Team

Founder

Doris Yeung

Doris Yeung is a Chinese American filmmaker, curator and producer. She was raised in Hong Kong and San Francisco Bay Area and graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, American Film Institute and Beijing Film Academy with degrees in Asian American Studies. Film and Directing. As a writer/director she has completed 3 feature films; Motherland (2009) Taxi Stories (2017) and The Ugly Model (2019) and has worked in US, Asia and Europe. She is currently making her first Immersive VR work titled Hong Kong Cafe. She is founder and executive director of CinemAsia Film Festival Netherlands one of the longest running dedicated Asian film festivals in Europe.

Managing Director

Yuki Gomez

Yuki Gomez is a Japanese-Spanish art historian, festival and film producer with 13+ years experience in arts management, curation and international relations. She has an impressive track record in the cultural sector in Tokyo, having worked many years alongside renowned artist Takashi Murakami. At the Venice biennial exhibitions of Architecture in 2021 and Art in 2022 she represented the architectural and design studios, artists and institutions from Japan. She has been based in Amsterdam and London since 2017, where she works as a film producer and coordinates festivals and events such as IN-EDIT and now CinemAsia.

Favourite Asian films: The Mourning Forest (2007) Dir. Naomi Kawase, 3-Iron (2004) Dir. Kim Ki-Duk, Aparajito (1956) Dir.Satyajit Ray, Tokyo Story (1953) Dir. Yasujiro Ozu.

Festival producer

Lorraine Masamba

Lorraine Masamba is a freelance creative marketer, producer, and (radio) host. She prefers to give people who feel unheard a spotlight and a mic, is a star in image communication and social media marketing, makes the static move, and ensures the moving doesn’t leave you unmoved. She has done so at Amsterdam Fringe Festival, Read My World, Amsterdam Roots Festival, and Mensen Zeggen Dingen. With a background in Media Communications and Event & Experience Marketing, she knows how to put her own spin on your (online) presence. 

Favourite Asian films: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) Dir. Ang Lee. Parasite (2019) Dir. Bong Joon-ho and Space Sweepers (2021) Dir. Jo Sung-hee.

Creative producer + host

Arnaud Kokosky Deforchaux

Arnaud Kokosky Deforchaux is an event-organizer, danser, dance teacher, choreographer and theater maker. Arnaud is specialized in Indonesian, and specifically Balinese, dance. After his professional education in classical ballet at the Dansacademie in Arnhem (Artez), Arnaud danced in many experimental dance/theater productions, operas and musicals. He specialized in Balinese culture and dance at private institutions as well as the Balinese Arts Academy (STSI) in Den Pasar. Arnaud developed educational projects for children and adults for i.e. Tropenmuseum, Museum Volkenkunde, and the Museum of Civilizations in Ottowa, Canada. Since 2002 Arnaud programs dance, theater, music and film for Tong Tong Fair, the biggest and oldest Indo event in the Netherlands. Additionally, he is responsible for their international relations. Arnaud started working for CinemAsia in 2022 as press officer.

Favourite Aziatische film: Kucumbu tubuh indahku/Memories of My Body (2018) Dir. Garin Nughroho

Film programmer and Filmprogram coordinator

Ron Ma

Film programmer and Filmprogram coordinator

Ron Ma is a programmer, researcher, and program coordinator based between Toronto and Amsterdam. Since 2022, he has been the programmer of the CinemAsia Film Festival, the largest and longest-running pan-Asian film festival in the Netherlands. Besides his role at CinemAsia, he sits on the advisory screening committee of the Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival, and he has worked for festivals such as the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, Singapore International Film Festival, and Planet in Focus International Environmental Film Festival. Ron completed his Research Master’s in Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam. His research is interested in diaspora and migration, postcolonial theory, protest and media, and Hong Kong and Chinese cinema.

Film Programmer

Darunee Terdtoontaveedej

Darunee Terdtoontaveedej (she / they) is a curator and cultural programmer based in The Hague. Formerly trained as an architect and designer, Terdtoontaveedej is interested in the intersection of alternative (his)stories, creative assembly, and cinema. They have programmed at festivals and institutions such as CinemAsia Film Festival (Amsterdam), International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), Sinema Transtopia (Berlin), Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film (Singapore), and Singapore International Film Festival (SGIFF), and have served as jury member of the Teddy Award at the 73rd Berlin International Film Festival and MIX Copenhagen. 

Terdtoontaveedej is currently guest tutor at Design Academy Eindhoven (MA Social Design). Between 2018 and 2023, they were a co-founder and curator at Non Native Native, a cultural platform which looks into the Asian creative landscape in the Netherlands through the lens of outsiders from within.

Favourite Asian Film: The Farewell (2019) Dir. Lulu Wang

Film Programmer

Vincent Hodde

Vincent Hodde developed a love for film from an early age. He likes a diversity of films: mainstream, independent, blockbuster, arthouse, experimental, conventional, classic, modern, ‘lowbrow’, ‘highbrow’, from many different countries and with different genres. Asian cinema in particular is an important part of his life – in addition to his enormous appreciation for the craft, the people and culture he saw represented on screen have helped him in the ‘eternal search’ for his own (bi -cultural) identity. Vincent is involved with film and art as a professional in various ways: as a filmmaker and (fine art) photographer, as an education editor at Eye Film Museum, as a writer of articles, and through his freelance work at various festivals. He is honored to contribute to CinemAsia 2024 as a film programmer.

Marketing + Brand manager

Kin Mok

Kin Mok graduated from Avans Hogeschool with a BA in Design and started working for CinemAsia in 2006, which makes him one of the longest serving team members of the festival. Next to CinemAsia Kin designs for Picl, Rialto, World Cinema Amsterdam, Cultuurschakel, Humans of Film Festival and Network Film Education. He is a digital innovator at the Hogeschool Rotterdam designing digital educational methods. Kin has worked for A-film and Cinekid amongst many other cultural organizations. 

Favourite Asian film: Infernal Affairs (2002) Dir. Andrew Lau, Alan Mak

PR & Community Advisor

Giovanna Chen

Giovanna Chen is a cross-cultural connector with a background in branding and PR, active at the intersection of art and culture, creative sector, food and sport.

Online marketeer

Anouk Rees

Anouk Rees studied Mandarin Chinese in China (one year in Xiamen and one year in Shanghai) and received a bachelor’s degree and master’s degree in Chinese Studies in the Netherlands, including a minor in film studies. Since 2016, she has been working as an online marketeer. She is specialized in online advertising and content marketing for Facebook, LinkedIn, Google, Instagram, and YouTube. At the moment she works for several (film) festivals and brands. Besides her online projects, she follows a 3 years photography course at the Fotoacademie.

Favourite Asian Films: Kungfu Hustle (2004) Dir. Stephen Chow and The Road Home (1999) Dir. Zhang Yimou.

Artistic side program curator

Minhong Yu

Minhong Yu is a curator and visual artist based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She graduated from the Sandberg Instituut and China Central Academy of Fine Arts. Her work is concerned with visibilities and invisibilities relating to social issues in the digital world. It ranges from publications to video clashes which questions the notion of identities and the state of imbalanced power. Living between the two continents, Minhong inhabits two cultures simultaneously, creating a dialogue between them. And being part of the new transnational Asian migrants, Minhong uses video narratives to explore the stories of family issues and memories, pain and healing. It proposes a dialogue between emotions and rationality, duality and non-duality, the wandering and the settlement.

Favourite Asian films: A Man and a Woman (2016) Dir. Lee Yoon-ki;  Balloon (2019) Dir. Pema Tseden; An Elephant Sitting Still (2018) Dir. Hu Bo. 

FilmLAB Producer & Fundraiser

Helen Tsang

Helen Tsang comes from a scientific background. She rolled into film production through one of her friends. With her experience as project manager at TedX and her background in theatre, short film production (for example DE PERFECTE VREEMDELING, PICTURE OF US and HEAT) and acting in music video’s and short movies, she will support the CinemAsia @ home – the online platform of CinemAsia in her role as coordinator.

Favourite Asian films: 2046 (2005), In the Mood for Love (2000) Dir. Wong Kar Wai; Minari (2020) Dir. Lee Isaac Chung; Drive my car (2021) Dir. Ryusuke Hamaguchi.

Location Manager

Nara Dewani

Nara Dewani is a bachelor student at University of Groningen, majoring in Arts, Culture and Media. She has been a film enthusiast since high school. It’s also her passion to gain experience in committees and volunteering in the arts and cultural sector. In CinemAsia 2023, Nara is an intern responsible for TikTok, Indonesian programming and Indonesian community outreach. 

Favourite Asian films: Missing Home (2022) Dir. Bene Dion Rajagukguk; Yuni (2021) Dir. Kamila Andini.

Volunteer coordinator

Lisa Tjen

As Volunteer Coordinator I want our volunteers and guests to have an amazing experience at CinemAsia. In my day job I work as a consultant for a software company. Next to that I co-host the bookclub and podcast “PAC je Boek!” for Pan Asian Collective, we read and discuss books with Asian diasporic themes. 

Favourite Asian Films: Grave of the Fireflies (1988) Dir. Isao Takahata and The Ugly Model (2019) Dir. Doris Yeung. 

VR Coordinator

Mac Liu

Junior Programmer

Jihyun Park

Jihyun (also goes by Gigi) settled in Amsterdam after finishing her MA degree in Heritage Studies at the University of Amsterdam. Her recent practice focuses on widening the colonial lens to the issues that have been neglected in the mainstream discourses, which concerns the still existing power dynamic between the West and the East, the displacement of people, culture, fauna and flora and how that shaped our lives today.

She founded a cultural collective, ‘잔치; Zaanchi’ in 2022 and hosted the first Korean Film Festival in Amsterdam, K-weekender. She is now working as a freelance programmer and project coordinator for cultural institutions including CinemAsia Film Festival, specializing in film programming, event curation, and community building.

Marketing Intern

Julia Kobielska

Julia Kobielska (she/her) is a young and ambitious student from Łódź, Poland. She is now pursuing her Bachelors in Literary and Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam, where her passion for texts outside the canon was sparked. She is interested in postcolonial studies and how different cultures correlate with each other, producing a plethora of rich cultural texts, such as film, literature and art.

Her field of work is the written word, reaching from academic essays and reports, through casual articles or notes about films or paintings, all the way to poetry in her personal notebook. Julia’s perspective has been influenced not only by her diverse studies, but also by her desire to explore the world and enthusiasm in learning new things. Her texts reflect the awareness and recognition of the richness and beauty of (not only Asian) cinema.

Julia’s favorite Asian films include: Us and Them (2018) dir. Rene Liu, Belladonna of Sadness (1973) dir. Eiichi Yamamoto, Paprika (2006) dir. Satoshi Kon, Hidden Letters (2022) dir. Violet Du Feng and Qing Zhao.
Her journey with film took a turn at the screening of Hidden Letters during CinemAsia Film Festival in 2023, when she lost herself in the beauty of Asian cinema.

Junior Programmer, Queer Nongkrong Coordinator

Mai Nguyen

Mai Nguyen brings a diverse academic background in Law, Literary studies and Comparative to their role. They are particularly intrigued by diasporic and posthuman narratives, especially those reflecting everyday resistance. For the first time, Nguyen is programming the Queer Program, showcasing their passion for exploring the myriad forms of connection. This dedication extends to their work as program coördinator for anti-racism grassroot organisation Asian Raisins, where they create community events, and as awareness team lead for KØLT, where they strive to create intentional spaces within Amsterdam’s nightlife scene

Assistant to Managing Director

Sarah De Ruyter

Sarah De Ruyter (she/her) is an interdisciplinary creative professional raised in Bali, Indonesia. Holding a Master’s in Arts & Culture from the University of Amsterdam, Sarah’s expertise extends to project management, intercultural communication and events programming. In her current roles as Office Manager/Assistant to Managing Director at CinemAsia and Fundraising Officer at the Prince Claus Fund for Culture and Development, Sarah draws from her previous experiences as program coordinator within Amsterdam’s education and cultural sectors.

Sarah’s journey has been shaped by living in diverse locales such as Cirebon, Bali, Brussels, Antwerp, and Amsterdam. Fueled by a profound love for (South East) Asian cinema and contemporary art, Sarah, as a person of bi-racial/cultural identity, always adds an anticolonial and intersectional perspective to her work.

Sarah’s favorite Asian films include (in no particular order!) House (1977) dir. Nobuhiko Obayashi, Jakarta Twilight (2010) dir. Salman Aristo, What’s Up with Love (2002) dir. Rudy Soedjarwo, What Time is it There? (2001) dir. Tsai Ming-liang, Ichi the Killer (2001) dir. Takashi Miike.

Location Manager

Yang Wang

Yang Wang, blending Shanghai’s roots with Parisian flair, now lives in Amsterdam. With a solid decade in the arts, culture, and creative sectors, including stints at large-scale cultural festivals, a leading Asian art gallery, an award-winning creative agency, and an innovative cultural heritage enterprise, Yang shines in marketing, communications, and business.

Yang is a prospective PhD candidate in the Netherlands, where she integrates her media project with her academic pursuits. Yang melds her passion for creator/cultural entrepreneurship’s practice and theory, aiming to convert intangible values into tangible goods while balancing commercial, social, and cultural values. Her research also dives into media and film narratives.

A voracious learner, Yang’s educational journey is multidisciplinary, spanning art history, media and business, cultural sociology, film studies, cultural industry management, and Chinese mathematical astronomy. She achieved a BA in Art and Design, an MSc in Marketing, and an MA in Art, Culture & Media.

Marketing intern

Natasha Santosa

Maria Natasha Ambun Santosa, or Tasha in short, is a student from Indonesia. After finishing her Bachelors in Arts and Culture, she is now continuing her Masters in Media and Creative Industries at Erasmus University Rotterdam.

Her interest in the cultural and creative industries mainly focuses on cultural heritage, media tourism, cultural globalization, and media studies, especially in the realm of music and films. She initially joined CinemAsia Film Festival as a volunteer in 2022, and has now been assigned as a social media marketing intern.

Favorite Asian films:

• Sekala Niskala/The Seen and Unseen (2018) Kamila Andini
• Kucumbuh Tubuh Indahku/Memories of My Body (2018) Garin Nugroho
• 27 Steps of May (2018) Ravi L. Bharwani
• Autobiography (2022) Makbul Mubarak

Intern

Phuong Nguyen

Phuong is a bachelor’s student at the University of Amsterdam, majoring in Media and Culture with a focus on film. She works as an all-round intern for the CinemAsia Film Festival 2024, motivated by her love for Asian culture and hoping to join a community where she finds people with similar interests. She also volunteers as an assistant location manager at the International Film Festival Rotterdam. Phuong loves watching movies and has a strong interest in Asian culture, which she explores through her work and studies. She is passionate about connecting with others through cinema and enjoys being involved in the film festival scene.

Hospitality manager

Xuanhong Huang

Xuanhong Huang (he/him) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Amsterdam. He utilizes sculpture, moving image and spatial design to explore identities, bodies, as well as queer joy.