Preliminary Selection Jury
Short Films and Student Short Films Competition

LIN Chiao-Fang currently teaches at the Graduate Institute of Animation and Film Art at the Tainan National University of the Arts. In recent years, she focuses on the creativity demonstrated in the independent animation aesthetics and the interpretation from the multiple points of view. From 2014 to 2016, she organized the Eastern European Animation Art Workshop. The animation shorts she has made include Slow Return, I See You, Sun and Moon, The Red Bloom and Homesick. Through the creation of animation, she materializes the inner poetic landscape and the spiritual reality while exploring the power hidden behind the images.

HSUEH Yu-Ting is Taiwan's award-winning faculty filmmaker with more than 50 film festivals records, including Oscar® qualifying competitions, such as Chicago International Film Festival, Montreal Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, LA Shorts Fest, RiverRun International Film Festival, St. Louis International Film Festival, Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia. He is the winner of Best Animation at 2018 Beverly Hills Film Festival, the winner of Best Experimental at 2017 World Animation Celebration, the winner of Best Animation at 2018 Taipei Film Awards. Hsueh holds an MFA from Cinema and Television Arts at Columbia College Chicago and a BFA from Fine Arts at National Taiwan Normal University. Used to be a high school teacher, video game artist, commercial animator, and AR/VR animation director for Ministry of Culture, Academia Sinica, Volkswagen Taiwan. Yuting is assistant professor at Chinese Culture University and Taipei National University of the Arts, maintaining an active production profile of independent and commissioned projects.

ZHANG Xu-Zhan graduated from the School of Film and New Media at the Taipei National University of the Arts. Embodying the video art with animation, Zhang explores all sorts of possibilities of using animation to expand the audience’s viewing experience and the various forms of image. His works are known for the seemingly strange and ridiculous images, and the content often centers around his observation on society and the memories and the skills of the Taoist paper art essential to his family, reflecting his thoughts in the cultural trends. His films have been shown at the galleries and the international short film festivals around the world. In 2018, his Si So Mi was presented at the 2018 Shanghai Biennale at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Shanghai. Moreover, it was nominated for Best Animated Short Film at the 2018 Golden Horse Awards and won the Grand Prix of Taiwanese Short Film Competition at the 2018 TIAF. In 2019, Zhang was invited to take part in the Lyon Biennale at the Institut d'art contemporain, Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes.