International Jury For Jin Jue Award

Danny BOYLE (British director)
One of the UK\'s finest directors, Danny Boyle has a wide array of critically acclaimed and commercially successful film credits: Shallow Grave, Trainspotting, A Life Less Ordinary, The Beach, Alien Love Triangle, 28 Days Later, Millions and Sunshine.  Slumdog Millionaire is his eighth international theatrically-released film and it won 8 Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director in 2009.

 

HUANG Jianxin (Chinese director) Huang Jianxin, Chairman of the Beijing Film Director Association, has won awards at international film festivals in Shanghai, Tokyo, Fukuoka, and Rotterdam.  He has been honoured by inclusion in the "Top 10 Chinese Language Film" category at the Hong Kong International Film Festival three times.  His productions Black Cannon Incident and Back to Back, Face to Face have made Asia Week magazine\'s list of the "Top 100 Chinese Films in the 20th Century".  In 2005, Gimme Kudos won the Jury Grand Prix and Best Screenplay at the 8th Shanghai International Film Festival. Huang has been a jury member at many film competitions and festival events, such as China\'s 12th and 26th Golden Rooster Awards; 11th Fukuoka International Film Festival; and 25th Cairo International Film Festival.  He was jury president in the 11th Pyongyang International Film Festival.

 

 

Xavier Koller is a member of the Executive Board of the Foreign Language Film Committee of the Academy of Motion Pictures, Arts & Sciences, LA. His work Gripsholm was honoured with the Prix C.I.C.A.E (Confederation des Cinémas d\'Arts et d\'Essai Européan) and represented Switzerland to compete in the Academy Awards.  Journey of Hope received the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1991, and the Leopard at the Film Festival Locarno.  Tanner - The Rebellion was granted the National Award of the Ministry of Culture, the FIPRESCI Award at the Montreal Film Festival, and represented Switzerland at the Academy Awards in 1986.  The Frozen Heart won the National Award of the Ministry of Culture, Movie of the Year, and was the biggest grossing Swiss film of 1980.

Komaki KURIHARA (Japanese actress)

 

Komaki Kurihara graduated from Tokyo Ballet School when she was 18.  After that she started her career as an actress.  She soon got the chance to play a role in her first television drama Niji no Sekkei.  Through the television dramas Sanshimai, Sannin Kazoku, Mitsume Itari, and Furinkazan, in which she played leading roles, she began to win awards in Japan. From the 1970s Kurihara focused more on feature films.  Endless Love (Ai to Shi), The Long Darkness (Shinobugawa), Sandakan No. 8 (Sandakan Hachibanshokan Bohkyo), Moscow, My Love (Mosukuwa Wagaai), and Kosodate Gokko were her main works of that period.  Among the 5 films, The Long Darkness won her several prizes including the Golden Arrow Award, the Mainichi Film Award, and the Air France Award. Kurihara has been a judge at the Moscow International Film Festival and the Tokyo International Film Festival, as well as President of Judge Board of Russia\'s Khanti-Mansiysk Film Festival.

Andrew Wai Keung LAU (Hong Kong producer, director, cinematographer)

 

Andrew Lau stared his career in the film industry with the Shaw Brothers Studio as an assistant cinematographer.  With his dedication and hard work, he was promoted to Cinematographer in 1985.  He is extremely skilful in handling hand-held cameras for live-action scenes.  His talents are exhibited in such films as Fallen Angels, As Tears Go By, Six Million Dollar Man and Return to a Better Tomorrow.  Lau began directing films in 1991. In 1995, he directed the sequel to Young and Dangerous which broke box-office records.  Over the next three years, he directed 7 films in the Young and Dangerous series.  In 2002, he has teamed with a group of experienced production specialists to work on his first blockbuster Infernal Affairs, which broke several records at the Hong Kong box office, and won seven awards at the 22nd Hong Kong Film Awards.  Hollywood adapted Infernal Affairs as The Departed, which was very successful in film festivals in the United States.


Andie MACDOWELL (American actress)

 

Andie MacDowell has established herself as an accomplished actress in a career that is showing no signs of slowing down.  Her undeniable charm and talent have gained her in worldwide recognition.  She first received critical acclaim for her performance as a repressed young wife in Steven Soderbergh\'s Sex, Lies and Videotape (1989).  The film won the Palme d\'or at Cannes, and garnered MacDowell the Independent Spirit Award and the Los Angeles Film Critics Award for Best Actress, as well as her first Golden Globe nomination. MacDowell earned the worldwide title of #1 female box-office draw with her performances in the smash hit romantic comedy Four Weddings and a Funeral for which she received a Golden Globe nomination, and the western Bad Girls with Drew Barrymore.  She also starred in the holiday classic Groundhog Day.  In other comedies MacDowell continued to partner with top leading men including Gérard Depardieu in Green Card, for which she again earned a Golden Globe nomination, Michael Keaton in Multiplicity, and John Travolta in Michael. Additional dramatic performances include The End of Violence, directed by Wim Wenders, which was selected to screen at the opening of the 50th Anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival; Robert Altman\'s The Player and Short Cuts, for which the cast earned a special Golden Globe Award for Best Ensemble; Unstrung Heroes, directed by Diane Keaton; and the ever-popular St. Elmo\'s Fire.

OH Jungwan (Korean producer)
OH Jungwan made her debut as a producer in 1998 and established her production company in 1999.  Since then, she has focused on producing accomplished feature films with a unique style which challenges conventional ideas.  These have been well-received by film critics and audiences in Korea and around the world. Her production An Affair won the Newport Beach International Film Festival and Fukuoka Asian Film Festival.  The Foul King was selected at the Berlin International Film Festival Forum.  Tears was selected at the Berlin International Film Festival Panorama.  A Tale of Two Sisters was honoured at the Portugal Fantasporto Film Festival (Best Film/Director/Actress).  The Uninvited was awarded at the Sitges International Film Festival (Citizen Cane Award-Best New Director).  A Bittersweet Life was selected at the Cannes Film Festival.  Woman on the Beach was selected for special presentation at the Toronto International Film Festival: Special presentation, and at the Berlin International Film Festival Panorama.  Night and Day was nominated at the 58th Berlin International Film Festival Competition.  My Dear Enemy was selected at the 59th Berlin International Film Festival Forum.