Mr. Max Tessier – Member of the Jury NETPAC board
Critic and historian – member
Max Tessier is a French film critic and historian, specialised in Japanese and Asian cinemas. He has published numerous articles, in French and English, about Japanese and Asian films, also several interviews. Also some books (in French) on Japanese cinema, like Images du cinema japonais( 1981, re-1990), or YasujiroOzu ( in Anthologie du cinema, 1971). He was a member of the Cannes Film Festival selection committee (1983-2000), and a member of many festival juries , especially in Europe and Asia
(Japan, India, Sri Lanka, the Philippines, etc) and he is a consultant for the Far East Film Festival (FEFF) in Udine (Italy) , for Filipino cinema.