Preliminary Jury
- 葉信萱Hsin-Hsuan Yeh
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Hsin-Hsuan was born in Taiwan. She graduated from RE:Anima, European Joint Master in Animation, as a scholarship holder in 2024. Hsin-Hsuan’s work focuses on the expression of textures and experimental narration in animation. She enjoys things that intrigue her. Her work “Ashes” won the Best Student Animated Short at the 43rd Golden Harvest Awards in Taiwan.
- 黃信瑋Hsin-Wei, Huang
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Huang Hsin-Wei is a native director from Hsinchu, Taiwan. His shortfilm "Sparrow" have won the Silver Award at the 2017 Youth Film Festival. "Noname Square" have been selected for the 2022 Kaohsiung Film Festival and the 2023 Golden Harvest Awards.
- 陳怡聞Chen I-Wen
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I-Wen Aimee Chen, a graduate of the School of Visual Arts in New York, currently resides in New York. She works in motion visual advertising and personal creations. She loves dogs, and her hobby is feeding them. She excels at observing emotions in dogs, discovering different perspectives, and finding unique connections in visual and image storytelling for conveying messages.
- 李季恬Li Ji-Tian
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Graduated from TNUA (Taipei National University of the Arts) with a major in animation, participated in an exchange program at AVU (Academy of Fine Arts in Prague) in 2021, and focused on materials and installations. Upon returning home, I became a full-time art worker, finding my connection with the space I dwell through the mediums of plants, words, ceramics, painting, sound, and performance, while maintaining my creativity.
- 吳若昕Ruo-Hsin Wu
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Ruo-Hsin Wu (b.1993) is a visual artist working in painting, illustration, and hand-drawn animation. She holds a Master’s degree in Visual Communication from the Royal College of Art in the UK and a Bachelor’s degree in Animation from Taipei National University of the Arts. Her work has been showcased in galleries , film festivals and awards around the world. Her recent solo exhibitions include "Gentle Like Water" at Eligere Gallery in South Korea, "Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow" at Villazan Gallery in Spain, "Sunlight, Air and Water" at Cuturi Gallery in Singapore, and "Lizard & Lullaby" at Mizuiro gallery in Taiwan etc. Her visual styles are dreamy yet bittersweet, fluctuating between innocence and grotesque. The childlike appearance of her work has often packaged uncomfortable feelings and potential threats. She links her creative motivation with the psychological concept of "transitional objects" – a soft, huggable item offering psychological comfort to infants in unfamiliar environments—just like how the artist projects her feelings onto each piece of work to adapt to changing realities and mental states.
- 吳承筠Angel Wu
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Angel Wu is a visual artist known for her creative process of drawing, taking photos, recording sound, and collaging them into timelines. Her first film, "drawn undrew draw," was nominated at Annecy Animation Film Festival in 2021. In 2022, she held her first solo exhibition, "What did you see." The second film, "Force times Displacement 工," is set to be released in late 2024. Currently, she is working on a new animation documentary “seen unsaw see."