She graduated with a degree in film directing and have been working as a writer and director. As a writer, she has worked on projects such as Antique, The Truth Beneath, and Herstory. As a director, she has directed multiple short films and the drama series Farming Academy Seasons 1 and 2. She says meeting audiences, whether through writing or video, is always a heart-pounding experience. She likes to continue to touch people's hearts and create small but joyful, interesting, and rich ripples within them.

She majored in sociology at Ewha Womans University and graduated from the School of Film, Korea National University of Arts. After graduation, She started her career as a script editor and in adaption part for the film Once in a Summer, and went on to write screenplays for numerous films and dramas. Her major works include script adaptation for the films Architecture 101, My Love My Bride, and Miss & Mrs. Cops, and screenplay for the film Mood of the Day. Since 2016 till now, she has been teaching screenwriting at the School of Film, Korea National University of Arts. Currently she is working on screenplays for dramas and films.

She adapted the screenplays for Insadong Scandal (2009) and Secretly Greatly (2013). Later, she wrote the screenplay for the film Obsessed (2014) and the Naver audio movie Reverse (2022). Currently, she has been writing film screenplays and TV dramas.

Working as a PD and cameraman at broadcasting companies and independent production companies, he has been planning, filming, and directing news and documentaries. Then he expanded to film and directed the documentary film My Love, Don't Cross That River in 2014. This film recorded 4.8 million tickets sold in theaters in Korea. The film was invited to international film festivals and won numerous awards, including the Grand Prize, Jury Prize, and Audience Award. In 2017, he released Old Marine Boy, a film that depicted the essence of life through the life of a North Korean defector-turned-deep-sea diver, using esthetic underwater photography. In 2021, He had the Netflix original documentary series My Love: Six Stories of True Love released in 190 countries. This series won the Best Episodic Series award at the 2022 International Documentary Association (IDA) in the United States.

PGK’ Member, Filmmaker, Message Film CEO, Chung-ang University Film & Multimedia MFA , Maraton (2005), My Father (2007), The Suspect (2013), Phantom Detective (2016), Hansan: Rising Dragon (2022), Talk to Her (2023), Sugar (post production 2024) Producer. 'Message Film' is a company that currently produces movies and dramas for various platforms, In 2023, he produced Talk to Her, a short film directed by Yoo Ji-tae, and in 2024, he produced Sugar, a feature film starring Choi Ji-woo. He is currently preparing to produce the OTT series The Mole Game and a theatrical feature film Tak-ran.

Born in Jeonju in 1983. Choi started making films in Jeonju with the JEONJU International Film Festival Digital Film Workshop in 2005. Films such as To Understand My Sister , Half-day, Yeonhui-dong, and The Slug have been screened at the JEONJU International Film Festival. Released the feature film The Slug in 2022.

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.

A festival programmer focusing at the East and South-East Asian countries since 2009, Kristina is currently working with the International Film Festival Rotterdam, with a focus on Japan, South Korea, China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan, the Slovak Queer Film Festival, and, occasionally, for the International Short Film Festival BRNO 16. Previously, she was the Programme Manager of Pop Up Film Residency and worked as a festival relations officer and event coordinator at Slovak Film Institute.

Rhee Handae began his career in 2004 at CJ ENM, specializing in film marketing and distribution. In 2010, he joined KT as a content strategy consultant and later became CEO of Sidus in 2012. At Sidus, he produced hits like Tazza 2 (2014), which attracted 4 million admissions, and invested in The Nut Job, which grossed $64 million at the US box office. He has since led successful projects including The Vanished (2018), Tazza 3 (2019), Time to Hunt (2020), Dr. Park’s Clinic (2022), and 6/45 (2022). In 2020, he served as an executive producer for Bloody Moon Fest, a Top 3 grossing film in Vietnam, through a joint venture with director Phan Gia Nhat Linh.

Jacob Wong has been Curator of Programming and Director of HAF (Hong Kong Asia Film Financing Forum) at the Hong Kong IFF for two decades, and is currently Director of the Film Industry Office. He is also a Delegate of the Berlin International Film Festival for Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, and Programme Advisor for the Nara International Film Festival.

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

He is a member of the San Sebastian Festival Selection Committee, and the professor at Carlos III University in Madrid. He was formerly coordinator of the Cinemateca programme at Matadero cultural centre. As well as numerous articles, he coordinated the special volume on "New Korean Cinema" for the magazine Nosferatu and contributed to the publication Seoul Express: The Renovation of Korean Cinema. He was the advisor and editor of Korean Cinema-Arco as part of the ARCO Contemporary Art Fair 2007, and was named Korean Culture Supporter 2016 by the Korean Cultural Centre in Spain.

Born in Italy (on the Adriatic Coast) to a German family, Markus Duffner has resided in Portugal since 2016. Graduated in Cinema, TV, and Multimedia Production from the University of Bologna, and in Foreign Languages and Literatures from the University of Urbino (Italy), he has around 20 years of experience in the film industry, working with festivals like Venice, Rome, and Cannes. Since 2014, he has been with the Locarno Film Festival, where he currently serves as Director of Locarno Pro. Founder of Spamflix, he co-produced the animated documentary King Khat by Uri Marantz, which was selected for the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival in 2023.

Film scholar and critic specializing in Asian Cinema, Japanese language translator, festival programmer at Five Flavours, and editor-in-chief of the Asian Section at Culture.pl. In 2023, Łukasz completed his PhD dissertation on Japanese New Wave Cinema. He has been part of the 2021 and 2023 IFFR Young Critics Programme and Berlinale Talents 2022. His writing has appeared in outlets such as MUBI, Sight & Sound, Senses of Cinema, and various Polish publications.

Thong Kay wee is a cultural worker and moving image curator based in Singapore. He is the Programme Director at the Singapore International Film Festival since 2021. He has served on film festival juries in Jeonju, Taiwan and Yogyakarta, among others. He was previously the Programmes and Outreach Officer at the Asian Film Archive (AFA) from 2014 to 2021. During his tenure at the AFA, he was responsible for establishing the AFA’s regular programmes and presiding over their specialised showcases, including commissions by the National Arts Council of Singapore and the Singapore International Festival of the Arts.

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.