ACF - Asian Cinema Fund

Edwina BRANDON-KANE is a co-founding partner of Brandon/Kane Productions in Los Angeles. Edwina has over 25 years of experience in fundraising, marketing, and audience development. As a co-partner of Brandon/Kane productions, Edwina works full-time helping documentarians secure funding and distribution. Edwina has also served as an advisor and panelist for numerous organizations including the National Endowment for the Arts, the International Documentary Association, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, American Documentary Film Festival, and the New Filmmakers of Los Angeles where she has contributed her expertise to advising, reviewing proposals, and rating artists and organizations from widely varying disciplines.

He was awarded Best Screenplay Award of Montreal International Film Festival in 1990, and awarded Korea Broadcasting Best Award with a documentary . Also he made a feature length documentary in 2000, in 2011. Lately he's trying to develop the new kind of film which blend a documentary form with a fantasy, in 2017. He is the president of Fantacon which organize the annual Gwangmyeong International Fantasy Festival from 2014.

Vic is the co-founding partner of Brandon/Kane Productions in Los Angeles and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. He honed his marketing and audience development skills from over 30 years in the private-sector working in advertising, management consulting, and research-based policy think-tanks. In addition to his role at Brandon/Kane Productions, he is an Associate Professor and Head of the Asia Graduate Centre (Graduate Business School) at RMIT University in Ho Chi Minh City (aka Saigon). RMIT (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology) University is headquartered in Melbourne, Australia and is one of the world’s leading global universities.

Sunah Kim earned a B.A. in Communications in Korea and a M.A. in Film in U.S.A. In 2006, she started working with Korean documentary productions as a field producer. For 12 years, she had worked on over 60 documentaries which were aired on major TV stations in Korea. She also produced narrative films for independent filmmakers in New York and directed TV programs that were aired on five cable channels in the U.S. In 2014, she moved back to Korea, and started working with several international documentary projects. She has participated in many prestigious documentary programs in Korea and Europe, including IDFA Summer School and Film Forum, and produced a highly acclaimed feature documentary, Singing with Angry Bird.

Leh-Chyun Lin is an independent filmmaker and an Adjunct Associate Professor at National Taiwan University’s Graduate Institute of Journalism. Mr. Lin was most recently the COO of CNEX Studio Corp. and the Vice President of The Public Television Service in Taiwan, where he oversaw the production, commissioning and programming of documentary films. Mr. Lin received his master’s degree from University of Missouri-Columbia’s School of Journalism; he began his career as a print journalist in New York and Hong Kong. In the past 2 decades, he has worked in Taiwan’s television and internet industry. Mr. Lin’s production honors include the Peabody Award, Banff Rockie Award, and Asian Television Award.

Jane Ray is Artistic Director at The Whickers and a multi-award winning documentary maker and executive producer in radio and television. Her awards range from the Sony Award for best news programme (2002) and the TRIC award for best children’s programme (1993), to China’s Golden Kapok award for best director (2014). Having spent 29 years at the BBC, Jane worked with Alan Whicker in the 1990s and in 2015 got the call to help set up a new documentary foundation funded by his generous legacy. She wrote and directed Radio 4’s archive programme about Alan: Around the World in 80 years, presented by Michael Palin, and is immensely proud to have participated in his work for TV and radio.

Born in Hong Kong, Mary studied in Concordia University, Canada. She was Editor for French New Wave director Eric Rohmer for 20 years, and edited award-winning fiction and documentary films in many countries including Blind Mountain (Li Yang), 1428 and A Young Patriot (Du Haibin), Last Train Home (Fan Lixin), Majority (Seren Yüce), Flowing Stories (Jessey Tsang), Dot 2 Dot (Amos Why), The Apology (Tiffany Hsiung, 2016 BIFF) Our Time Will Come (Ann Hui, 2017 BIFF), and currently Buddha In Africa (Nicole Shafer). Her directing works include The Memory Of Water and Vision from the Edge: Breyten Breytenbach Painting the Lines. She teaches and consults and often acts as script-advisor and associate producer on recent films she edited.

Programmer for diverse indie cinema event in China. Now, producer/advisor for Geng Jun, Wang Jing, Yang Pingdao, Yang Yishu's feature fictions and Shen Xiaomin's documentary.