Began as line producer on The World of Us (2016), and went on to produce The House of Us (2019), More Than Family (2020) and Hail to Hell (2023). Founded Semosi in 2022, an independent production company dedicated to independent art-house cinema, which has since produced Red of Nails (2025) and The World of Love (2025).

YOON Dan-bi is a South Korean filmmaker. Her debut feature Moving On (2019) premiered in the Vision section at the Busan IFF, where it received the NETPAC Award, the KTH Award, the Directors’ Guild of Korea Award, and the Citizen Critics’ Award. The film later won the Bright Future Award at the Rotterdam IFF and screened at the San Sebastian IFF and the Mar del Plata IFF.

JEONG Jae-eun debuted in 2001 with her film, Take Care of My Cat (2001). Set in the city of Incheon, this film deals with the friendship and growth of a group of 20 year-old women, and premiered in numerous locations including the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, and Hong Kong. While continuing to work on fiction films such as If You Were Me (2003), The Aggressives (2005), and Butterfly Sleep (2018), she produced a documentary on architecture: Talking Architect (2011), City: Hall (2013), and Ecology in Concrete (2017), Cats’ Apartment (2022). JEONG is working on archiving multi-dimensional contents, such as the subjects forming the urban environment and space, the experience and memory of the space, and the history of the city, presenting them in the form of movies and exhibitions.

JEE Hyewon is a filmmaker who focuses on character-driven documentaries. Her feature debut, Singing with Angry Bird (2018), gained international recognition at IDFA and Sheffield DocFest. She directed Free Minu (2020), the opening film of the 2018 DMZ International Documentary Film Festival, and Home away from Home (2021), which won the Grand Prize at the 2021 Seoul Independent FF. Her recent work, The Voices (2025), won the Documentary Award at the JEONJU International Film Festival for its poignant portrayal of the Jeju 4·3 Uprising and Massacre through women's perspectives. She continues to explore the intersection of personal narratives and history.

He majored in Film at Chung-Ang University and is currently a professor in the Department of Broadcasting and Entertainment at Paekche Institute of the Arts. He also served as a visiting professor in the Department of Film at Cornell University. Originally a television and film writer, he has written several notable programs including Classic 100, Conversations with Authors, Youth Forever, and Youth March. He also served as the director of Baekam Art Hall, where he organized numerous concerts and stage performances, with a particular focus on adapting films into musical productions. He was the founding secretary-general of the JEONJU International Film Festival and later served as its vice festival director. He currently holds the position of co-festival director of the JEONJU IFF. Through film festival-related projects, he has participated in the production and investment of several films, including Lucky, Apartment, Three Sisters, Somewhere in Between, and The First Lap. International co-investment projects such as Samsara and Direct Action were honored with awards at the Berlinale for two consecutive years.

He founded and served as the general director of Cinemathéque Cine Seoul from 1992 to 1998. In 1995, he co-authored Chronicles of Burning Films and directed The City Without a Bird (1996). He also wrote for EBS's Cinema Paradise as a film writer from 1995 to 2001. Currently, he is the CEO of INDIESTORY INC., an independent film production and distribution company. Under his leadership, INDIESTORY has produced and distributed critically acclaimed films such as Old Partner (2008), Worst Woman (2016), Queen of Walking (2016), Dream Palace (2022), and Lucky, Apartment (2024).

Since 2010, she has made seven feature films, one TV drama special, two broadcast documentaries, and five short films. Her debut feature film, Passerby #3 won the JJ-Star Award at the JEONJU International Film Festival (JEONJU IFF) and the Asian Film Award at the Tokyo International Film Festival. Her short film Circleline (2012) won the Canal+ Award at the Cannes Critics’ Week, while Pluto (2013) received a Special Mention for the Crystal Bear at the Berlinale Madonna (2015) was invited to the Cannes Un Certain Regard section, and Glass Garden (2017) was the opening film of the Busan International Film Festival. Light for the Youth (2020), released during the COVID-19 pandemic, was invited to the Busan and Hong Kong International Film Festivals. Hommage (2022) was screened at various festivals, including the Tokyo International Film Festival and the Tribeca Film Festival, and was featured in the special program, Hommage: SHIN Su-won and Korean Women Directors, at the 23rd JEONJU IFF. Her other works include the tvN drama special Mulbineul (2018) and MBC documentaries Women with a Camera (2011) and A Mother’s Dream (2014).

Executive Producer of JEONJU Project and producer&CEO of a production company BIRDY FILM. He had worked at a production company, YONG FILM, and the Producers Guild of Korea(P.G.K) as a vice president. He has produced a feature film The Target (2014). He has also participated in Mother (2009) as a producer and Snowpiercer (2013), The Beauty Inside (2015) as a co-producer. Recently, he released a feature film The Rebound (2023) as showrunner and is working on a new documentary film with French productions. He’s also CEO and Producer at WCNA(World Contents Network Agency).

Born in Spain, based in Paris, since 2015 she is part of 4A4 Productions, where she has coproduced SIRAT by Oliver Laxe (Cannes Competition 2025), Pepe by Nelson Carlo de Los Santos Arias (Silver Bear Berlinale 2024), Fire Will Come by Oliver Laxe (Jury Prize Cannes Un certain regard 2019) or Foremost By Night by Victor Iriarte (Venice 2023). She is producing Mare's Nest by Ben Rivers, in post-production. She has led workshops at UPF’s Creative Documentary Master, Tabakalera San Sebastián or Harvard Film Study Center. Since 2025 she is also coordinator at FIDLab.

Nicolas Raffin is a French film programmer based in London, currently heading the Cinema Department of the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), which he joined in 2018. In the last few years he has launched major initiatives in response to an ever-changing film exhibition landscape, notably the launch of the ongoing series Off-Circuit, Long Takes and Celluloid Sunday. He is also part of the selection committee for the Villa Medici Film Festival in Rome and has guest lectured at the National Film and Television School, in addition to serving on festival juries.

Starting with the JEONJU IFF program team in 2004, she has been active in film festivals and documentary industry forums, including Busan International Film Festival, JEONJU Project, and Docs Port Incheon. She had worked at the Korean Film Council as a representative of Latin America since 2013 and founded the Buenos Aires Korean Film Festival in Argentina in 2014. She has been working as a programmer for JEONJU IFF since 2019.

She began her career as a programmer at JoongAng Cinema and later became the head of the film company Gooan, opening new possibilities in diversity film distribution and marketing through films such as Let Me In, Calling, and The Fall. As the head of CJ CGV’s Movie Collage, she curated various in-theater programs, including The Chinese Film Festival and The Film Quiz Competition. She established LOCA, Korea’s only film business specialized academy. As an investment and distribution team leader at Megabox Plus M, she contributed to the success of films such as The Outlaws, Anarchist from Colony, Forgotten, Brother, and Little Forest. Currently, as the CEO of the distribution company Triple Pictures, she brings commercially successful and meaningful films to the market, including Beauty Water, Drive My Car, You Will Die in 6 Hours, Greenhouse, Cassiopeia, Nailed, People and Meat, and Hallan.

Festival Director of the Pia Film Festival, founded in 1977 with the mission of discovering and nurturing new filmmaking talent. Since being appointed as the first General Director of PFF in 1992, she has overseen all sections of the festival. Her work has included selecting entries for the PFF Award, a competition for emerging directors; curating numerous retrospectives (such as those of Michael Haneke, Douglas Sirk, Robert Altman, Robert Aldrich, and Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit); and producing feature films through the "PFF Produce" initiative, including Michiyuki - Voices of Time in the international competition in the 27th JEONJU International Film Festival. In addition to supporting filmmakers associated with the Pia Film Festival, she has actively introduced aspiring filmmakers both in Japan and internationally. She has also served as a jury member at more than 20 international film festivals worldwide.

Film Critic, Programme Director of Kaohsiung Film Festival (2023-). Known by the pen name of Ryan, Cheng has published extensively online and in various media outlets. Cheng runs a professional film blog and is the author of “The Love and Death of Taiwan Cinema”(2010) and “Taiwan Cinema in Transition: In Search of True Taiwan Spirit”(2019), as well as the producer of the documentary Flow (2018). Cheng has been on the jury for Taiwan's domestic film fund, as well as Golden Bell and Golden Horse awards.

Founded and served as the general director of Cinemathéque Cine Seoul lasted from 1992 to 1998. He co-authored Chronicles of Burning Films in 1995, directed The City without a Bird (1996) and wrote for EBS’s program Cinema Paradise as a film writer from 1995 to 2001. Currently, he is the CEO of Indiestory Inc., an independent film production and distribution company.

Roberto Cueto is a member of the San Sebastian Film Festival Selection Committee and serves as the festival’s delegate for South Korea. He is a Professor of Media Studies at the Carlos III University in Madrid and has taught numerous courses and seminars at the Madrid Film School (ECAM) and various other Spanish universities. Formerly a film journalist, he has collaborated with the Gijón and Sitges Film Festivals. Cueto has coordinated a wide range of film publications and contributed articles to several collective volumes.

Ed Lejano is the Artistic Director of QCinema International Film Festival since it started 13 years ago. He was recently appointed as the Executive Director of the newly-established Quezon City Screen Commission. Currently a board member of the Directors’ Guild of the Philippines, he has 4 independent features as writer/director. He has served as creative producer for around 10 features and 30 shorts that QCinema has co-produced. He was the former Director of the University of the Philippines Film Institute where he completed his MA in Broadcast Communication. From New York University, he obtained a diploma degree in filmmaking where he also used to reside. As a member of NETPAC, he is currently its Vice-President & he has been a jury in many festivals to include Venice, Busan, Singapore, Tallinn, Vesoul, Jeonju & Hanoi.

After beginning his career as a cinema operations manager, JUNG transitioned into film distribution at Dongsoong Art Center in 2006. In the same year, he joined JINJIN Pictures, where he currently oversees the distribution and acquisition of arthouse and independent films.

She earned a Ph.D. degree from a Japanese university in 2005 with a dissertation on "The Structure of Youxia: Focusing on 1960s Toei Yakuza Films". After returning to Korea in 2007, she joined ATNINE FILM and curated at the Pink Film Festival until 2009, while gaining experience as a programmer. For the past 20 years, she has focused on introducing globally acclaimed films such as The Hunt, Mommy, Nymphomaniac, Leto, Another Round, Dogman, and Two Seasons, Two Strangers and artistically significant documentaries like The Act of Killing, For Sama, Life is Fruity, and Soup and Ideology to Korea. In the Korean market, she has contributed to the diversity of cinema through the investment and distribution of independent and art films such as The World of Us, House of Hummingbird, Maggie, Kim Min-young of the Report Card, An Old Lady, Snowball, The Hill of Secrets, Time to Be Strong, and 3670. Recently, she has also participated in re-releasing timeless masterpieces such as The Sacrifice, Tokyo Story, Crash, and The Last Emperor, rediscovering the value of classic films. She is expecting Korean independent and art films to be released, including Funky Freaky Freaks, HOROOMON, and On the Heights.

She began her career as a programmer at JoongAng Cinema and later became the head of the film company Gooan, opening new possibilities in diversity film distribution and marketing through films such as Let Me In, Calling, and The Fall. As the head of CJ CGV’s Movie Collage, she curated various in-theater programs, including The Chinese Film Festival and The Film Quiz Competition. She established LOCA, Korea’s only film business specialized academy. As an investment and distribution team leader at Megabox Plus M, she contributed to the success of films such as The Outlaws, Anarchist from Colony, Forgotten, Brother, and Little Forest. Currently, as the CEO of the distribution company Triple Pictures, she brings commercially successful and meaningful films to the market, including Beauty Water, Drive My Car, You Will Die in 6 Hours, Greenhouse, Cassiopeia, and Nailed.

Ellen Y. D. Kim, born in Korea in October 1968, is a prominent figure in Asian cinema, known for her roles in film production, festival organizing, and international collaboration. Kim founded Flying Tiger Pictures producing films including Cry Woman which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival's Un Certain Regard in 2001, and Hanaan by Korean Uzbek director Ruslan Pak, which premiered at the Locarno International Film Festival's New Directors' Competition in 2010. Kim worked for Bom Film Production and co-produced Night and Day and Come Rain, Come Shine, collaborating with director Hong Sangsoo and Lee Yoon-ki. She worked for Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival for 12 years as head programmer and program director before she is appointed as the director of ACFM in March, 2024.

Kim Ok-young started as a broadcast documentary writer and has continued creative career across the broadcasting and film industry for nearly 40 years. She was an adjunct professor for Communications & Media at Seoul Women's University and Broadcasting at Korea National University of Arts. In 2010, she founded a documentary production company STORYON and expanded into production herself. Since then, she has been active not only as a film producer but also as a planner presenting vision and a creative producer in charge of story structure and aesthetic design. She has served as a documentary tutor for various programs, and has received multiple writer's and film awards including the Korea Broadcasting Writers Award and the Minister Award from Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, and also received the Order of Cultural Merit. She has produced Crossing Beyond (2018) and Voices (2024), In the Land of Machines (2025), and co-produced Evaporated (2019). The official film of the PyeongChang Winter Olympics, Crossing Beyond is permanently collected at the Olympic Museum after screening through the Busan International Film Festival, the Tokyo International Film Festival and more. Also Voices received the Documentary Award at the JEONJU International Film Festival, along with the Special Mention and Audience Award at the EBS International Documentary Festival.
She is also an author for The Art of Documentary.

In 2003, he had his master graduation project, a feature film EDIT, invited to the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Leipzig International Film Festival, and the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival. Later, Between and Bhikkuni - Buddhist Nuns were invited to the JEONJU International Film Festival and the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, while Our President (2017) became the highest-grossing documentary of its release year. Our President achieved an unprecedented box office success for a documentary in Korea, attracting 1.85 million viewers. He currently serves as the Dean of the Graduate school of Advanced Imaging Science, Multimedia & Film at Chung-Ang University.

After working for the operation manager of cinema outlet, Jung turned his career into film distribution at Dongsoong Art Center in 2006. At the same year, he joined JINJIN Pictures and is currently working for distribution and acquisition of arthouse & independent films.

Ju Hee is actively working as Vice President for ARTNINE, a dedicated art theater, and ATNINE FILM. She earned a Ph.D. degree from a Japanese university in 2005 with a dissertation on “The Structure of Youxia: Focusing on 1960s Toei Yakuza Films”. After returning to Korea in 2007, she joined ATNINE FILM and had curated at the Pink Film Festival until 2009, while gaining experience as a programmer. At ATNINE FILM, she focused to introduce globally acclaimed and artistically significant films and documentaries to Korea, such as Mommy, The Act of Killing, Another Round, and Dogman. In the Korean market, she has contributed to the diversity of cinema through the investment and distribution of independent and art films such as House of Hummingbird, Maggie, Coming to You, I am More, Kim Min-young of the Report Card, and The Hill of Secrets. Recently, she has also participated in re-releasing timeless masterpieces such as The Sacrifice, Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, Melancholia, and Crash, rediscovering the value of classic films. She is expecting Korean independent and art films to be released, including When This Summer is Over, 3670, 1980 Sabuk, and Horoomon.