5th Vancouver Golden Panda International Film Festival Press Conference November 2, 2017

This year has been a year of firsts for me on a great many things.

I had seen a poster in Vancouver on Granville Street , took a picture of it and reached out the festival and was graciously welcomed to the festival. Also for the first time in all of my years doing this blog I was invited to my first ever Press Conference.

Once inside at the Four Season's Hotel I made myself to the room where I was greeted by Xueting Zhao who is the Publicity Communications Manager for the festival outside of the room.

I was treated so kindly by everyone that I met that day which was November 2, 2017.

Left to Right:

Host and Emcce Maria Rincon to her left is Sandy You, executive member of GPIFF Committee, with Elizabeth Ball, Vancouver City Councillor, also Matthew Tang, GPIFF executive director & Jan Walls, president of the Canadian Society for Asian Arts and member of the GPIFF Committee

Here below is a highlight video of some of the conference

There were 1,153 festival entries from 88 countries and upon speaking to Matthew Tang, Executive Director of the festival after the conference. He told me that all the jurors had only a few weeks to watch the films and narrowed it down to 19 Feature films & 33 short films from 25 countries and regions.

The list is as follows:

Led by Jiang Ping, Chinese director, vice chairman and general manager of China Film Co., this year’s GPIFF welcomes established film professionals across the world on board as Festival jurors, including:

Bo Svenson, U.S. actor, producer, director, president and CEO of MagicQuest Entertainment;

Stephen Nemeth, U.S. film producer, president of Rhino Films;

Ng See-Yuen, Chinese film producer, director, founder of Seasonal Films Corporation;

Dennis Hoffman, Canadian VFX veteran, president of Stargate Studios Vancouver;

Jacek Bromski, Polish director, writer, producer, president of Polish Filmmakers Association;

Robert Lundberg, COO of China Lion Film Distribution;

Kôsuke Mukai, Japanese writer, director, cinematographer;

Oleg Uriumtsev, Russian director, producer, writer and actor.

Here -below-is a highlight reel of some of the films that were selected for the festival:

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5th Vancouver Golden Panda International Film Festival Press Conference November 2, 2017

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