Jafar Panahi was president of the international jury at the Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema in 2004. The festival awarded him The Golden Cyclo d'honneur in 2010.
Mohammad Rasoulof was a member of the jury in 2015. The festival programmed almost all their films.
We offer our full support in this new ordeal to these two directors who are recognized internationally as great filmmakers and who are not only prevented from exercising their talent but deprived of their freedom.
My name is Panos Kotzathanasis and I am Greek. Being a fan of Asian cinema and especially of Chinese kung fu and Japanese samurai movies since I was a little kid, I cultivated that love during my adolescence, to extend to the whole of SE Asia.
Starting from my own blog in Greek, I then moved on to write for some of the major publications in Greece, and in a number of websites dealing with (Asian) cinema, such as Taste of Cinema, Hancinema, EasternKicks, Chinese Policy Institute, and of course, Asian Movie Pulse. in which I still continue to contribute.
In the beginning of 2017, I launched my own website, Asian Film Vault, which I merged in 2018 with Asian Movie Pulse, creating the most complete website about the Asian movie industry, as it deals with almost every country from East and South Asia, and definitely all genres.
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