Interview with TEDDY jury member Pecha Lo
Channel: TEDDY AWARD
Date: 2018-02-19

TEDDy TV in conversation with TEDDY jury member Pecha Lo.

Pecha Lo graduated with an MA in Film History and the Visual Media from Birkbeck University in London, where she studied with Laura Mulvey and established a keen interest in film, feminist and gender equality theories. She currently serves as Secretary General of Taiwan Women’s Film Association and is the festival director of the international Women Make Waves Film Festival, Taipei, Taiwan’s third largest film festival and only women film festival. Its Queer section has reached an iconic and influential status and gained massive LGBT audience for the past 24 years. Pecha also lectures in film in community colleges, and is a freelance film critic and an advocate of the LGBT-rights movement in Taiwan. She has previously served on juries for the Seoul International Women’s Film Festival (2014) , Network of Asian Women Film Festival (NAWFF award, 2013-2017) , the International Women’s Film Festival Dortmund | Cologne (2017) and London Feminist Film Festival (2017).