Interview Laura Coppens (Jury)
Laura Coppens is the director and head of the Southeast Asia section as well as the Queer Asia section of ASIAN HOT SHOTS BERLIN, the first festival for Asian independent film and video art in Berlin. She studied cultural anthropology and is currently a PhD candidate in the University Research Priority Program „Asia and Europe“. She is writing her thesis on lesbians in Jakarta. Parallel to her work at university she is producing her own films and holds several jobs for both film festivals and film productions.