FilmLight Reveals Colour Awards Jury Members With Park Chan-wook as Guest of Honor
FilmLight has revealed the first set of judges for this year’s FilmLight Colour Awards, with South Korean film director, screenwriter and producer, Park Chan-wook as the jury guest of honor.
Talented judges for the awards, which will be presented at EnergaCamerimage in November, also include Company 3 founder and CEO Stefan Sonnenfeld; and Adam Newport-Berra, whose cinematography credits include The Studio, The Bear, Euphoria and The Last Black Man in San Francisco.
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Park Chan-wook’s credits include Oldboy, The Handmaiden, and Decision to Leave. "It’s a privilege to be Guest of Honor at this year’s awards,” he says. “Color is not just a visual element. It carries stories, characteristics, ideas, and even musical elements like harmony, counterpoint, rhythm and tone. It can also create the illusion of touch or smell.”
The jury will include South Korean cinematographer Kim Ji-yong, whose credits range from Park Chan-wook’s Decision to Leave to Netflix’s Squid Game; Bojana Andrić, SAS, vp of the Serbian Society of Cinematographers, whose work includes feature films such as Sweet Sorrow and TV such as Trail of the Beast; and Sylvester Fonseca, ISC, whose work includes Amar Singh Chamkila, Kennedy and Island City.
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Cinematographers joining the Color Awards jury also include Callan Green, ACS, NZCS, whose credits include Nobody 2, The Beekeeper 2, and Netflix’s The Gentlemen; Petra Korner, AAC, whose credits include HBO’s His Dark Materials, Netflix’s Shadow and Bone and Wes Craven’s My Soul To Take; and Frida Marzouk, AFC, whose international trajectory from France to the U.S. and across North Africa and the Middle East includes narrative and documentary films.
The jury will also include Douglas Dutton, who won a 2024 FilmLight Color Award in the Emerging Talent category for his work on the Baltic Harmonical Diffraction commercial; and Nadia Khairat Gomez, a 2024 FilmLight Color Award recipient in the music video category for Brodka x Igo – Myślę sobie Ż.
The international rosters of colorists on the jury include Philip Hambi of London’s Absolute, who has worked on advertising for Nike, Samsung and BMW; Harbor’s Andrea Leigh, whose credits include Elysium, Nightbitch and Piece by Piece; and Fady Melek, whose credits include official FIFA World Cup music video clips, such as Dreamers, performed by Jung Kook of BTS, and more than 30 features.
Now in its fifth year, the FilmLight Color Awards recognize color grading in six categories: theatrical feature, television series/episodic, commercial, music video, emerging talent, and spotlight. Entries will be accepted through July 31 and a shortlist will be announced in the Fall, prior to the winners presentation at Camerimage.
