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Air Canada Short Film or Video Award

All short films and videos are eligible for this prize. Opportunity to broadcast on Air Canada’s in-flight entertainment screens on international flights

The Time Agent

Jude Chun

A Cello in the Subway

Iven Tu

The Heart’s Scar

Thuy Le & Tiago Espirito Santo

The Threshold

Nishant Roy Bombarde

Animasian
Award

All animated works are eligible for this prize.
$1,000 cash prize

Nutag – Homeland

Alisi Telengut

Honourable Mention

The Wrong Block

Sam Chou

DGC-Ontario & WIFT-T
Film Award

All films made by female-identified Ontario-based artists are eligible for this prize.
$1,000 cash prize + $1,200 programming pass and one-year membership to WIFT-T.

36 Questions

Jennifer Su

Menkes
Audience Choice

All feature works are eligible for this prize, selected through a tally of votes from the viewers of the 20th anniversary edition Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival.
$4,000 cash prize

Mixed Match

Jeff Chiba Stearns

So You Think You Can Pitch Winners

with support from

Emerging Category

Forbidden Tikka Masala

Rahul Chaturvedi

Established Category

180

Vivian Lin & Jennifer Millington

2016 Features Jury

Shu Kei

Shu Kei is a Hong Kong film director and screenwriter best known for the 1990 film Sunless Days 没有太阳的日子, a documentary exploring the Tiananmen Square massacre and its influence on the people of Hong Kong in the days preceding the 1997 handover of the city to the People’s Republic of China. Currently, he is the Dean of Film and Television at the Hong Kong Academy for the Performing Arts

Jogsuk Thomas Nam

Jongsuk Thomas Nam joined the Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (BiFan) in 2007. He is currently the managing director of BiFan’s film industry program, Network of Asian Fantastic Films (NAFF). He has served as a jury and a film industry speaker in numerous film festivals and conferences, including Sitges, Berlin, Hawaii, Warsaw, Vesoul, TIFFCOM, Yubari, Fantastic Fest-Austin, IFX-Philippines, EARS in Helsinki, Talinn Industry Days, ScreenSingapore, and is an avid karaoke fan.

Marcia Douglas

Marcia Douglas is the Director of Business Affairs & Digital Initiatives of the Canadian Media Producers Association (CMPA), Canada’s leading trade association for independent producers. She brings extensive experience and a broad knowledge of the Canadian media landscape and the production and financing of projects across all platforms.

2016 Shorts Jury

Vikas Kohli

Vikas Kohli is the Artistic Director of Bollywood Monster Mashup (the largest South Asian festival in Canada) and Monster Rock Orchestra (People’s Choice Award, Mississauga). His award-winning contributions include Mission Istaanbul (performed live at the International Indian Film Academy Awards (IIFA), and two Bollywood albums with Mika Singh.

Adam Shamoon

Adam Shamoon is the founding director of the DOC Institute, an initiative of the Documentary Organization of Canada, Toronto Chapter, which provides a hub for nonfiction professionals to learn business skills, hone their craft and make industry connections. Learn more at www.docinstitute.com

Eileen Arandiga

Eileen Arandiga is the former Festival Director of the CFC Worldwide Short Film Festival, a festival she was associated with for over 10 years in various capacities. Eileen has run film and video workshops for young women in Toronto, has sat on festival juries, and has been a guest speaker at festivals around the world.

2016 Documentary Jury

Karla Bobadilla

Karla Bobadilla is an entertainment and media lawyer, practicing primarily in film, television and new media rights acquisition, production and distribution. Previously, she worked at the Canadian Media Production Association providing policy, regulatory, government relations, strategic planning, advocacy, and lobby work. Karla is also the former Chair of the Board of Directors of Reel Asian.

Immanuel Lanzaderas

Immanuel Lanzaderas is a bilingual criminal lawyer for Legal Aid Ontario. He is a founding member of the Federation of Asian Canadian Lawyers, and served on their board of directors for five years. Immanuel enjoys tennis, and Fifth Generation Chinese Cinema.

Victoria Shen

Victoria Shen is a human rights and labour lawyer. She works at the Canadian Media Producers Association (CMPA) as Director, National Industrial Relations and Counsel. She is a former board member of FACL and President of CCNCTO. She was a board member of Reel Asian from 2008-2014.

2016 Pitch Jury

Lisa Valencia-Svensson

Lisa Valencia-Svensson is an award-winning documentary film producer based in Toronto. Her first feature-length documentary, Herman’s House, won an Emmy for Outstanding Arts & Cultural Programming. Her second feature Migrat Dreams was a Top Ten Audience Favourite at Hot Docs. Her passion is for film projects which explore issues of inequality and social justice.

Michael Fukushima

Michael Fukushima is studio head and executive producer of the National Film Board of Canada’s world-renowned English Animation Studio. After freelancing following college, Fukushima joined the Animation Studio in 1990 as a filmmaker, then became a studio producer, and is now head of the fabled studio, with over 200 films (and some nice awards and nominations) under his belt.

Kattie Fan

Kattie Fan is dedicated to integrating theoretical knowledge with artistic and technical skills to create art experiences for people and gain a wider vision in life. Currently she is the festival director of ifva – an event organised by the Hong Kong Arts Centre and one of the most established short film and media art awards festivals in the region. She is also a co-founder of art ware – an indepenent curatorial initiative focusing on the promotion of moving images and new media art in Hong Kong since 2010

*All decisions made by the juries are final and binding and not subject to appeal.

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