University of Waterloo

Kenneth Chan (PhD, Florida)
School of English Language and Literature, University of Northern Colorado

Kenneth Paul Tan (PhD, Cambridge)
Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore

Lim Song Hwee (PhD, Cambridge)
Department of Film Studies, University of Exeter and Chief Editor, Journal of Chinese Cinemas

Ray Edmondson
Founding Chair of Southeast Asia Pacific Audio Visual Archive Association (SEAPAVAA) and Honorary Curator Emeritus of National Film and Sound Archive

Rey Chow (PhD, Stanford)
Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities, Brown University

Trinh T. Minh-ha (PhD, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Professor of Women's Studies and Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley

Karen Chan 
Acting Director

Chew Tee Pao
Archive Officer

Juliana Montgomery
Intern

Trina Ha
Corporate Secretary

Samuel Seow Law Corporation
Legal Consultant

Karen Chai
Accountant

Pan Lexin
Consultant, Database and Programming