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Festival juries announced
21/5/2005 16:43

Shanghai Daily news

Organizers of the 11th Shanghai TV Festival and 8th Shanghai International Film Festival announced the list of jurors for this year's events, which will both open on June 11.
The seven-member jury panel for the film festival will be headed by Chinese mainland director Wu Tianming, whose film "Old Well" took home the Best Picture, Best Actor and Grand Prize awards at the Second Tokyo International Film Festival in 1987.
Wu will be joined on the panel by Lisa Lu, a Chinese actress who has worked in the United States and played roles in such movies as "The Joy Luck Club," and German director Marc Rothemund, whose film "Sophie Scholl" earned him the Best Director Award at this year's 55th Berlin International Film Festival.
The jury for the TV festival will be headed by Zhao Baogang, a well-known director of Chinese TV programs, and Yang Lan, a famous Chinese TV broadcaster and chairman of Sun Media Holdings Limited.
They will be joined on the panel by Todd Leavitt, president of the US Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, and Lee Kang-hyun, president of a South Korean producers' association.