부산국제단편영화제

Shin Suwon

Shin Suwon's feature directorial debut, Shin Suwon’s feature directorial debut, the self-produced independent film Passerby #3 (2010), was released in 2010: it won the Best Asian-Middle Eastern Film Award at the 2010 Tokyo International Film Festival. Her next project was the short film Circle Line (2012), invited to participate in the 2012 Cannes Critic’s Week and won the Canal+ Award for short film. Pluto (2013), which explores the competitive nature of the Korean education system, premiered at the 2012 Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) and later won a special mention at the Generation 14plus Section of the 2013 Berlin International Film Festival. In 2015, her third feature Madonna (2015) was invited to screen in the Un Certain Regard section of the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, and her fourth feature Glass Garden (2017) was the opening film of the 2017 BIFF.

Huang Haojie

Curator at the Kaohsiung Film Festival since 2007, Huang Haojie became the deputy director of the Kaohsiung Film Archive in 2017 where he’s responsible for planning the International Short Film Competition in Kaohsiung Film Festival as well as the “Kaohsiung Shorts” and “Kaohsiung VR Film Lab” subsidy project.

Mark Olexa

Mark Olexa is a Swiss director and producer. He is one of the two founders of “DOK MOBILE”, a film production company based in Fribourg, Switzerland. Together with Francesca Scalisi, he directed and produced Moriom (2015) and Black Line (2017), two short films which received many awards and were screened in more than 60 festivals around the world. His mid-length documentary Half-life in Fukushima (2016) premiered at Visions du R?el and Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival. In 2019, together with Francesca, he produced his first feature length Digitalkarma (2019).

Delphine Jeanneret

Delphine Jeanneret is a film curator at Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur and deputy head of the cinema department at Geneva School of Art and Design, HEAD - Geneve, where she teaches festival politics and film curating. She has curated in several film festivals and exhibition spaces, also part of the Open Doors selection committee for South East Asian film projects at Locarno Film Festival. In 2014, she launched the Festival Cin?ma Jeune Public in Lausanne, curating independent and experimental films. She is a member of the Swiss Film Academy and holds an MA in History of art and English & American literature, as well as a DAS in cultural management.

Yoon Gaeun

Yoon Gaeun’s short films, The Taste of Salvia (2009), Proof (2010) and Guest (2011), made while studying at the Korea National University of Arts, received attention for her sensitive direction. Guest (2011) won Grand Prix in International Competition at the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival in 2012. Her first feature The World of Us (2015) is a story about two elementary school girls suffering from the selfishness of their peers and the indifference of adults. In this film, her “soft leadership” shines especially as an excellent communicator with child actors and actresses.

Emilie Poirier

Emilie Poirier’s current practice revolves around art history/cultural studies, film festival curating and how the two intersect and interact. She is a curator of the short film programming at the Festival du Nouveau Cinema (FNC) for the national competition. She is currently writing her master thesis in Art History at Universit? de Montr?al, where her academic research examines collaborations between pop culture, contemporary art and the blurred boundaries between different types of cultural production. Poirier holds a BA in political science (international relations) from UQAM (2010) and a certificate in art history from Universit? de Montreal (2014).

Ashley Ratnavibhushana

Ashley Ratnavibhushana is a journalist, author, film critic and film society activist. He is the Founding Editor of the journal Cinesith, the Director of the Asian Film Centre (AFC) in Sri Lanka and the foremost interpreter of Sri Lankan cinema to the outside world, having co-authored or co-edited publications such as Profiling Sri Lankan Cinema (2000) and An Incomplete Sentence - The Cinema of Dharmasena Pathiraja (2009). Presently Board Member and Jury Coordinator of the Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema (NETPAC), he is also the President of the Sri Lanka Film Critics’ Forum and the Sri Lanka Federation of Film Societies, and a consultant to several international film festivals (Moscow, Bangaluru, Cinemalaya).

Nishitani Kaoru

Nishitani Kaoru is Japanese Film critic, theorist and historian about Asian Film. He established the Fukuoka Independent Film Festival in 2009 and is a programming member of Fukuoka City Public Library Movie Hall Cinela and Focus on Asia Fukuoka International Film Festival. He produced A Suspended Moment (2010), A tale of Heaven (2011), Fukuoka (2019) and Tenjin Apichatpong Project (TAP).

Jero Yun

Born in Busan, Yun Jero studied arts, photography and film in France. In 2011, his short Promise (2011) won Grand Prix at the Asiana International Short Film Festival. His documentary Madam B. (2016), a Korea/France co-production, was awarded Best Documentary at the 2016 Moscow International Film Festival and invited to numerous festivals including Cannes’ ACID 2016. His latest short Hitchhiker (2016) was selected to the 2016 Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes, the 2017 Prague Short Film Festival and many other film festivals: it even earned him Best Director at the 2017 Kyiv International Short Film Festival. His first feature Beautiful Days (2018) was the opening film of the 2018 Busan International Film Festival.

Justine Yi-Chieh Huang

Competition Manager
Kaohsiung Film Archive/Kaohsiung Film Festival

Aditya Ahmad

Filmmaker

Kang Byunghwa

Scriptwriter

Kim Kiman

Film Critic

Kim Daehwang

Filmmaker

Kim Sejin

Film Critic