Best New Director of the 31st Hong Kong Film Awards in 2012. Her debut film Lovers on the Road (2008) won the Best Drama Award of the 8th South Taiwan Film Festival. Her second feature Big Blue Lake (2012) won the Jury Special Award of the Golden Koala Chinese Film Festival and the Asian New Talent Award Jury Prix of the 15th Shanghai International Film Festival. Other films include the French-Hong Kong co-production documentary Flowing Stories (2014), feature film Scent (2014) and The Lady Improper (2019).

Aaron Khek Ah-hock (left), Ix Wong Thien-pau (right)

Ix Wong Thien-pau was born in 1974 in Sabah, Malaysia. He graduated from The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts in 1998, and has danced professionally with the City Contemporary Dance Company from 1998 to 2000. He was the Rehearsal Director and dancer of The Arts Fission Company in Singapore from 2000 to 2002.

Ix founded contemporary art collective “Ah Hock & Peng Yu” with his partner Aaron Khek Ah-hock. The company produces works co-created by the duo. In Spring 2016, the duo and two other established Singaporean artists, multi-disciplinary artist Nirmala Seshadri and cellist Leslie Tan, started a laboratory called L3–Lalu Lalang Lab.

Kattie Fan is a curator, producer, art manager and educator who works across the fields of film, media arts, digital art, culture and technology. Currently, she is the Festival Director of Hong Kong Arts Centre’s ifva Awards and Festival, one of the most well-established short film and media arts festivals in Asia. Fan has been curating the annual event since 2015, organising over 50 film screenings, arts exhibitions, outdoor activities and educational projects per year.

Born in Hong Kong, Teresa Kwong is a promoter, curator and producer of film and cross-disciplinary artistic practices. As the Programme Director of the Hong Kong Arts Centre, she is committed to nurturing and promoting the next generation of artistic talents. She is also an active independent film producer and has been working with a number of up-and-coming filmmakers in Hong Kong and mainland China since 2006. The award-winning titles she produced include Suk Suk, which was screened at the 70th Berlin International Film Festival in 2020.

Lam Chi-fai graduated from the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong. He is experienced in procedural graphics, interaction technology and social intervention. Lam is a member of the artist collective Add Oil Team.

IV Chan received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Maryland Institute College of Art in the United States and a postgraduate diploma in visual arts from Goldsmiths, University of London. She returned to Hong Kong to pursue a Master of Fine Arts from The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). Chan is currently a part-time lecturer at the CUHK, teaching the fundamentals of 3D forming.

Carmen Cheng collaborates with artists and multi-media creative talents from around the world on theatre and commercial productions. She specialises in art direction, design and creative production. Cheng has managed over 100 productions in her over 20-year career, including dance, drama and musical performances as well as installations, exhibitions, music videos, films, advertising commercials, concerts, theme parks and music festivals.

Benny Chan graduated from the School of Film and Television, The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (HKAPA) with a major in Sound Design. He later received a Master of Arts in Intercultural Studies from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Chan has been a lecturer at the HKAPA since 2016. He has attained Avid’s expert-level ICON Mixer certification by completing the Pro Tools 310I course and is a Certified Operator of the Avid 101, 201 and 210P Pro Tools.

Eunice Martins is a pianist and composer working between classical and contemporary music. She specialises in film scores. Martins performs and composes for silent films, and creates soundtracks for experimental films, video art, feature films and documentaries.