Arthur&Diana
Deutsches Filmfest

She was born in an Italian family in France in 1988. In 2011 she finished her master’s degree in film, for which she studied in France, Italy, and the USA. She has lived and worked in Berlin since then, where she studied directing at the Deutsche Film und Fernsehakademie Berlin. After several short films, her first feature film The Last to See Them celebrated its world premiere at the Berlinale. The film subsequently screened at numerous festivals worldwide and won awards for Best Director and Best Feature. In 2020, Sara won the German cultural institution BKM’s Screenplay Grant for her project A Safe Place.

Tsang Tsui-Shan, Best New Director of the 31st Hong Kong Film Award 2012. Tsang studied sound design at the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts’s School of Film and Television before she entered the MFA program in Media Design and Technology at the City University of Hong Kong. After graduating in 2005. Beginning with short film productions, her works have been presented internationally. Her films have typically focused on female stories in the humanitarian grounds.  In 2008 her first directed feature film Lovers On the Road won the Best Drama Award of the 8th South Taiwan Film Festival. And her second feature Big Blue Lake had won the Jury Special Award of the Golden Koala Chinese Film Festival 2013 and the Asian New Talent Jury Prix of the Shanghai International Film Festival 2012. TSANG finished her French/ Hong Kong co-production feature documentary Flowing Stories, it received the FilmAid Asia’s Humanitarian Award in 2016. Her feature dramas also included a mainland drama Scent released in 2014, The Lady Improper in 2019. TSANG apart from narrative feature, she keeps pushing her boundary in dialogues with different art disciplines, she had been collaborating with different local dancers from 2015 making few dance video works. In 2022, her first VR project Chroma 11 was officially selected by the 79th Venice International Film Festival, Venice Immersive section. Her latest documentary feature Winter Chants released in 2023.

Choi Sin Yi, Emilie is a doctoral candidate at the School of Creative Media at City University. Her research topic is the media infrastructure of smart cities in East Asia and its political and environmental impact. She has also conducted research that spans the experimental practices of moving image and the cultural Cold War in Hong Kong in the 1960s and 1970s, as well as contemporary documentary, video, and media art. She has previously presented her research at institutions such as transmediale in Germany and the EYE Filmmuseum in the Netherlands. She also occasionally writes, curates, and works as a documentary producer. Currently, she serves on the board of directors for Videotage and the Unlock Dancing Plaza.