審査委員長
Cultural Behavior
Dr Kyung Wook Seo is an Associate Professor of Architecture at Northumbria university in Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom. He worked as an architect in South Korea, Malaysia and the USA to design many residential and commercial buildings. As a theorist, he published numerous papers based on his research interests, Housing Form and Culture, Morphological Analysis on Building and Cities, and Environmental Behaviour. Dr Seo was a Principal Researcher for the recently finished project, ‘Development of Structure-Infill Housing for the Low-income Population in Malaysia’ funded by British Council in the UK.
審査員
CIFFT Director
Alexander V. Kammel is President and Owner of Filmservice International, which is Europe’s biggest organizer of corporate film festivals. He is festival director of 3 well known festivals named “Internationale Wirtschaftsfilmtage”, “AutoVision Awards” and “Cannes Corporate Media & TV Awards”. Further he is co-founder and festival director of the Grand Prix CIFFT for the worlds-best tourism films and organizer of the “Staatspreis Wirtschaftsfilm” the State Award for Corporate Films, held every two years on the initiative of the Austrian Ministry for Digital and Economic affairs in Austria.
Film Director
Direct corporate and government film projects such as promotion, TV commercial, documentary in sports, culture and nature world all around Japan.
2020 JWTFF Japan competition Grand Prix award winner. Based in Tokyo Japan.
Cross-Cultural Tourism and DMO Researcher
Che-Jen Su holds a Ph.D. in Business Administration from National Taipei University, Taiwan. He is a Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Restaurant, Hotel and Institutional Management at Fu Jen Catholic University, Taipei, Taiwan. Meanwhile, he is an associate editor of Service Business: An International Journal (SSCI listed), regional editor (Asia) of the Journal of Global Business and Technology (EBSCO listed), chief international editor of the Journal of Morisita Memorial Research, and an editorial member of Communications – Scientific Letters of the University of Zilina (Scopus listed). Professor Su’s international titles include the president of the Euro-Asia Tourism Studies Association, professor of Hanyang University (Seoul, South Korea), chair researcher of Morishita Memorial & Research Foundation (Kyoto, Japan), Fulbright Senior Researcher of the State University of New York (Old Westbury, NY, USA), visiting scholar of the University of Burgundy (Dijon, France), visiting senior fellow of Wakayama University (Wakayama, Japan), visiting scholar of Korea Culture and Tourism Institute (Seoul, South Korea), and visiting scholar of the City University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong, China). His research interests are interpersonal influence in tourist contexts, international tourism management, and cross-cultural tourist behavior.
Filmmaker
Don Falsario II is a Filipino director based in Manila, Philippines.
His career kicked off with a local boutique production house where he started as a video editor. This paved the way for him to explore and master videography, photography, motion graphics and color grading, all of which ultimately led to directing. This versatility proved more than helpful in realizing his vision in telling stories.
His oeuvre is an eclectic mix of current digital films (with strong focus on documentary-based films featuring non-actors, tourism films, among others. He has also worked with both global and local clients including the BBC, the United Nations, Unilever, to name a few.
One of his most acclaimed work, a tourism film for the Tubbataha Reefs in Palawan entitled “Tubbataha: A National Treasure,” competed and won in numerous documentary/tourism film festivals across the globe. The film’s multiple wins landed him a spot as a jury member in two tourism film festivals in Portugal (12th Art&Tur Tourism Film Festival) and Japan (2nd Japan’s World Tourism Film Festival)
Tourism Marketing and Destination Branding
Francisco Dias holds a PhD degree in Tourism Science from the University of Perpignan, France. He is Professor in the Leiria Polytechnic, Diretor of the ART&TUR – International Tourism Film Festival and vice-president of the Centro de Portugal Film Commission. He was the founder and first presidente of EATSA – The Euro-Asia Tourism Studies Association. His is the creator and mistermind of many international projects, such as the newest EATSA Art & Tourism Film Festival, the Favourite Destinations Worldwide research project, the International Conference on Tourism Marketing and Destination Branding. Some of his studies have been published in several leading journals, such as Annals of Tourism Research, British Food Journal, Community Development and European Journal of Tourism Research.
Film Director, Screenwriter
and Producer
Chern grew up in Texas and attended Plano East Senior High School in Plano, Texas, where he started his first web company at age 17. He was an all-state violinist, professional gamer and green belt double gold medalist in the U.S. Taekwondo Junior National Championships. When he was young, he made a three-minute short film that eventually aired on The Best Damn Sports Show Period. He also interned at the ReelFX creative studio (where he got assistance from Corey Snyder on his animated short film Dk9000), and received a scholarship from the Wishful Wings Artist Competition.He then attended and graduated, with honors, from the University of Texas at Arlington in 2006, with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.) in Film/Cinema/Video Studies (summa cum laude), and also graduated with a Masters of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) degree in Film Directing from the Taipei National University of the Arts in 2009.
Creativity and Criticality for Sustainability
Professor, Faculty of Tourism, Wakayama University/Creating Happiness Incubation, Musashino University, Japan. Board of Directors, Global Sustainable Tourism Council. Advisor, Global Himalayan Expedition
Creativity and Criticality for Sustainability as a principle, empowering communities through sustainable tourism is her mission. Works include: Kato, K. (2019). Gender and Sustainability – exploring ways of knowing: an ecohumanities perspective, Journal of Sustainable Tourism, Vol. 27(7), 939-956; Kato, K. (2015). Australia’s whaling discourse: global norm, green consciousness and identity, Journal of Australian Studies, Vol. 39 (4), 477-493 (John Barrett Award for Best Paper). Many of her works have led to creative projects: Waiting for the Tide (ABC Radio, https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/world-docos/working-in-water/12240026), Fukushima: In search of New lights (https://www.mirainomatsuri-fukushima.jp/20190806-2021.html), Sound Garden (https://www.uq.edu.au/news/article/2009/01/eco-art-opens-roma-street-parkland). She currently leads a national project to implement Japan Sustainable Tourism Standard for Destinations (Japan Tourism Agency).
Photographer
Born in Tokyo in 1958. Graduated from Nihon University, Faculty of Law, Department of Newspaper. Since his student days, he has photographed local trains in Hokkaido and Tohoku, documentaries, animals and sports. After graduating, he worked for an advertising agency until 1988, when he left the agency after eight years. In 1988, after eight years at the agency, he left to go on a solo motorbike tour of Australia, where he fell in love with the continent and nature photography. He tries not to stay in a hotel, but always camps at the location to be at one with the continent. He was the first Japanese photographer to hold a major exhibition in Australia at the Wilderness Gallery, Australia’s largest photography gallery, and has since held exhibitions around the world. He is currently a Friends of Tasmania Ambassador for the State Government of Tasmania, Australia.In 2008, he represented Japan in the Adobe Photo Adventure, which brought together 17 photographers from around the world. He is an Asahi Pentax registered professional artist and a member of Nikon Professional Services.
Winner of the 2008 Chunichi Shimbun Advertising Award for “Experience Australia“ (Tourism Australia)
Regional brand marketing and tourism marketing
Associate professor of Kobe Shoin Women’s University Specializes in research on regional brand marketing and tourism marketing.
Traffic Big Data Analyst
Naoki Nozu is a lecturer of tourism and transport at Professional College of Arts and Tourism, Toyooka Japan. Since 2020, he directs the tourists’ mobility design in Toyooka Theater Festival as a mobility director. He worked as a transport consultant for Navitime Japan, one of the Japanese major navigation company, in charge of traffic big data management business. As a researcher, he have been analyzed traffic big data to know tourism dynamics, especially about increasing foreign tourists in Japanese rural areas using mobile navigation apps. In 2015 and 2016, his presentations about tourism big data won the grand prizes at annual main conferences in Society for Tourism Informatics in Japan.
the Multicultural Planning & Design
Akihiro Kashima is a professor at the Multicultural Planning & Design Laboratory, Department of Architecture, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Setsunan University in Osaka, Japan. He holds a PhD in planning history from the Kyoto Institute of Technology. He worked as a practicing architect at the Town Hall of Girona, Spain in 1993 and since, his research interests lie in the planning history, especially, of Spanish towns, planning heritage, and civic pride and urban commons, community resources, etc. As a teacher of architectural planning and city planning, Akihiro works on a wide field of projects and methodology rediscovering urban commons and community resources.
Documentary filmmaker, Consultant and Producer
Documentary filmmaker, Consultant and Producer. Through his production company Filmsnòmades, Santi Valldepérez has produced and directed several commercials and documentaries for TV. Santi Valldepérez has played an important role in the execution of Terres Travel Festival – Films & Creativity (Tortosa, Spain), member of CIFFT (International Committee of Tourism Film Festivals) since 2019. Since October 2016 he leads the communication consultancy PVS Media, specializing in communicative support to tourism companies.
Traveling Professor
Yanki is Associate Professor of Management at Faculty of Economics and Business, Universitas Indonesia. She earned MBA degree from University of the Philippines and obtained Master of Science and Doctor in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from Universitas Indonesia. After gaining fifteen years of professional experiences in various industries as Human Resources practitioner, she then decided to take the plunge into the academic world. Since 2010, she has been invited to share her knowledge and disseminate her research findings in Asia and Europe. Her research focuses on leadership, cultural values, human resources management, and cyber behavior among multi-generational employees and travelers.
filmmaker, travel journalist and an avid adventurer
SPOMENKA SARAGA is Zagreb Tourfilm Festival’s Director, a festival seated in Croatia’s capital. Photographer, filmmaker, travel journalist and an avid adventurer, Spomenka travels to the most exotic corners of the world. Her film experience, gained in the famous Jadran Film Studio – referred to at that time as European Hollywood – was won through holding highly responsible financial and production posts and making films together with famous directors, actors and other producers.
After that she founded her own company, BALDUČI FILM, producing many successful documentaries, feature and tourism promotional films. Spomenka has been awarded numerous prizes in Croatian and International Film Festivals and is a Member of the Croatian Association of Film Workers, the Croatian Producers Association and the World Federation of Travel Journalists and Writers.
Member of the Jury at the Deauville Green Awards – France, Baku International Tourism Film Festival – Azerbaijan, ART&TUR Portugal, SILAFEST – Serbia, AMORGOS International Film Festival – Greece, Cappadocia Tourism Film Festival – Turkey, Finisterra Arrábida Film Art & Tourism Festival -Portugal, ITFF Africa – Cape Town, South Africa, JWTFF – Japan, etc.
Co-Direction of ART&TUR International Tourism Film Festival
Mariana Calaça Baptista, studied architecture at the Lusíada University, and carried out her research for 6 years in the DGMEN at the Endangered Heritage Department. It was there that she lived closely the experience of the proximity to the national architectural heritage including the candidacies to UNESCO of Baixa Pombalina in Lisbon and city of Coimbra through University of Coimbra. She knows closely the history and heritage of the country and believes that it is with knowledge, that we are truly special.
During the economic crisis of 2008, she decided to leave Lisbon and went to the countryside to manage a Rural Tourism in Óbidos for 5 years. There she learned the great passion that foreigners have for Portugal (She usually feels that she travelled around the world several times without leaving that single Manor House). She also specialized in ISCTE in Entrepreneurship in Cultural and Landscape Tourism winning an award in entrepreneurship with the project PLAYWEST, a mobile app project that promotes touristic sites. In 2014 she started to work closer to cultural associations and went to the academia again, when she decided to create her own project as www.marianacalacabaptista.pt.
During this new challenge she participated in the production of several projects as a cultural manager and she had the chance to coordinate the Royal Escapade 2017 for the Versailles Foundation in New York, Caldas Creative Tourism at CREATOUR in 2017, Vouzela Raiz in 2019 and CES Summer School in Caldas da Rainha She is Secretary of the Board at Centro Portugal Film Commission since 2021 and she is also a regular contributor to Moondo Magazine https://ilmondonuovo.club/imn2023
To this day she collaborates with several entities and is a consultant in the areas of Heritage, Communication Tourism and Culture having as main challenge the Co-Direction of ART&TUR International Tourism Film Festival, Centro Portugal Film Commission and the coordination of by.Vouzela a social collaborative upcycling initiative, based on the textile industry of Vouzela, Viseu, Portugal.
Lecturer