Andrés GARCÍA FRANCO 
Experimental Filmmaker | Educator 

Andrés García Franco graduated with honours from the Mexico National University Film School and holds an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute as a Fulbright Scholar. Since 2010, he has been teaching documentary and experimental filmmaking, screenwriting, and editing. He is currently an academic advisor at ENAC-UNAM and will hold the Mexican Studies Chair at Juniata College in Huntingdon (Pennsylvania, US) in 2027.  

His thesis film, The Invention (2006), won First Prize in the Latin American category at the Kodak Film School Competition during the 60th Cannes Film Festival, and was screened at the 61st Cannes Film Festival Short Film Corner in the World's Best Short Films programme. His documentary, La Historia Negra del Cine Mexicano (2016), received Best Feature Film at the Latin American Studies Association Film Festival, as well as other awards, blending experimental film techniques, personal history, and archival footage.

Teresa KWONG 鄺珮詩 
Producer | Curator 

Teresa Kwong is a producer, promoter, and curator for film and cross-disciplinary arts practices. Previously Programme Director of the Hong Kong Arts Centre, Kwong also led ifva (Independent Short Film and Video Awards, later renamed as Incubator for Film and Visual Media in Asia), a regional platform for nurturing the next generation of media creative talents between 2004 and 2014. As an independent producer in film and new media. Her works have been screened at Berlinale, Venice, San Sebastian, Taipei Golden Horse, and other major international film festivals, and have won major awards: All Shall Be Well (dir. Ray Yeung, 2024) won the Teddy Award at the Berlinale; and her latest producing documentary feature, Palimpsest: The Story of a Name (dir. Mary Stephen, 2025) won Best Documentary and Best Editing at the Taipei Golden Horse Awards.

TAN Siyou 陳思攸 
Director  

Tan Siyou is a New York based filmmaker from Singapore. Her debut feature film, Amoeba (2025), premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and went on to win multiple awards internationally, including Best Youth Film at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards and Best Director at the Hong Kong International Film Festival. Her short films Cold Cut (2023), Strawberry Cheesecake (2021) and Hello Ahma (2019) premiered at festivals including Cannes, Berlin, Toronto, and Locarno. She studied film at Wesleyan University (US) before going on to the American Film Institute's Directing Workshop for Women. She is an alumna of Busan’s Asian Film Academy, Tokyo Talents, and Universal Studios’ Director Initiative.

Maggie LEE 
Curator 

Maggie Lee has curated for many festivals around the world, such as the Tokyo and Vancouver international film festivals. She was Chief Asia Film Critic for American film publications Variety and The Hollywood Reporter. She served on many juries, such as the Taipei Golden Horse Awards and the Jeonju International Film Festival, and frequently mentored filmmaking talents at script and project workshops.

Yov MOOR 
Colourist 

Yov Moor is a renowned colourist, enhancing filmmakers’ artistic vision and their visual expression through colour grading. He has graded more than 200 films, and worked with prominent directors, cinematographers, and producers worldwide, including Wong Kar-wai, Miguel Gomes, Luc Besson, Richard Linklater, Lee Ping-bin, Kurosawa Kiyoshi, Tsai Ming-liang, Tran Anh Hung, Pema Tseden, Phuttiphong Aroonpheng, Audrey Diwan, Midi Z, Cai Shangjun, and many others. Moor’s films frequent prestigious international film festivals, including Cannes, Berlinale, Venice, Toronto, Rotterdam, Busan, Taipei Golden Horse, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Shanghai, and many others. 

Adam WONG 黃修平 
Director | Screenwriter | Producer

While Adam Wong was pursuing his Fine Arts degree at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, he started making short films at the University of Iowa (US) as an exchange student. Many of his later shorts were awarded at the ifva (Independent Short Film and Video Awards, later renamed as Incubator for Film and Visual Media in Asia). His feature films include When Beckham Met Owen (2004), Magic Boy (2007), The Way We Dance (2013), She Remembers, He Forgets (2015), The Way We Keep Dancing (2020), and The Way We Talk (2024). Wong won Best New Director for The Way We Dance at the Hong Kong Film Awards. The Way We Keep Dancing had six nominations at the Taipei Golden Horse Awards. The Way We Talk, a film centred on Deaf culture, won Best Leading Actress at the Taipei Golden Horse Awards and received seven nominations at the Hong Kong Film Awards. It has also travelled to over 20 film festivals and bagged several other awards. He has been teaching filmmaking at different universities in Hong Kong. Wong is the voice-actor for the protagonist of the Cantonese version of Miyazaki Hayao’s animation, The Wind Rises (2013).

Cedric ELOY 
Producer 
Founder & Director, Cambodia International Film Festival

Cedric Eloy joins the film industry in 1998. He began as a festival organiser championing cinema from the southern hemisphere and engaging with major international events including Cannes, Fespaco, and Montreal.  

In 2009, he co-founded the Cambodia Film Commission alongside Cambodian film master, Rithy Panh, working in partnership with Cambodia's Ministry of Culture, and went on to join the board of the Asian Film Commission Network. In 2010, he launched the Cambodia International Film Festival, now the country's largest international film event, which he continues to direct and programme today. 

As a film commissioner in both France and Cambodia, he has collaborated with acclaimed international directors including Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Stephen Frears, François Ozon, Michael Bay, Angelina Jolie, and Chantal Akerman among others. In 2013, his work with the Commission helped secure Cambodia's first-ever Oscar nomination with The Missing Picture (2013), directed by Rithy Panh.  

Since 2019, he has focused on producing quality films from emerging filmmakers.

Laha MEBOW 
Director | Screenwriter 

Laha Mebow is the first indigenous woman director of feature films in Taiwan. Her fiction and documentary films focus primarily on indigenous stories. Mebow has directed three feature films. Lokah Laqi! (Hang in There, Kids!, 2016) won five awards at the Taipei Film Awards, including Grand Prize, Best Feature Film, and Best Director, and was selected as Taiwan’s submission for Best Foreign Language Film at the Oscars. She earned Best Director for her feature, GAGA (2022), at the Taipei Golden Horse Awards and the Singapore International Film Festival, as well as Best Narrative Feature at the Taipei Film Festival. Her films have travelled to many international film festivals.

In recent years, she has been exploring indigenous stories through myths and fantasies.

WANG Zijian 王子劍
Producer |  Screenwriter
Founder, Blackfin Production

Wang Zijian has long focused on the development, production, and international distribution of Chinese-language auteur cinema. In 2021, he received the honour of Contribution to the International Promotion of Chinese Cinema at the Pingyao International Film Festival.

His producing and presenting credits include Bi Gan’s Kaili Blues (2015), Geng Jun’s Free and Easy (2016), Manchurian Tiger (2021), and Bel Ami (2024), Wang Xuebo’s Knife in the Clear Water (2016), Zheng Lu Xinyuan’s The Cloud in Her Room (2020), Niu Xiaoyu’s Virgin Blue (2021), and Sean Wang’s A Marble Travelogue (2021). His films have frequented major international film festivals, including Visions du Réel, Rotterdam, Sundance, Locarno, Taipei Golden Horse, Beijing, and Hong Kong.

LIU Jiayin 劉伽茵 
Director | Screenwriter  
Associate Professor, Department of Literature, Beijing Film Academy 

As a film director and screenwriter, Liu Jiayin’s works have received widespread international acclaim. Oxhide (2005) was awarded the FIPRESCI International Critics' Prize and the Caligari Film Award at the 55th Berlin International Film Festival, Best Film in the Digital Category at the 29th Hong Kong International Film Festival, and Best Film in the Asian Competition at the 24th Vancouver International Film Festival. Oxhide II (2009) was selected for the Directors' Fortnight at the 62nd Cannes International Film Festival. All Ears (2023) won Best Director and Best Actor in the Main Competition at the 25th Shanghai International Film Festival. 

Liu Jiayin holds a Ph. D. in Film Studies. She supervises doctoral candidates at the Beijing Film Academy.

SHIN Su-won 申秀媛 
Director | Screenwriter | Producer 
Dean, CHANEL X BIFF Asian Film Academy, Busan International Film Festival

Before becoming a filmmaker, Shin Su-won was a middle school history teacher, and has written two novels on teenagers. Her debut feature, Passerby #3 (2010), won the JJ-Star Award at the Jeonju International Film Festival and the Asian Film Award at the Tokyo International Film Festival. Since then, her films have been entering various major international film festivals and winning multiple awards: Circle Line (2012) won the Canal+ Award at Cannes Critics’ Week; Pluto (2013) received a Special Mention for the Crystal Bear at the Berlinale; Madonna (2015) was selected for Un Certain Regard at Cannes; and Glass Garden (2017) opened the Busan International Film Festival and won Best Screenplay Award in the Fantastic section of Fantasporto. Her other highly acclaimed works include Light for the Youth (2019), Hommage (2021), and The Mutation (2025).

She is the first woman Dean of the Asian Film Academy of the Busan International Film Festival.

Brian RATIGAN 
Curator | Director 
Founder and Director, Non Films

Brian Ratigan is an award-winning director and film curator. He is the founder of Non Films, a label for ephemeral animation and experimental cinema in New York City. Ratigan is established in the film festival circuit as a programmer and juror for the Slamdance Film Festival, Atlanta Film Festival, Sidewalk Film Festival, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Indie Memphis, and the London Indie Festival, among others. His work has been featured in the New York Times, Moviemaker Magazine, 1883 Magazine, and film festivals worldwide. He is on the Advisory Board for the Film-Makers' Cooperative and currently runs a bimonthly screening series titled DarkRoom that presents short films throughout multiple boroughs in NYC and beyond.