International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam
Jury members
IDFA Competition for First Appearance With over 20 years of experience in documentary filmmaking, Chinese filmmaker Liang Bibo’s films have won many national and international prizes, and were selected by many international film festivals in the United States, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Hungary, Romania and Brazil. In 2001, Bibo conducted research on documentary films in New York City as the Visiting Fellow of the Asian Cultural Council (ACC) of America, an affiliate of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. He has served as a jury member for the Shanghai International TV Festival, the “Message to Man” International Documentary Short and Animated Film Festival, the International Short Film Festival in Drama, Greece, the Aljazeera International Documentary Film Festival, the Dhaka International Film Festival, and the Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival. Ollie Huddleston is an award-winning editor who has been working on documentaries for over 20 years. His talent and unique observational style has led to collaborations with some of documentary’s leading figures, including Kim Longinotto, Angus Macqueen, Sean McAllister and Adam Curtis. His recent credits include Pink Saris (2010) and Knuckle (2010). The films he has edited have won awards at Cannes, IDFA, and the Sundance Film Festival. Monster Jiminez is currently the managing director of Arkeofilms, a film and commercial production house based in Manila known for their award-winning independent films. Jimenez has been involved in all of the films produced by Arkeofilms, working as producer, editor or writer. Most notable works include the comedy full-length feature Big Time (Mario Cornejo), which she co-wrote and produced and which won best screenplay in the Cinemalaya Independent Film Awards, and her directorial debut Kano: An American and His Harem, a documentary feature that won the IDFA Award for First Appearance in 2010. Kano also won Best Documentary at the 2010 Cinemanila International Film Festival. Jiminez recently finished the short documentary Are Clouds Blue?, about erroneous textbooks in public schools.
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Margje de Koning completed a graduate degree in Theater Studies at the University of Amsterdam and the Radio, Film, and Television Course at the University of Bristol. After finishing her studies, De Koning made all sorts of documentaries for many different broadcasting companies. In 2004, she became a part-time teacher for the Culture and Media Studies program in the University of Amsterdam’s Film and Television department. In August 2004, she started work as a commissioning editor for Dutch public television. In this function, she produces creative documentaries on contemporary issues with a strong human interest angle. Since January 2005, De Koning has also been responsible for the Television Department at the Dutch public broadcaster IKON. Basil Tsiokos is a documentary programming associate for the Sundance Film Festival and a consultant for filmmakers and film festivals. He holds a Masters degree from New York University in Cinema Studies and completed his undergraduate degrees at Stanford University. He is a regular contributor to indieWIRE, often covering film festivals. Tsiokos also serves as iW’s curator for Hulu’s Documentaries page. He is a visiting professor at the Pratt Institute, teaching a course on film festivals and overseeing students as they organize the Wallabout Student Short Film Festival. He is the Co-Producer of Cameron Yates’s feature documentary The Canal Street Madam (World Premiere, SXSW Competition 2010). Between 1996 and 2008, Tsiokos was the Artistic and Executive Director of NewFest: The NY LGBT Film Festival. He has served on numerous film festival juries and panels, including the Atlanta Film Festival, the Berlinale, DOC NYC, and SXSW. He can be found on Twitter as @1basil1 and on his blog what (not) to doc (http://WhatNotToDoc.com), offering advice and information to filmmakers.