Final Jury
CHO Sungwon
Director Cho Sungwon graduated from the Department of Physics at Kyunghee University and built a career in the film business department in Geumgang group. Afterward he founded SIZ Entertainment Co., Ltd. and won Grand Prix in Annecy International Animation Film Festival for My Beautiful Girl, Mari (2002). He produced Springtime (2004), Hwang Jin Yi (2007), and I Saw The Devil (2010). He also served as the director of the Korean Academy of Film Arts.
KIM Donghyun
Kim Donghyun is a leader in the distribution team in Cinema Service Co., Ltd. who distributed films such as Public Enemy (2001), Silmido (2003), Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) and more. He served as a team leader in investment and marketing in Cinema Service, and worked as a director in charge of Investment and distribution at Synergy House Ltd. He became the co-representative of Invent Stone film company and is currently the general manager in film business division in Merry Christmas Ltd.
PARK Hye-eun
Starting career as a reporter for film magazine Screen, she worked as chief editor of Movie Week and Max Movie. Since 2019, she has been the chief editor of the film entertainment media The Screen, creating media that extends the boundaries of the film. In 2021, she is responsible for the global promotion project ‘THE ACTOR IS PRESENT’ of 200 Korean actors.
Preliminary Jury
KANG Kimyung
Kang Kimyung worked as a team leader in CJ CGV Movie Collage for various theater contents projects and founded Loca Film Business Academy. In Megabox Plus M, she invested and distrib-uted THE OUTLAWS (2017) and Anarchist from the colony (2017). She is currently the president of Triple Pictures Inc., distributing successful and substantial films like Beauty Water (2020) and NAILED (2018)
SONG Gyeongwon
Song Gyeongwon is a journalist for the weekly film magazine Cine21 and a film critic. He debuted as a film critic after winning Cine21 Film Critic Award in 2009 and completed his PhD in Film Theory at Dongguk University’s Graduate School of Visual Arts in 2012. He wrote Unknown Masters, Hidden Masterpieces (2015) and Lee Chung-Ho - Cartoonists and Webtoonists Critic Collection (2019) and co-wrote Producer (2019).
SHIM Chanyang
Shim Chanyang wrote and directed Behind the Dark Night (2017) and Da Capo (2019). He won the Special Jury Award in Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival for his short film Minsu Kim in Wonderland (2013). He also won Grand Prize for his first feature film Behind the Dark Night (2017) in Buchon International Fantastic Film Festival. Da Capo (2019) is selected for Opening Film in Jecheon International Music & Film Festival.