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Born in China. After graduating from a university in Japan, Cui joined Fuji Television, the largest commercial broadcaster in Japan. At Fuji TV, Cui worked at the News department as a reporter and covered numerous national issues and news for 12 years. Cui took on a new position in the International Department last year. Since then she has been immersing herself in the field of co-production which she finds very exciting and rewarding. Blessed with many encounters with the industry’s experts and professionals at the international documentary festivals and with her Chinese-language ability, Cui recently completed a documentary co-production with a Taiwanese partner. The program was aired just this past summer. She hopes to meet more new friends and continue working on more international co-production projects.

Claire Aguilar is Executive Content Advisor at the Independent Television Service (ITVS), which funds, promotes and distributes independently produced programming to public media. She advises on content strategy and recommendations and oversees international documentary funding. She has commissioned programming from the global community of independent producers and is curator of Independent Lens, the PBS prime-time series of independently produced programming. Claire has served as programming consultant and panelist for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the Rockefeller Foundation, the NEA, the Pew Fellowships in the Arts and many other media and funding organizations. She has led and participated in film juries for IDFA, Sheffield Doc/Fest, Silverdocs and Visions du R_©el. A second-generation Filipina American, she holds a Bachelor of Arts in Communications Studies and a Master of Arts in Film and Television Studies from UCLA. She serves on the boards of Women Make Movies, STEPS International and the EURODOC Steering Committee.

Carol Hirschfeld has worked in the NZ media industry for 28 years. She began in radio, had a brief stint in newspapers and then moved to television, working as a reporter, director, producer and presenter at TVNZ and TV3. For seven years she co-presented the prime time news and subsequently with her former co-host John Campbell, launched the nightly current affairs show, Campbell Live. For the past 4 years she has held a management position at Maori Television where she is currently General Manager Production.

Mr. Haibo Huang received his education at Communication University of China, Waseda University Japan, Hong Kong University of Science in the field of journalism, film studies and management. He joined Phoenix TV in 2002 after serving China Central Television for several years. With more than 20 years experience in the field of journalism and television industry, he participates in many of the productions; schemes and supervising of feature programs and major documentaries. He himself is also anchoring several current affairs shows and documentary TV columns and sometimes appears at news reporting fronts. Proficient in Chinese, English and Japanese. He is now serving as the Deputy Chief Editor of the Chinese Channel of Phoenix Satellite Television.

Mr. Haibo Huang would like to meet with delegates who have programs that relate to the Phoenix Chinese Channel program sphere.

John worked for 10 years in the UK series/exec producing a range of factual programming across a range of genres for Channel 4 and BBC2. His career in the UK included the ground breaking Channel 4 series Eurotrash. He has been in Australia for 10 years, and has produced everything from documentary, to popular culture series (SBS and Discovery).  Most recently, he worked at Becker Entertainment as Head of Development and Executive Producer. He has been SBS Commissioning Editor of Documentaries since July 2008, and commissions include Who Do You think You Are? (Series 3 and 4), The Tall Man and Immigration Nation – The Secret History of Us. Now Head of Documentaries, John is responsible for the whole documentary slate, and in particular looks after indigenous and contemporary documentaries including Once Upon A Time In Cabramatta and Go Back To Where You Came From.

Before moving to Australia to take up his role as commissioning editor for SBS, Joseph developed, directed and produced high end, prime time documentaries for most of the major broadcasters in Britain. He also set up his own production company. In Australia his credits as a commissioning editor include, “Dirty Business: How Mining Made Australia” and “Who Do You Think You Are.” He has a series of new international co pro’s in production, in both science and history. 

Dave Braithwaite is a digital-content specialist, with experience at some of Australia’s top publishers. 

He joined SBS in 2010 as Executive Producer, News & Current Affairs Online, before moving to SBS Online as Managing Editor. 

Dave previously worked as a cross-platform journalist for the Sydney Morning Herald, and as Online News Editor for The Age. 

Julian works across Programming, Acquisitions and Sales at TVF International, covering Australia, New Zealand and Asia on the producer side, and China on the broadcaster side of the business. During his time at TVF, Julian has guided the development and production of a number of high profile programmes from across the world and sealed numerous deals with top Chinese broadcasters. He speaks French and Mandarin, and is at AIDC looking for - high quality factual programming and formats of all genres for worldwide distribution rights, with some territory exclusions allowed.