ShPFF | Meet the Jury of the CN Short Film Awards

The 12th ShanghaiPRIDE Film Festival is on for this summer! 30 submissions from China, UK, Canada, USA, and Malaysia made it to the final selection of the Chinese Short Film Awards and are in the running for five awards: Best Film, Best Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, and Best Sound & Music. The jury is expecting the tremendous films to represent Pride around the world.

Now, let us meet the jury of 2020 ShPFF Chinese Short Film Awards.

Huang Yue

Huang Yue graduated from Yale Divinity School with a Master of Arts in Religion in 2017. Since 2018, he has been serving as the Director of Programming at CineCina Film Festival in New York. In this capacity, he organized a retrospective of Lou Ye’s films and a special program dedicated to short films by Hangzhou born and based filmmakers. He founded Shanghai Fangtan Culture and co-produced two films in 2019. He is currently based in Shanghai.

Wang Kaixuan

Wang Kaixuan graduated from the Department of Film Production at the Communication University of Zhejiang. She has been the assistant director of the Fengshen Trilogy films. Her short film, We Outlaws, won the Best Chinese Language Film in the first Global University Students Film Festival, Best Film in 2019 ShPFF Chinese Short Film Awards, a Finalist in the Iris Prize Film Festival, and was screened in LACFF, Vancouver Queer Film Festival and many other international film festivals. Kaixuan’s new film, The Big Universe of My Little Girl is still in production.

Tan Jia

Tan Jia is the Associate Professor of Cultural Studies in the Department of Cultural and Religious Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She received her doctoral degree in critical studies of cinema and television from the University of Southern California. Her articles are widely on digital media, feminism, queer culture, film festivals, and they have appeared in Crime, Media, Culture; Critical Studies in Media Communication; GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies; Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, and Journal of Chinese Cinemas. She has been a consultant for various television programs and independent documentaries.

Ivria Dubs

For over eight years, Ivria Dubs has worked with and consulted for a variety of international film organizations and festivals in the USA and Australia, including New York Film Festival, South Asian International Film Festival, Sydney Film Festival and Antenna Documentary Film Festival. In her current role as the Competition Executive for the prestigious Asia Pacific Screen Awards, she curates and helps give exposure to films from the Asia-Pacific region. Ivria is dedicated to promoting visual storytelling and filmmakers from around the globe.

Don’t miss out ShPFF 2020 this summer!