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Producer, Zhao Wei Films
Gary Goh started out his career in the media industry at MTV Asia Networks from 2001 to 2004, handling regional sales for licensing & merchandising for MTV Asia and Nickelodeon channels.
In 2005, Gary joined Zhao Wei Films, a film & media production house helmed by renowned director Eric Khoo. Since then, Gary has collaborated with numerous directors and produced a slate of feature films as well as television commercials and videos.
Gary produced Royston Tan’s award-winning film “4:30” (2005) and his box office hit “881” (2007) which grossed $3.6 mil domestically. He worked with multimedia artist & director Brian Gothong Tan to produce his debut feature “Invisible Children” (2008).
Other films Gary help produced includes Eric Khoo’s Cannes main competition entry film “My Magic” (2008) and his latest animation feature “TATSUMI” (2011). He also produced Boo Junfeng’s Cannes’ Critics Week entry “Sandcastle” (2010).
Under the horror genre label Gorylah Pictures, Gary produced the Indonesian horror-slasher “Macabre” (2009) by The Mo Brothers. He also produced the box office horror hit “23:59” (2011) by Gilbert Chan.
Gary has also produced many television commercials and videos. His projects with the advertising & public relations agencies has seen him produced TVCs for clients from the private and public sectors including Sony Ericsson, Aviva, Volvo, OSIM, McDonald’s, Canon, DHL, Standard Chartered, Far East Organisation, Ministry of Defense, Singapore Tourism Board, Singapore Economic Development Board, the Prime Minister’s Office and many others.
Founder & Creative Director, The Well
Angus is the Creative Director and founder of The Well; a content creation agency that operates across SEA/NA/ANZ. The Well collaborates with creative agencies and brands to develop emotive engaging stories for consumers. Angus also leads The Well's division on capability management, designed to equip brands with the knowledge and strategies to best achieve high impact branded content for digital media.
Prior to this Angus was the Regional Creative Director for the BBC, where he was responsible for launching and developing the BBC Worldwide IPTV brand and its content across both SEA and Asia. Before his move to Asia, Angus was Creative Director at Foxtel Australia where he lead and developed award winning programming content and marketing for many of the Foxtels' channel brands. A graduate of film school and AWARD school in Sydney Australia, with more then 30 international awards across both advertising, broadcast and film, including World Promax, Spikes Asia, One Show, and the Australian Cinematography Awards.
CEO, Endemol Asia
Mr Arjen Van Mierlo has been Chief Executive Officer for Asian Operations at Endemol Asia Ltd since 2009. Before that, he was Executive Director, Head of International Operations and Executive Director Corporate Development and M&A at Endemol Holding B.V. Prior to this, Van Mierlo was Manager Mergers & Acquisitions at ING Bank Netherlands – Corporate Investments from 1997 to 2000 and Senior Consultant at Van Den Boom Groep from 1992 to 1997 respectively. He holds a Master's degree in Business Economics from Tilburg University.
Director / Producer, Woosh Pictures
Phillip started his television career in 1991 and brings with him extensive production, broadcast, creative and management experience from television channels, including HBO Asia (Producer), MTV Asia (Senior Producer) and AXN Asia (Creative Director), winning Promax and BDA awards for its on-air promo campaigns.
In 1998, he produced, co-wrote and directed the feature film adaptation of the Singapore’s local bestselling novel, The Teenage Textbook. The movie was later screened on HBO Asia, the first Singaporean movie to be shown on the channel. The movie theme song, No More Tears which he executive produced, earned The Best Local Song award at the 2001 Singapore Radio Music Awards.
This movie sets precedence on the business aspects of film production when it attracted numerous blue chip sponsors like Pepsi, Starbucks, MTV, and Nokia. Some scenes from the movie eventually spin off into a popular radio show funded by the National Youth Council. Phillip has sat on the Singapore Film Commission Sub Committee on International Co-Production.
Since 2001, he has produced and directed several Singapore TV drama series, including the acclaimed The Pupil.
He founded Woosh Pictures in 2009 and produced the hilarious Singapore and Malaysia feature movie, Homecoming, which grossed more than $3 million. He is currently in production as executive producer, co-writer and director for a Mediacrop Mandarin drama series featuring award winning actors Tay Ping Hui, Rebecca Lim and Kate Pang. The series will telecast in 2013.
He has sat on judging panels at the Asia Television Awards, PROMAX and BDA awards. Phillip holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in (Film Making) from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA and is an Adjunct Faculty with NYU Tisch Asia School of the Arts where he lectures a masters degree class in producing.
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Head Of Jury
Christopher Harrison
Director of Invention, Mindshare Asia Pacific
Chris leads Mindshare’s Invention community across Asia pacific. Invention is Mindshare’s strategic communications planning practice for the networked age and creates media ideas you love to share that drive brand advocacy and business. Chris has also held regional client leadership positions on the Rolex and BP Castrol accounts.
Chris joined Mindshare in October, 2007 to run the Nike business across APAC as well as Mindshare Performance (the agency’s content network). Prior to that, Chris was Managing Director of Spring @ Leo Burnett, the UK’s first branded entertainment agency which he launched in September 2001. The agency pioneered “Heinz Dinner Doctors”, Europe’s first TV series to be inspired, produced, funded and promoted by a brand. During this time Chris also negotiated international strategic partnerships with Endemol and All 3 Media for TV programme development and production, product placement and global exploitation. During this period Chris also worked on P&G’s Herbal Essences business. In 2006 Chris led the agency’s successful appointment to the British government’s prestigious COI Sponsorship roster. In 2005 Chris was recognised as one of “40 under 40” by M&M Europe, 2005. Chris is also a regular contributor to the branded entertainment debate (Wall St Journal, International Herald Tribune, The Times, The Guardian, Edinburgh TV Festival, BBC Radio 4).
In 1997 Chris was a founding partner of Grey Interactive UK and in 1998 launched Grey Interactive TV, the UK’s first interactive TV agency. Chris led the team that delivered Procter & Gamble’s first interactive TV advertising campaign for Pantene in UK and France. Between 1998 and 2001, Chris also led numerous interactive marketing accounts across several categories including: P&G (Pantene, Hugo Boss Fine Fragrances), LloydsTSB, Music Choice, Virgin, Going Places, and Cornhill Insurance. Chris was a founding member of The London Business School’s iDTV Forum and its Future Media Forum, and Interactive Marketing Editor, New TV Strategies.
Chris began his career in magazine publishing eventually becoming Group Editor of Multimedia Magazine in 1994.
Chris is a graduate of London University of Arts and was Student President of Chelsea School of Art. Chris lives in Singapore with his wife Josephine and their three boys; Alfie, Sean and Ted.
Chris is also a member of the Royal Television Society. Chris enjoys songwriting.
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