Malaysia
Pre-Jury

Firdaus Nisha Muhammad Faizal is a sustainability facilitator. Her work focuses around curating content and programming activation engagements around environmental empathy towards behavior change. Inspired by people, wildlife, gamification and science communications she actively seeks out projects that allow for disruptive interventions for community-engaged conservation. In 2019, Nisha published RIMBA The Card Game to connect people to 30 Malaysian animals through play. 

Dr. Yap Leng Lee is a senior lecturer in German language with 20 years of experience and currently work at University of Malaya. In 2014, she was awarded the Outstanding Teacher Award by Majlis Amanah Rakyat (MARA). She was a licensed telc-Examiner from 2015-2021 and is presently licensed Ösd-Examiner as well as Chairperson of ÖSD-Malaysia. Learning German language is fun, so do science! Science is for EVERYONE regardless the field of study and SCIENCE should be imparted in each student as it is part of daily life. This knowledge is weighty as it enables students to engage actively in conversations/ discussions/ debates in German language. She wishes to inculcate science in her students and manoeuvres science as hooks in her teaching. 

Suresh Ramasamy is a Science and Chemistry teacher, currently teaching at SMK Medini in Iskandar Puteri, Johor. As a member of the Association of Science, Technology and Innovation (ASTI), he is involved in their programs to promote science and innovation among children throughout the schools in Malaysia. These programs include the National Science Fair for Young Children, Young Inventors Challenge and Critical and Creative Thinking Camps.

Al Jafree Md Yusop began his career as a scriptwriter. He wrote the film Paloh for director Adman Salleh and the stage musical P. Ramlee The Musical for Enfiniti Production. His directing career started with Senandong Malam, a telemovie which he co-directed with Dain Said. He then directed Melur vs Rajawali and Kembara Nak Dara, both telemovies for RTM. He wrote and directed his award winning feature film Mencari Rahmat in 2017.

Hashimi Bin Ismail is a marine environmental conservation activist, an active nature educator, bird photographer and a Malaysian Nature Society’s Terengganu State Education Coordinator. Participates in Science Film Festival since 2014 as Malaysia Essay writing competition judge, Malaysia Pre-jury for SFF 2015 to 2017 and Malaysia representative to SFF regional and interregional workshop held by Goethe Institut Bangkok for three consecutive years (2015-2017) and acts as the SFF 2022 and SFF2023 liaison officer for Terengganu State Education Department.