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Johnny Ray Huston
Johnny Ray Huston is the Arts and Entertainment editor of the San Francisco Bay Guardian, where he also writes about film, music, and visual art. He contributes to Cinema Scope. His recent or current projects include co-curating a kino21 series devoted to the movies of Warren Sonbert, co-curating "Beyond ESPN: An Offbeat Look at the Sports Film" at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and preparing a collage show at [2nd Floor Projects] in San Francisco.
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Noel Vera
After obtaining an MBA from the University of Michigan and serving as an officer of the Bank of the Philippines, Noel Vera submitted an article to the Manila Chronicle in 1994 and has been writing on film ever since. He has contributed to Cinemaya, Cahiers du Cinema, the Hong Kong Film Festival, the Singapore Film Festival and the Cinemanila Film Festival. He curated a program of Filipino films at the 2006 Rotterdam Film Festival, has helped develop and write the screenplay for Tikoy Aguiluz's Rizal in Dapitan (1997), and has written the book Critic After Dark: A Review of Philippine Cinema. Has had no regrets. So far.
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Ikeda Hiroyuki
Ikeda started filmmaking with an 8-mm camera while in university. At the same time he took film classes at the Image Forum Institute of the Moving Image, instructed by teachers such as Nobuhiro Kawanaka and Katsu Kanai, one of the pioneers of Japanese avant-garde film. He was the editor-in-chief for the monthly film magazine Image Forum from
1986 until 1989, and has introduced many experimental films to Asian audiences. From 1990 he has been the Program Director of the Image Forum Film Festival, the only festival dedicated to experimental film in Japan. He's also been a lecturer at the Image Forum Institute of the Moving Image since 1995. |
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