Kim Eungsu

Kim Eungsu was born in Chungju in 1966 and majored in psychology at Seoul National University. After making his debut in 1996 with the feature film Time Lasts, he made several feature films. Starting with Heavenly Path in 2006, he introduced a style that crosses the border between fiction and documentary, and after Without Father directed in 2012, The Journey to OKJU (2016), Oh, Love (2018), The Real (2018), Mountain Lily (2018), Death of Narcissus (2019), and other works are experimenting with the forms of essay film, video art and documentary. This change in genre is an expression of director Kim Eungsu's personal curiosity, and shows his natural process of finding answers as to what film is.

Joao Paulo Miranda Maria

Joao Paulo Miranda was born on the inland side of Sao Paulo state in 1982. He graduated with a degree in Cinema in 2004 from Estacio de Sa College (Rio de Janeiro). He holds a Master’s degree in Multimedia from the University of Campinas. A professor at the Methodist University of Piracicaba (SP), he is also a member of the Brazilian Association of Cinematography and the founder and coordinator of the research and film practice group Kino-olho. He has directed several short films, including Ida do Diablo (2014), Command Action (2015), The Girl who Danced with the Devil (2016), and Ant Killers (2017).

Chun Jinsu

Chun Jinsu was born in Seoul in 1964 and graduated from the Department of Philosophy at Korea University. He majored in Directing at the Graduate School of Film of Dongguk University. Afterwards, he majored in Documentary Films at Universite Paris 8 in France. He delivered lectures at Korea University, Kyung Hee University, and Korea National University of Arts. From 2000 to 2016, he introduced original sound track and classical music on KBS and MBC FM. Starting as a master-class programmer at the Jeonju International Film Festival in 2005, he worked as a programmer at the Jecheon International Music & Film Festival from 2006 to 2019, and is currently a programmer at the Jeonju International Film Festival.

Anne Gaschutz

Anne Gaschutz, festival organizer and programmer, grew up in Dresden, Germany before she moved to England straight after school and later studied Film in Wales. Upon returning to Dresden she worked in film production at the Dresden-based company filoufilm and later as a production assistant and production manager on numerous short film projects. She has been part of the selection committee for the International Competition of FILMFEST DRESDEN since 2013 and is also responsible for the platform Visegrad in Short(s). In July 2020 she became the festival's co-director.

Enrico Vannucci

Enrico Vannucci works as short film advisor at Venice Film Festival and as short film programmer at Torino Short Film Market. He has been working in film festival programming teams since 2010. He has also written essays regarding the short and feature film festival ecosystem. Moreover, as a journalist he has been covering major film festivals since 2009.

Hong Seungwan

Hong Seungwan majored in filmmaking at the School of Film, TV & Multimedia at Korean National University of Arts. He directed the short films Like a Movie (2004) and White Moon (2007). His Family Picnic (2006) was selected for competition at the 2006 Busan Asia Short Film Festival and the 2006 Mise-en-scene Short Film Festival. He participated in the adaptation of A Man Who Was Superman (2008). His feature debut, Juror 8 (2019), is based on a true story about a jury trial.

Park Inho

Park Inho is a film critic based in Busan. She has lectured variously on writing articles about film and writing scenarios for ordinary citizens, and has been explaining classic films at the Busan Cinema Center. She has contributed to film critics such as 『Critic b』 and 『FILO』, and is currently president of the Busan Film Critics Association.

Shin Dongseok

Shin Dongseok graduated from the Korean National University of Arts, majoring in filmmaking. His short films, Stirring Ripple (2005) and Gahee & B.H. (2006), were invited to the Jeonju International Film Festival and Mise-en-scene Short Film Festival. A Stirring Ripple won the Excellence Award for Best Picture at Busan Asian Short Film Festival and Gahee & B.H. won the Best Picture Award and the Best Cinematography Award at Mise-en-scene Short Film Festival. His first feature film Last Child (2017) won the FIPRESCI Award at Busan International Film Festival, Best Feature Film Award at Seoul Independent Film Festival, among many others.

Ranjanee Ratnavibhushana

Ranjanee Ratnavibhushana is a film critic, author, film scriptwriter and film society activist. She is the general secretary of the Asian Film Centre, Sri Lanka and advisory council member of Network for the Promotion of Asia Pacific Cinema (NETPAC). Also she is an author of The Cinema of Adoor Gopalakrishnan and series editor of Film Annual Sri Lanka. She has worked on numerous special film events and has served on many local and international film juries.

Roh Chulhwan

Roh Chulhwan is a professor of Drama and Film at Inha University. He got his Master’s degree in the Department of Theater and Film Studies at Hanyang University, then studied in Paris at ESRA Film School and at Universite Paris 8 (ESTA, Master’s, Doctorate). He has been a senior researcher at the Korean Film Director Association and Sungkyunkwan University's Transmedia Research Institute, and a professor at the Busan Asian Film School (AFiS). He is a representative of the cultural group Symbol, a consultant for the EU-Korea Committee on Cultural Cooperation, and a member of the Content Dispute Resolution Committee. In addition to his activities with videos, movies and performances, his major research fields are the analysis of visual narrative, movies/videos, and industry policies.

KIM Sejin

KIM Sejin studied Korean literature and film, and has been working on scenario consulting and storytelling. After completing an MA in Film Studies at Hanyang University, she went on to a Ph.D course at the same university and researched government-directed films of the 1970s Korean film industry. She has been lecturing about scenarios, film direction and film studies, and writing columns. She has also participated in the Jeonju IFF and the Busan ISFF. She is currently a programmer at Ulju Mountain Film Festival.