Martijn te Pas

From 2000 until 2019, Martijn te Pas worked at IDFA as a senior programmer. He was also an advisor for the IDFA Bertha Fund and read projects for the IDFA Forum. Martijn was a documentary advisor of the Dutch Media Fund between 2007 and 2013. He recently moved from Amsterdam to Stockholm and started e u R O P E doconsultancy. In 2020 he was a Guest Documentary Programmer at Nordisk Panorama. Currently he works as a festival advisor and programmer for MIRAGE in Oslo as well as a program advisor of Sheffield DocFest. Martijn is an EAVE and Sources 2 alumnus, occasionally teaches documentary film and writes for Business Doc Europe.

 

Taiki Sakpisit

Taiki Sakpisit is a Thai filmmaker and visual artist. He uses the techniques and history of cinema to unpack Thailand’s troubled past, using those to embed a resounding but subtly expressed political commitment in his experimental films. His works explore the underlying tensions and conflicts and the sense of anticipation in contemporary Thailand through precise and sensorially overwhelming audio-visual assemblage using a wide range of sounds and images. His feature film The Edge of Daybreak (2021) premiered at IFFR in the Tiger Awards Competition and won the FIPRESCI award. He is currently an artist-in-residence at the Rijksakademie.

 

Suzanne van Voorst

Suzanne van Voorst has worked in several capacities within the Dutch film industry. She was an executive producer for the film collective Amsterdams Stadsjournaal and its successor, Yuca Film. In 1996, Suzanne started her own production company of documentaries and fiction features. She was an advisor to the Dutch Film Fund, a member of the Dutch Art Council, as well as a board member of several film organisations. From 2006, she worked as a creative producer for IDTVDocs. In 2015, she became a documentary consultant for the Netherlands Film Fund. Since she retired in 2021, she has been active as a freelance documentary advisor.