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Mentors for Young Critics & Jury Programme
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Dr Chua Beng Huat
Dr
Chua Beng Huat is currently Professor at the Asia Research Institute and the Department
of Sociology, National University of Singapore. He has published Life is Not Complete
without Shopping, edited Consumption in Asia: Lifestyles and Identities,
and co-edited East Asian Pop Culture: Analysing The Korean Wave. He is
founding co-executive editor of the journal, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies.
He has organized several workshops on Korean TV dramas, Chinese cinemas and a year-long
(2006) series of public seminars on ‘Violence in Contemporary Asian Films’ as part
of the Cultural Studies Research Cluster programme of the Asia Research Institute.
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Dr Foo Tee Tuan
Dr. Foo Tee Tuan studied and worked in Taiwan and the United States, for a total
of 12 years. Between 1992 and 1996, while serving as a Lecturer at the Fu Jen Catholic
University (Taiwan) he was also involved in the Taiwanese music and variety television productions industry. In 1996 he joined the School of Communication and Information's
Electronic and Broadcast Media Division, Nanyang Technological University as a Media
Specialist, managing the school's audio/video facilities and staffs. In 1998 he
left the school to pursue his doctorate degree in the Ohio University's School of
Telecommunication. In 2001, he returned to SCI to serve as a Lecturer while working
on his dissertation entitled Managing the Content of Malaysian Television Drama:
Producers, Gatekeepers and the Barisan Nasional Government. He completed
his dissertation and attained his PhD in August 2004. His current research interests
include Chinese cinema, Transnational media production, and Convention and constraint
in Media.
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Dr Edna Lim
Dr Edna Lim is a Lecturer at the Department of English Language and Literature
where she has been teaching since 1996 while completing both her Master of Arts
in English Studies and PhD in Film Studies at NUS. She is also the Undergraduate
Co-Ordinator for the Department'sTheatre Studies Programme, a position she's assumed
since 2003.
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Wayne Lim
Wayne Lim, 42, as a Writer/Film Critic for U Weekly since
2001. Wayne writes,
"I've learnt nothing about movies during my school days, but that never stopped
me from loving, watching movies and writing about things related to movies since the day I started
as a "Film Critic"."
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Stefan Shih
Stefan Shih started writing movie reviews on his blog
A Nutshell Review
in October 2004, and developed a keen interest in Singapore movies. Now he averages
5 movie reviews a week, and is a contributor to online movie sites movieXclusive.com,
Twitchfilm.net, Sinema.sg, and to a print magazine in Hong Kong. He recently served
on the judging panel of The Substation's 4th Singapore Short Film Festival.
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Tan Bee Thiam
Tan Bee Thiam leads and directs the Asian Film Archive as its executive director.
After backpacking in China and India, he founded the Archive as a non-governmental
memory institution with the mission to save, explore and share the art of Asian
Cinema. At the Nanyang Technological University, he lectures on Asian Film History
and is author of a forthcoming book chapter,
An Independent Spirit: Images of Resistance
in Key Contemporary Singapore Films. He is curator-producer of the well-received
Asian Film Archive Collection: Singapore Shorts and Royston's Shorts
DVD anthologies. He was invited to perform jury work for the international film
festivals in Berlin, Locarno and Hawaii.
A filmmaker and photographer, his works
have won awards such as the Best Photo Essay at the US-ASEAN Film & Photography
Festival.
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Tay Yek Keak
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Dr Victor Valbuena
Dr Victor Valbuena is Director of the School of Technology for the Arts, Republic
Polytechnic. He was formerly Director of School of Film and Media Studies, Ngee
Ann Polytechnic, where he also taught classes in Asian Cinema, Introduction to Film,
and Film Appreciation. He is a Member of the Film Specialist Panel at the National
Arts Council, and was for 10 years a Member of the Board of the Singapore Film Commission.
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Dr Wong Lung Hsiang
With a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering, and now an Assistant Professor
at the National Institute of Education, Wong Lung Hsiang picked up movie watching as a hobby a
decade ago. He is now the Secretary of the Singapore Film Society and a freelance
film reviewer of Lianhe Zaobao, "Good Morning, Singapore!" and FM95.8 Capitol Radio.
He was also involved in curating Chinese Film Festival 1998, Taiwanese/Hong Kong
Film Festival 2000, and Beijing Film Academy Students' Film Festival 2004, to name
a few.
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Yong Shu Chiang
Yong Shu Chiang has a decade's experience as a journalist, writing for publications
such as BigO, The Peak, Straits Times, TODAY,
Business Times, First and Home & Decor. He is marketing manager for the Singapore Film Society and has organised
film events including the festival of Singapore films, Cine Singapore, in 2006.
He has also taught Film Appreciation at LaSalle. He currently writes freelance.
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