Born in 1981, he received his MA from the Graduate Institute of Sound and Image Studies at Tainan National University of the Arts. He is a film critic and a festival organiser specialising in documentary. He used to be the jurors for many international film festivals. Now he serves as programme director of Taiwan International Documentary Festival (TIDF) and the programme advisor of International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA).
is the New Asian Currents program coordinator of the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival (YIDFF), that aims to showcase and bring together emerging filmmakers from across the region.
Ongoing film related works include: FAV (feminist active documentary video festa) that distributes/screens independent films in Japan; video collective Video Juku that works to document and archive testimonials of former “comfort women”; Kyoto-University-based Visual Documentary Project that showcases theme-specific short documentary films across Southeast Asia; and a decade-plus documentary project centering around a Japanese-Filipino family living in Asahi village, Yamagata, which led her to spend a year in Bataan, Philippines (API fellowship 2012-2013). Now she serve as the programme advisor of International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA).
majored in English Literature and Filmmaking at KAFA and University of Paris 8. In 2004 she started doing photography and made short films and documentaries on the daily lives of people in a US military camp town. Her American Alley (2008), a feature-length documentary about foreign women working as entertainers in the US military camp sites, and won Ogawa Shinsuke Prize at the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival. Together with Park Kyoungtae, she directed Tour of Duty (2012), a documentary about Park Insun, a former US military ‘comfort woman’.
Born in 1987. She graduated from the Dance Academy of Minzu University of China in 2008. Since 2010, Mengqi has made nine feature-length documentaries filmed in her father’s village in Hebei Province, known as her ‘self-portrait series’, a decade-long creation between exploring history and illuminating reality, and a film a year, the formation of a unique group of works. Her films have been selected by Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, Cinéma du Réel, Visions du Réel, RIDM etc.
is a Hong Kong film producer and member of the AMPAS Documentary Branch. “Yellowing” won Ogawa Shinsuke Award at Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival. “Lost Coruse” won the Golden Horse Award for Best Documentary; “Blue Island” won the Best International Documentary Feature at Canada’s Hot Docs Documentary Film Festival; “The Sunny Side of the Street” won the Golden Horse Award for Best New Director, Best Actor and Best Original script; “ROOM 404” which enters the 74th Berlinale Forum Expanded” and “Another Home” won the Mecenat Award in Busan International Film Festival (2024)
is an artist and filmmaker based in Bangkok. His multidisciplinary practice spans short films, experimental videos, performance, and video installations, often using moving images and his own body as his primary media. His work engages with narratives, myths, and fragments of history both within and beyond Thai society.
He received a Special Mention from the Singapore International Film Festival (2014), the 23rd Silpa Bhirasri Creative Grant (2024), and most recently, the Grand Prize from the Taoyuan International Art Award (2025) for Red Eagle Sangmorakot: No More Hero In His Story. His work has been presented widely in Thailand and internationally. Notable presentations include 10 Years Thailand at the Cannes Film Festival (2018), and solo exhibitions: Museum of Kirati (2017), Give Us A Little More Time (2020), Red Eagle Sangmorakot: Action Paining (2024), The Golden Snail Series (2025), and I a Pixel, We the People (2025). He has also participated in group exhibitions including Soil and Stones, Souls and Songs (2017), Nation, Narration, Narcosis (2021), Exterior: The Science of Collective Consciousness (2023), Archival Time on Our Retina (2025), and The Shattered Worlds: Micro Narratives from the Ho Chi Minh Trail to the Great Steppe (2025).
Kornpat is an emerging filmmaker who graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from the School of Architecture and Design (SoA+D) at KMUTT and an MA in Filmmaking from London Film School, receiving first-class honors from both institutions.
Kornpat began her career in creative roles in the advertising industry before pursuing film directing studies at London Film School in 2016. As someone who questions everything, she became curious about her own identity and chose to create an observational documentary following the life of Jao Duang Duen, her great-grandmother, which became the foundation for her film “The Lost Princess.”
Her first short film “FERMATA” was screened at the New Media Festival in South Korea and Bangkok Student Short Film Festival in 2010. Her advertising work won two ADMAN Awards in 2013, and her pieces have been selected for screening on NOWNESS Asia.
A columnist interested in cinema and mainstream culture who writes film criticism, articles, and interviews with industry professionals. She served as one of the jury members for the 31st Entertainment Critics Club and received an honorable mention from the Boonlua Debyasuvarn Cultural Fund for her 2024 film criticism article.
Nakorn is a Bangkok-based filmmaker and a film programmer. He has contributed as a selection committee to festivals including AFI Fest, AFI Docs, Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, and Thai Short Film and Video Festival. Nakorn currently serves as the Artistic Director of the Changing Climate, Changing Lives Film Festival, a film festival centered on the theme of climate change.
The independent filmmaker from Songkhla, a quiet coastal province in southern Thailand. He graduated from Chulalongkorn University with a major in film and still photography, and began his career as a director and editor of television documentaries.
In 2015, his short film “FON”—about the secret love between two middle school students—won the Khun Wichitmatra Award at the 19th Thai Short Film and Video Festival and the Grand Prize at the 2015 Young Thai Artist Award. In 2018, he completed “THE SEA RECALLS,” a short documentary about his uncle Krit Saransate’s mysterious death, which won Best Documentary at the 22nd Thai Short Film and Video Festival.
In 2024, he made his feature debut co-directing “BREAKING THE CYCLE,” which follows young politicians campaigning against an authoritarian constitution and igniting a generational movement during Thailand’s recent elections. The film was nominated for Best Documentary at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards.
