Helen Tsang / FilmLAB Producer

Helen gets excited about the artistic landscape and creative storytelling of filmmaking. Her heart beats faster for great books, music and poetry. She dreams about the day where she sees stories like “Pachinko” and “Crying in H mart” hit the silver screen. With her background in several award winning 48H productions, short movie production, theatre, presenting in conferences, on the stages of TedX Amsterdam and the 2023 CinemAsia Film Festival she will help fill in the role of CinemAsia FilmLAB Producer.

 

 

 

 

Terry Tao / FilmLAB Producer

Terry Tao is a Chinese-Dutch filmmaker, raised in The Netherlands with roots in Hong Kong. He has been with CinemAsia since 2015, taking on several roles as volunteer, event photographer and loyal film viewer. Terry has joined FilmLAB as a participant of ScriptLAB (2019) and assisted in FilmLAB productions like Integration 2.0 (2018) and In Lockdown (2020), which has been awarded Best Film during 48 Hour Film Pink Edition in 2020. Now taking on the role as FilmLAB Producer, Terry aims to bring the Dutch-Asian mediamaker community closer together and stimulize collaborations in order to get those Dutch-Asian stories heard.

 

 

 
 

Mac Liu / FilmLAB Coordinator

Mac Liu is born in Beijing, lived in Hong Kong and now based in Amsterdam. She is a former film student now study in Sociology at UvA and used to work for several film festivals and non-profit organisations in different cities. Interested in documentary and multi-media art, with a focus on marginalized groups and migration issues. Mac will help out CinemAsia FilmLAB in 2023 within the role of FilmLAB Coordinator.

 

 
 
 
 
 
 

Doris Yeung / FilmLAB Mentor

Doris Yeung is a Chinese American filmmaker and curator based in Amsterdam since 2002. She was raised in Hong Kong, SAR and San Francisco, and graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, American Film Institute and the Beijing Film Academy with degrees in Asian American Studies and Directing. She has completed several feature films and documentaries such as MOTHERLAND (2009) and TAXI STORIES (2017) and THE UGLY MODEL (2019) and made films in the US, Hong Kong, China and Europe. She is the founder and executive director of CinemAsia Film Festival, the Gateway to Asian films and filmmakers in The Netherlands for the past 18 years. Doris can sometimes be found in the winter on the mountains snowboarding when the weather and her 4-year-old allows it.

 

 
 
 

Jia Zhao / FilmLAB Mentor

Jia Zhao is a Chinese-Dutch film producer based in Amsterdam. She founded MUYI FILM and SILK ROAD FILM SALON in 2012. Coming from Asia and based in Europe, Jia skilfully matches resources from the East and West to nurture and mentor emerging voices and to bring authentic stories to the world in high cinematic quality. In 2021, A Marble Travelogue by Sean Wang is selected for IDFA Frontlight and I’m So Sorry (co-producer) by Zhao Liang for Cannes film festival. Jia joined the leading distribution/production company Off the Fence and is now also Director of Asia responsible for sales and (co-)production. Off the Fence is a 100% subsidiary of ZDF Enterprises.

 

 
 
 
 

Daan Vree / Alumni Network Coordinator

Daan Vree is a writer and filmmaker. He has made two fiction shorts: Adopted (Aangenomen) (2012) en Hangul Blues (2018) in which he has translated his experiences and thoughts on adoption to fiction.  The short films have been screened at film festivals in the Netherlands and abroad, such as Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Eindhoven, Berlijn, Hamburg and New York.

He is a colonial literature graduate from the University of Amsterdam. For his thesis he explored second generation migrant literature in context of the post war decolonisation of the Dutch-Indies. Themes regarding identity, stereotypical representation and life in between two cultures have his special interest.

At the Mediafonds he has finished a course script writing for childrens cinema.  He has also done a several practical filmmaking courses in direction, camera and montage a.o. at Open Studio and Bromet Filmschool.  As a FilmLAB Producer he has produced over 12 short films on Asian diaspora together with Judith Mulder from 2013 to 2017.

Aside from his own enterprises, Daan De Koreaan Creative Productions, he is active for the Communications Study at the Hogeschool Rotterdam, where he gives course in language, storytelling, media and film.

Since 2019 he is active as alumni network coordinator to strengthen FilmLAB’s alumni-network. The goal of the alumni-network is to keep stimulating and inspiring filmmakers to tell authentic stories and to collaborate to realize these stories. He does this by a.o. organising workshops and speed dating events for and together with the alumni. He also established the FilmLAB newsroom, where he and alumni regularly share updates on CinemAsia FilmLAB’s website.
Fun Facts
Favourite films: Air Doll (Hirokazu Kore-eda), The Wayward Cloud (Tsai Ming-Liang), Abel (Alex van Warmerdam)
Favourite Food: bibimbap (비빔밥) and bimi, lots of bimi.