Mike Figgis burst onto the Hollywood film scene as the director and music director of Internal Affairs(1990), starring Richard Gear. He was nominated for two Academy Awards for Leaving Las Vegas(1996), for which Nicolas Cage won the Academy Award for Best Actor. Currently, he is working on a feature Mother Tongue in Hong Kong and is preparing for Shame.

Seonah Kim is a producer. She is currently an associate professor of Dankook University and Vice chairperson of Korean Film Council. She has worked as a producer on many films, including One fine spring day(2001), Save the green planet!(2003), Rikidosan(2004), VR film Bloodless(2017).

Kim Hong-joon is currently a director of the Korean Film Archive and a professor emeritus at the Korea National University of Arts. He directed A Rosy Life (La Vie en Rose)(1994) and Jungle Story(1996).

Anna Machukh is the Managing Director of the Odessa IFF, the executive director of Ukrainian Film Academy and co-founder of Dzygamdb. In 2011-2016, Anna worked as a director of the marketing dept. at OIFF. In 2017 she served as the director of the OIFF Film Market, and during 2018-2020, she was the director of strategic development of the festival.

Film Director, Director of Jeonju Film Commission. After the splendid directorial debut in 2001 winning BaekSang Arts Awards for Best New Director with I wish I had a wife, Park proved his unique directing ability again with his next film, My Mother The Mermaid(2004) winning Baeksang Arts Awards for Best Director. His films include Bravo my life(2005), Sorry, Thank you(2011), Children of Heaven(2012), and Memories of the Sword(2015), Love, Lies(2016) which has won enthusiastic acclaim for its beautiful portrayal of the era with the 1940s music.

Moon is an actress and director who first rose to stardom through her role in the popular TV series Autumn in My Heart, followed by a critically acclaimed horror film A Tale of Two Sisters. At age 21, she became the youngest recipient of a Grand Prize at the SBS Drama Awards for the TV series Painter of the Wind.

James teaches screenwriting and film production at The New School University in New York City. He earned MFA degree in Film Directing and Screenwriting from Columbia University and has worked on many film productions. His films have received several awards including a nomination for the 35th Student Academy Awards®. He recently published a book titled Script Analysis with Focal Press-Routledge.

Produced The Contact(1997), Joint Security Area(2000), Who Are U?(2002), A Good Lawyer's Wife(2003), Hello, Brother(2004), and Bloody Tie(2006) at Myung Films. She later established BK Pictures and produced Girl Scouts(2008), Go Go 70s(2008), and Big Match(2014). She also took on the role of a director of the board at United Pictures and was involved in the production investment of various films including Jeon Woochi: The Taoist Wizard(2009), and The Man from Nowhere(2010).

Noh Kwangwoo is critics and columist. He got his master degree at the Department of Cinema Studies in New York University and the doctoral degree at the College of Mass Communication and Media Arts, Southern Illinois University. He has contributed his columns to Oh My News, Shindonga, Sisa In, News TOF, Dingadolha, The Hankyoreh, and Daily Segye.

Film & Sound Critic. Received a master's degree for Documentary as Narrative of Film History and a Ph.D for Research on the Direction of Film Sounds and its Appropriation Methods from the Department of Theater & Film at Dongguk University. Teaches film and animation at various universities and is a creator for Studio Cinefocus. Author of The Understanding of Movie Sounds.

A film critic, the member of Association of Korean Film Critics, Distribution for Independent Films' Committee member of Seoul Film Commission, he mostly works with Cine21, Extreme Movie, Korean Film Archive, and Seoul Art Cinema. He co-wrote the books including Bong Joon Ho Code, Horror Films, SF-Films.

Kim Somi is a journalist for Korean film media CINE21 and writes about "faces and places" in cinema every week. While attending Hanyang University, she began her critique as the founding editor of the independent film magazine anno. She was a curator of CGV Art House for five years and currently works on GV, lectures, and interviews on various platforms.

Kim Songhee is Editor-In-Chief of Big Issue Korea and used to work as a reporter for the film magazine CINE21. The Hankyoreh, High Cut, Nylon Korea, 10 Asia, Kakao etc, contributed on-offline media culture articles. She recently published Give Up Hope, And Cheer Up, and co-authored The Ugly Young Man.