Jay Rosenblatt

Jay Rosenblatt is an internationally recognized artist and an Academy Award® nominated filmmaker who has completed over thirty films. His work explores our emotional and psychological cores. They are personal in their content yet universal in their appeal. Jay’s films have received over 100 awards and have screened throughout the world. A selection of his films had theatrical runs at the Film Forum in New York and at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He is currently the Program Director of the Jewish Film Institute.

tooth

tooth is an artworker and anarchist, living in California. They are involved in the process termed arc. arc operates as a collective entity which seeks to work outside of a framework that privileges the solitary authorship of objects as a point of artistic creation and finitude, looking instead to a process of intersubjective communal encounter as a locus from which the work generates. As conductive vessels, a configuration of material elements is used to initiate this process, including (but not limited to): photochemical film, performance, sound & light installation, written language, & time-based sculpture. arc work has been presented around the world, including: The Lab, Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, International Film Festival Rotterdam, among others.

Erick Oh

Erick Oh is a Korean filmmaker/artist based in California, USA. His films have been introduced and awarded at numerous film festivals including Academy Awards, Annie Awards, Annecy Animation Festival, Animafest Zagreb, and more. With his background in fine art in Seoul National University, Korea and film at UCLA, USA, Erick became an animator at Pixar Animation Studios from 2010 to 2016. Then Erick joined Tonko House with his fellow former Pixar artists and directed PIG: The Dam Keeper Poems (2017) which won the Crystal Award at Annecy Animation Festival 2018. Erick is currently working on a variety of projects with his partners in film/animation, VR/AR industry and also contemporary art scene in US and South Korea.

Donghyun Kim

Donghyun Kim is the festival director of the Seoul Independent Film Festival (SIFF). In order to bring new independent filmmakers to light, she remains active in various fields. Kim has distributed and marketed several independent films that were screened at SIFF. Beginning with the documentary Jam Docu GangJeong (2011), she has gone on to produce films including Cinema with You (2017), A Midday Picnic (2018), and Citizen Pane (2022). Currently, she teaches independent film studies at the Korea National University of Arts’ School of Film, TV and Multimedia, as well as at the Yonsei University Graduate School of Communication and Arts. Kim has also been one of the nine Korean Film Council’s (KOFIC) committee members since 2022.

Caroline Maleville

Caroline Maleville is graduated from University Paris 8 and La Femis with Master degrees. After various experiences in distribution and film institutions, she joined the French Cinematheque in 2005. As programming manager since 2009, she has been regularly organizing events dedicated to contemporary innovative filmmaking. Beyond her collaborations with the Locarno Film Festival, the FEMA (the Festival La Rochelle Cinema) and the Entrevues Belfort Film Festival, she is a member of several script reading committees all over France and for Arte France Cinema. Since 2023 she is a part of the selection committee of the Director’s Fortnight in Cannes.

Jessica Eskelin

Jessica Eskelin is the Programming Manager for the Palm Springs International Film Society, where she oversees festival curation for the organization's two annual festivals, PSIFF and ShortFest, as well as the film society's year-round events. Eskelin previously managed programming for the Overlook Film Festival, a New Orleans based celebration of all things horror, and participated as a juror at the Philadelphia Film Festival.

Santanu Ganguly

Santanu Ganguly, a New Delhi, India based Film Festival Curator, Filmmaker, Producer and Film Critic, has been working in the fields for the last 22 years. He was working with the Osian’s-Cinefan Festival of Asian and Arab Cinema, International Film Festival of India and also curating rare Language Indian Films for KIFF. He has also participated as a NETPAC Jury member in KIFF, and Jury in the Bengaluru International Film Festival, Vatavaran Film Festival and Prakriti Film Festival in India. He has curated for Chungmuro Film Festival, Rafi Peer International Film Festival and Slik Road International Film Festival.

Eunhee Kim

Eunhee Kim is a curator and filmmaker. She has worked as a curator specializing in artist film and moving images at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea. She joined the curatorial team at MMCA in 2014 as a curator with the Cinema program, the MMCA Film and Video programs. Major exhibitions and screenings include individual exhibitions and retrospectives by Philippe Garrel (2015), Jonas Mekas (2017) and Harun Farocki (2018), Principle of Uncertainty (2017), Dear Cinema series (2018-2019) and the biennial program Asian Film and Video Art Forum. Currently, she is working as an independent curator in the field of film production and modern moving images.

Francois Serre

Francois Serre is a Courant3D Festival film director and “New technologies/New storytelling” curator for the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival and INTERFILM - International Short Film Festival Berlin. He is a specialized producer and teacher in new media and also short films and documentary film director, He owns a master's degree in signal processing, documentary directing and sociology. Sound teacher in BTS Audiovisuel at Lycee de L'image et du Son d’Angouleme(LISA). On a regular basis, He carries out training missions in cinema schools in the USA, Africa and Asia.

Chanik Lim

Chanik Lim, who was born on Jeju Island, studied film production at the School of Film, TV, and Multimedia at Korea National University of Arts. In 2011, he directed Officer of The Year, for which he received a Baeksang Arts Award for Best New Director in 2012. He directed the OCN television series Cheo Yong in 2013. His music documentary DGK BAND, which he made in 2016, was invited to the Jecheon International Music & Film Festival. His 2021 documentary Beyond the Sight, for which he was invited to the DMZ International Documentary Film Festival, was released in theaters in November 2022. Lim graduated from the Korean Academy of Film Arts' Global Education program in 2023, making him one of the program's first graduates. His graduation film, Dauren's Wedding, is ready for distribution and submission to film festivals.

Komeil Soheili

Komeil Soheili is an award-winning Iranian director and producer. Following his MA in Cultural Studies and Media at the University of Tehran, He has been focusing on cultural and environmental issues from a sociological perspective. He has collaborated with a number of global networks, such as BBC, National Geographic, CNN, and Business Insider. He has been recognized at numerous film festivals, such as NAFF award in Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival(BIFAN), and Golden Kapok Award (GZDOC). He is the author of an instructive book on cinema, as well as a book about his global ethnographic travels.