Jury Members at
2010 Taiwan Int’l Children’s Film Festival
C. Jay Shih
 C. Jay Shih started shooting 8mm animation and experimental films while back in college. He won a few times Taiwan’s prestigious Golden Harvest Animation Competition Awards. After graduating, he and friends founded the first clay animation studio in Taiwan, Cats. Between 1988 and 1992, he went to the United States for a master’s degree, studying computer graphics at the New York Institute of Technology. In 1992, he returned home and made 16mm animation Taipei Taipei and 35mm stop motion animation Post Human, which won best animation at the Golden Horse Award, Taiwan’s equivalent of the Academy Awards. This became the landmark of stop motion animation in Taiwanese animation history. Besides teaching, he also works as a freelance animation director for MTV Asia, Channel[V] in Hong Kong, and many others. In 1998, he was invited to be the director of Graduate Institute of Animation at Tainan National College of the Arts – Taiwan’s first graduate department fully dedicated to teaching animation. Since 2004 July, he has been teaching at the Department of Multimedia and Animation Arts of National Taiwan University of Arts, and continuing his dedication to animation education. His latest collaborated work, A Fish with a Smile won the jury award at the 56th Berlinale Kinderfilmfest in 2006.
Jen Chien-Cheng
 Jen Chien-chen, who grew up in a noodle shop, used to be a very shy boy. He often got scholarships due to his humble background. Other than using it to support his studies, he would share it with his classmates by buying them popsicles.
Later on, he majored in drama at the Taipei National University of the Arts. After he graduated, he went to Paris and studied theater at Université de Paris III - Sorbonne Nouvelle. After that, he has been the leader of a children’s theater troupe called Paper Windmill, devoting most of his time to create wonderful children’s drama for the last 20 years in Taipei.
“May art be carried forward by the wind like the paper windmill.”
Koichiro Takahashi
TV Director and Producer, Children’s Programs, NHK Educational Corporation. Koichiro Takahashi joined NHK as a TV director in 1997. He was initially based at one of NHK’s regional stations. In 2002, he transferred to Tokyo, where he began working on the planning, production, and direction of programs for preschoolers. Since 2006, he has been based at one of NHK’s affiliates, NHK Educational Corporation.
Takahashi sees programs for preschoolers as ways to communicate the essential nature of the world around us. He believes the mark of good quality in a program made primarily for this age group is that it’s interesting and entertaining not just to small children but to any viewer regardless of age, knowledge, and language ability.
Takahashi has reflected his philosophy in some of NHK’s most popular preschool programs: Peek-a-boo is one of only a few shows worldwide designed to stimulate curiosity in children up to age two. Nihongo De Asobo (Fun with Japanese) nurtures children’s ability to express themselves using language and has been a hit with adults too. And PythagoraSwitch (winner of Prix Danube, Prix Jeunesse, and Japan Prize awards) nurtures preschoolers’ thinking ability by looking at the shapes and principles that can be found in everyday life.
Takahashi was born in 1971 and has two children.
Li Yuan
 Li Yuan, also known as Xiao-ye, has worked in a range of media companies and services, including television, film production, advertisement, literature and education. He was the deputy director of the planning department at a major film production company, director of programming at Taiwan Television Enterprise, president of Chinese Television System, and the chairman of Taipei Culture Foundation and Taipei Film Festival.
He has published and presented more than 100 pieces of literature and screenplays. He has been awarded many times for his outstanding writing: first prize in a novel competition sponsored by United Daily News, best screenplay at the Asia Pacific Film Festival and Golden Horse Award, and many more. His work and movies are still very popular to this day, and he is still actively involved in producing quality work.
Lin Wen Pao
Lin Wen Pao, born in 1943, mastered in Chinese Literature at Fu Jen Catholic University. He was the department director, administration director, and dean at the teachers college in National Taitung University. He used to be the professor and director at the Institute of Children’s Literature and the dean for the School of Humanities at National Taitung University. His current position is the honorary professor at the Institute of Children’s Literature in National Taitung University.
Lin specializes in New Taiwanese Literature, children’s literature, and language teaching. He has written books on the history of enlightening teaching materials, the studies on children’s poetry, and on recital poetry. He has also edited a collection of children’s literature and other children’s books. Over the years, he has been awarded for his contribution to literature in Taiwan.
Ryan Chen 
< At present >
Chief Operation Officer – Micro-gift integrated marketing Co., Ltd.
<Past experience >
● Initiating director –
YOYO TV , Magic TV and MOMO TV for children
● Chief director – YOYO ABC Digital Channel
● Vice President of Children Affairs Division – SETTV and Videoland TV
● Special Contribution Award –
2000, 8th R.O.C Early Childhood Education Superior Award
● Vice Chairman of the Board – Choice Publishing
Sannette Naeyé
Sannette Naeyé has a long standing and diverse experience in management in the fields of arts and culture. Previously she has worked for two television companies in the Netherlands in the field of art, culture and development. Executive responsibilities included production and television programming. Programming concerned social political documentaries and drama, youth programming (IKON television, head Film department and member editorial board) and arts and culture programming, documentary series, concerts, knowledge quizzes and specials (Editor-in-chief Art and Cultural programming VARA television).
In recent years, Sannette Naeyé has carried out various consulting assignments in culture politics and museum management, staff training, educational services, and in exhibition desgin and development. For the Dutch Ministry of State she wrote an advice concerning Dutch Public Children TV. For the Quipus Foundation in Bolivia, assistance was rendered with regard to the development of two children's museums in Sucre and La Paz (1995). For the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, adviser to the research programme with regard to museum education in the Netherlands (1995-1996). Founding member of Hands On! Foundation (the European Network Organisation for Youth and Children's Museums) and conferences in Amsterdam (Host) and Lisbon. Founding member of Noordermarkt Concerten (2000).
She was member of many boards, of juries and advisory boards of cultural organisations in the field of the media and theatre. Lectures and publications in the field of culture-politics; media-politics; museum-,drama-, media- education.
As the current CEO of Cinekid Foundation, she established the Cinekid festival as a global player in the field of media for children, hosting a variety of seminars, expert meetings, coproduction markets and a programme market for professionals. The festival for the young is a unique event presenting the best and latest (inter-)national Film, TV and New Media productions for young audiences and an innovative participatory programme.
Yang Li Chou
 Director General of the Taiwan Documentary Development Association
Lecturer at Fu Jen Catholic University in Department of Applied Art
Documentary Filmmaker
Li Chou performed his graduate studies at the Tainan National Institute of the Arts Graduate Program in Audio Visual Records. In 1997, his work, Fire Brigade, won both the Taipei Film Festival’s Outstanding Non-Feature Film Award and the Grand Prize in the Documentary Category at the 21st Golden Harvest Award. In 1999, I Love (080) won the NETPAC Special Mention at the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival and Prix Regards Neufs Etat De Vaud at the Nyon International Documentary Film Festival - Visions du Reel. In 2001, The Old West Gate won Taiwan’s Council for Cultural Affairs’ Best Documentary Video. In 2002, Floating Women won the 25th Golden Bell Award’s Prize for Excellence in the Documentary Category. In 2003, Someone else's Shinjuku east won the Best Non-Drama Director at the 38th Golden Bell Awards, and was has been shown at the San Francisco International Film Festival and Chonju International Film Festival. |
