A drinks reception offered in the evening for networking. As well as professionals from the UK, we are also inviting established filmmakers from China to become guests at our festival. There will be interpreters to ease the communication. We will distribute a delegates'list with the contact details to all those who sign up.

The Jury of One Minute Award

	Prof. Chris Berry, The president of the jury of One Minute Award Chris Berry is a Professor of Film and Television Studies in the Department of Media and Communication at Goldsmiths College. His research is focused on Chinese cinemas and other Chinese screen-based media, with a particular interest in gender, sexuality, and the postcolonial politics of time and space. His recent publications include China on Screen: Cinema and the National (with Mary Farquhar, Columbia University Press and Hong Kong University Press, 2006); The Cultural Revolution after the Cultural Revolution: Postsocialist Cinema in Post-Mao China (New York: Routledge, 2004) and Chinese Films in Focus: 25 New Takes (editor, London: British Film Institute, 2003).
	Gideon Koppel, One Minute Award Jury Gideon Koppel 's prolific work as a film maker and artist is exhibited in a wide range of formats from the film installation for fashion label Comme des Garcons seen at the Florence Biennale… to award winning commercials and documentaries such as the controversial 'Ooh la la and the art of dressing up' for BBC which explores the psychopathology of celebrity. He has just finished his first feature film with Executive Producers Margaret Matheson, Mike Figgis and Serge Lalou. Gideon is a faculty member at Royal Holloway, University of London and teaches with Professor Theodore Zeldin at HEC, Paris.
	Prof. Tao Wang, One Minute Award Jury  Prof.Wang Tao now holds the senior lectureship of Chinese Archaeology at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)  and the Institute of Archaeology (UCL) and is the Chair of the Centre of Chinese Studies at SOAS.  His research interests extend from early cultures to the historic heritages such as lost cities of the Silk Road. He has organized and participated in a number of international conferences and workshops and has published widely: journal articles, conference papers, entries of general references.  In recent years, he has been the adviser and contributor for a number of television programs about Chinese history and archaeology.
	John Quick, One Minute Award Jury John Quick has extensive credits for ITV and Channel 4 and others as a Director and Video Editor. A founder member of the Media Arts Department at Royal Holloway, University of London and also of the internationally recognized MA in Documentary by Practice. Increasingly John is working with new technologies and is particularly interested in the development and potential of moving image on the web and the concepts of Web 2.0.  He has a major film website under development that has received development funding from West Focus/Park and will offer users unique methods to archive, retrieve, mash up and map with video.
	Hugh Purcell, One Minute Award Jury Hugh Purcell, an award-winner of the 1991Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, 1991 British Academy of Film & TV Award (BAFTA) and 1992 Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, is an expert in film, television and radio. His most recent documentaries includes War & Peace in India screened on BBC2 in 2003, The Secret Diaries of Roger Casement screened on BBC4 in 2002, and Liberia – America’s Stepchild screened on PBS in 2002. Most recently he has been working as a freelance history documentary director & lecturer.
	Prof. Suliu He, One Minute Award Jury Suliu He is a Professor of Television Studies in the School of Television and Jorunalism at the Communication University of China. He is also the deputy secretary-general of the Chinese Documentary Association, a member of the International Documentary Association, the founder and the director of www. chinadocu.com, the deputy chairman of the Jury team at the sixth International Youth Television Festival as well as the deputy director of the committee of the International Science Documentary Exhibition, Beijing.

Special Guests

	John Hodges, John was holding the 'Best Short Film' Award from OXDOX. He is also a director of Talking Media Ltd.  TML produces TV and cinema documentaries and feature films mainly with an East Asian connection.  TML's documentary 'Chiru', about the Tibetan Antelope and made by Xiaoyan Men, won the Best Short Film Award at the 2007 OXDOX Film Festival.  TML is currently engaged in the making of the feature film, 'The Long March'. John's background is in Science, Engineering and Business Management.  Before setting up TML, John was a science education consultant and worked for organisations such as the British Council, Oxford University and the United Nations.
	Yuan Zhang, Independent film director and producer Zhang Yuan was born in Nanjing (Province of Jian Su), P.R. China, in 1963. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Cinematography from the Beijing Film Academy in 1989. In 1990, Zhang produced and directed his first feature film, Mama. In 1999 Zhang Yuan also directed a feature film Seventeen Years, a family drama of hate, crime and reconciliation, which won the Best Director award at the 56th Venice Film Festival. Major Works: Mama (1990) Beijing Bustards (1992) Sons (1995) East Palace, West Palace (1996) Demolition and Relocation (1998) Seventeen Years (1999) Green Tea (2002) Little Red Flowers (2005)
	Zhangke Jia, Born in 1970 in Fenyang, Jia Zhangke is a leading figure in the Chinese film directors. In 1998 his first feature film Xiao Wu made a major success on the international film circuit. Since then Jia had scored a string of internationally acclaimed independent features including 2000's Platform, 2002's Unknown Pleasures (Ren xiao yao) and 2004's The World. This foreshadowed his winning the 2006 Golden Lion award for his film, Still Life (Sanxia haoren). In 2006 Jia released his first documentary, East (Dong). Major Works: Xiao Shan Going Home (1995) - Short film Dudu (1996) - Short film Xiao Wu (1997) - Hong Kong Independent Short Film & Video Awards Platform (2000) In Public (2001) - Short film Unknown Pleasures (2002) The World (2004) Still Life (2006) - Golden Lion Award for Best Film. East (2006) - documentary Useless (2007) - documentary Age of Tattoo (2008, planned release) Shuang Xionghui (planned)
	Zien Cui, A director, film scholar, novelist, movie critic, film screenplay writer, and film producer Cui is one of the most important avant-garde DV makers in Chinese underground film. Graduated from the Chinese Academy of Social Science with an MA in literature and now is deputy researcher at the Film Research Institute of the Beijing Film Academy, he has also published nine novels in China and Hong Kong, one of which, Uncle's Past, won the 2001 Radio Literature Award in Germany. Major Works: The Old Testament (2002) - 53rd Berlin Internationale Filmfestspiele PANORAMA/TEDDY Man Yan (2003) - 34th International Film Festival Rotterdam Night Scene (2004) - 34th International Film Festival Rotterdam Star Appeal (2005) - 24th Vancouver International Film Festival Withered in a Blooming Season (2006) - 50th London Film Festival Refrain ( 2006 ) - 31st Hong Kong International Film Festival Only Child (2007) - 12th Pusan International Film Festival
	Xiaolu Guo, A London-based writer and filmmaker, she has published six books in her native China. Her films include the documentary Concrete Revolution and the feature How is Your Fish Today? The English language translation of her second novel, Village of Stone, was short-listed for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2004-2005. Her most recent book, A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers (written in English) was nominated for the Orange Prize. Major Works: How Is Your Fish Today? (2006) Address Unknown (2006)
	Jiang Xiao,  Holging a Master's degree in Directing from the Beijing Film Academy, Xiao Jiang has already directed five TV films (Landscapes on Breasts, The Eve, Love About You, Love Should Be Heard), and written several film scripts before making debut feature, Electric Shadows. Major Works: Electric Shadows (2004) PK.COM.CN (2006)
	WangWang Wang, Graduated from Tsinghua University in 1988, he is a designer, a painter, a poet and an advocate of Chinese contemporary art. He has done image design for numerous celebrities and has been acclaimed as one of China’s top designers. His clients include Pepsi, Motorola, CCTV, Phoenix TV, etc. He is the only designer in China to have published three personal albums of his works. Video Arts: Music of Ink (2006) Disappear (2006)