The Cambodian auteur briefly resigned as jury head of the #TikTokShortFilm competition after execs from the social media giant intervened in the jury’s selections and even tried to replace some of the winners: 'They need to know that an artistic jury is a jury — not an algorithm.'
But a key piece of the sponsorship program — seemingly designed to give the tie-up an element of cinematic integrity — was the creation of #TikTokShortFilm, an all-new competition for experienced and emerging filmmakers.
to say that he had quit his post after a disagreement with TikTok over the competition’s artistic integrity. According to Panh, TikTok executives repeatedly tried to meddle in the jury’s deliberations and even replaced some of the shorts the jury had selected as winners with alternate titles preferred by TikTok.
Initially, though, Panh proposed a compromise. “I wanted to move forward peacefully and to just celebrate film — and I still believed in the idea of the project,” he says. “So I said, ‘Okay, I’ll accept something I never imagined, but let’s award two best films’ — the one we picked and the one they wanted. We discussed this a lot, but eventually everyone agreed to that.”
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