News Today | Jury of Forward Future Section Announced to Discover Budding Filmmakers by Veteran Ones
The Forward Future Section of the 12th BJIFF will be held from August 13 to 18, 2022. For the purposes of “discovering the new filmmakers around the globe in China’s view and encouraging originals on the new wave of films in the world”, the section strives to highlight the cultural connotations of films in various forms, and boost the exchange and communication among young filmmakers all over the world. All the first or second feature films are welcomed regardless of genre, type or style.
In the Forward Future Section of the 12th BJIFF, a total of nearly 600 films from 88 countries and regions received this year are to be reviewed by a jury composed of three world-renowned filmmakers to decide on seven honors from the shortlisted films, namely “Most Popular Feature Picture”, “Most Popular Director”, “Most Popular Screenplay”, “Most Popular Actress”, “Most Popular Actor”, “Most Popular Artistic Contribution” and “Special Mention Film by the Jury”.
Ning Ying, a Chinese director, is invited to be served as the president, and Tan Chui Mui, a Malaysian director and Martti Helde, an Estonian director as members of the jury of the Forward Future Section of the 12th BJIFF.
Ning Ying, Chinese film director, screenwriter and producer. She is the director of "Beijing Trilogy" (For Fun, On the Beat and I Love Beijing), Railroad of Hope, Perpetual Motion, Police Diary and other films, which have won many awards at domestic and foreign film festivals. She received the Cavaliere, Ordine Stella D'Italia in 2005 and was named one of the world's 1,000 Nobel Women of Peace by the Alliance de Societes Feminines suisses. She has been a judge of the Golden Rooster Awards in China and other international film festivals, such as Berlin International Film Festival, Germany, Locarno International Film Festival, Switzerland, Torino International Film Festival, and Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival.
Tan Chui Mui, Malaysian Director. She was born in Kuantan, Malaysia in 1978, and her first feature film, Love Conquers All, won the New Currents Award and the Award of Film Critics Association at the Busan International Film Festival, and the Hivos Tiger Award at the Rotterdam International Film Festival. Her short film Everyday Everyday won the top prize at the Clermont-Ferrand. She has been invited to the Cannes Film Foundation's creative camp in the village, and has also been a tutor in many film workshops. In 2015, she launched Next New Wave to design and conduct film workshops for young Malaysian filmmakers. In 2017, she founded the Southeast Asia Short Film Festival, which focuses on showcasing Southeast Asian short films. Her latest feature film Barbarian Invasion won the Jury Award at the Golden Goblet Awards of the Shanghai International Film Festival.
Martti Helde, Estonian director, screenwriter and writer. His debut film, Risttuules, won the award of Best New Director in the Forward Future Section of the 5th BJIFF and the award of Best Estonian Film judged by the Estonian Film Journalists Association. In the same year, the film was selected for the Toronto International Film Festival, becoming the first Estonian film in the festival's history. In 2019, Scandinavian Silence directed by him, which was nominated for the East of the West Award at the 54th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. Martti Helde is a highly regarded young filmmaker with bold ideas and innovative approaches to film form and language. His work is characterized by the combination of complex and diverse media and the fusion of his passion for drama and form—characteristics that are vividly reflected in all his works. Helde is a former creative director of museums and exhibitions and curated the Estonian pavilion at Expo 2021 in Dubai.
No great success was ever achieved without nothing and failure. At the very first day of career, every director tries to tell their own stories instead of depicting the world, just starting from their first feature film, and then the second and the third and so on. With the growing skills and maturing style, they could write down the most fascinating chapter of their own. The jury, at the Forward Future Section, is going to great lengths to discover all talented new filmmakers and their brilliant works.
