The Palm Oil Shorties - would like to thank the following judges for their time and consideration for judging the 2010 Shorties.

Yasmin is a biologist by profession and environmentalist by passion. With a B.Sc in Biology and Religion from Duke, and a M.Sc from University Malaya (Biotechnology), she has been crusading for the environment since 1998. With her vast experiences in environmental field work and reporting (Having worked at a local environmental NGO WWF-Malaysia and a corporate company) as well as her interests in CSR, Yasmin later formed and founded EcoKnights. Yasmin is also a lecturer at Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman and University of Malaya, teaching a course on environmental management and philosophy of the environment to first and second year students. She now manages EcoKnights’.

Raja Mukhriz is a well renowned Director of Photography with direct involvement with many of the local movie productions, high value advertisements and foreign productions from Bollywood & Hollywood. He has also incorporated a production company called Merah Maya Picture in May 2008 to be directly involved in the production of films, advertisements, tv programmes and will also produce an Action Film titled 'RANSAN' which is now in the pre-production stage. Awards won to date includes The Best Cinematographer 2008 for the 21st Malaysian Film Festival.

A former student of Akademi Filem Malaysia, Osman Ali is steadily carving his name as a feature film director. He is versatile, creative and most of all, talented as a storyteller, combining creative elements in storytelling with a very local flavour. Known for his more risque works, such as Bukak Api (a story of transvestites in Kuala Lumpur) and his short film Malaikat di Jendela (An angel on the windowsill), he is able to write and direct his own scripts. The scripts range from comedy, such as Toll Gate Girl, to such serious teenage telemovies such as Surat untuk Bulan and Rumah itu Duniaku. Osman short films received awards at international film festivals in Cannes and Rotterdam. He has written this film based on a short story which won the Best Experimental Film at the Malaysian Video Awards in 2001 and was selected for Director Fortnight at Cannes in 2001.

He is an award winning film director and founder of FriedChillies Media Sdn Bhd. Adly has directed and produced over 100 food episodes including the short food film “Sloppy” which won the Best Supershort Film in New York in 2007. He also co-produced the Foodsters’ Guide, the first local food guide to promote street cuisine with over 4 print run. On a daily basis he helms FriedChillies Media as CEO.