Jean-Jacques BEINEIX

French director Jean-Jacques Beineix is a recognized director representing the Nouvelle Image in France. His debut feature Diva (1981) earned wide acclaim at the Moscow, Toronto, and other international film festivals in addition to receiving four awards at César. In 1986, he won the top prize in Montréal with Betty Blue (based on a Philippe Djian’s novel), which was also nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at both the Oscars and the Golden Globe Awards. With these two movies, he enthralled the global audience in the 80s.

KIM Hyung-koo

KIM Hyung-koo has shot about 20 films including the short film Dead End (1993), Spring In My Hometown (1998), Peppermint Candy (1999), Musa (2001), Memories Of Murder (2003), Rikidozan: A Hero Extraordinary (2004), The Host (2006), Woman On The Beach (2006), and Happiness (2007). He is currently an associate professor of the Department of Filmmaking at the School of Film, TV & Multimedia at the Korea National University of Arts.

Terri KWAN

Terri Kwan is a top actress in Taiwan. She received the best actress award at the Taiwan New Movie Awards 2007 with her debut film Drop Me A Cat (2003). She has since appeared in popular films such as Turn Left, Turn Right (2003), The Heirloom (2005) and Button Man (2008). Her most recent performance is the historic drama Prince of Tear that was invited to the competition section of Venice International Film Festival 2009.

Pen-ek RATANARUANG

His debut feature Fun Bar Karaoke (1997) received jury award at the Nantes Three Continents Festival. He also directed Transistor Love Story (2001), which premiered at the Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes 2002, and Invisible Waves (2006) among others. His films have screened at previous PIFF events.

Yesim USTAOGLU

The Turkish director drew global attention in 1999 with Journey to the Sun that won the Blue Angle Award at Berlin. Other directed works include The Track (1994) and Waiting for the Clouds (2003). In 2008, her movie Pandora’s Box received awards for Best Film and Best Actress at the San Sebastian International Film Festival.

KANG Soo-Yeon

KANG Soo-Yeon began her film career as a child actress and is now the representing star of Korean Cinema. She won the Best Actress Award at Venice and Nantes in 1986 with her performance in Sibaji and at Moscow with Aje Aje Bara Aje in 1998, and earned world-wide recognition. She was the Juror at Tokyo International Film Festival in 1989. Since 2002, she expanded her field to television and made an appearance in Hanbando (2006) as Empress Myungsung. Her works include A Rood to Race Track (1991), Blue in You (1992), Girls’ Night Out (1998).

Frédéric BOYER

Frédéric BOYER founded Vidéosphère in 1994 that has become one of the largest DVD-VHS stores in Europe. Vidéosphère hold a wide variety of films for film lovers such as a arthouse, cult, experimental, auteur, and classic movies. Since 2003, he has been on the Directors’ Fortnight Committee of Cannes as a programmer focusing on the US, the UK, Australia, East Europe, and Scandinavia. Boyer has been named the next artistic director of the Directors’ Fortnight of Cannes.

Alissa SIMON

Alissa Simon was associate Director of Programming at the Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago for 12 Years. In 1999, she was named “Chicagoan of the Year” in the arts for her innovative programming. She served as a juror at the Sarajevo, Sochi, Torino, San Francisca, Cluj, Montréal, and Vancouver film festivals. She also contributes articles to Variety , CinemaScope , and other publications about films and film festivals in addition to being a programmer for the Palm Spring International Film Festival in California.

Marianne SLOT

Marianne Slot participated as a co-producer or co-executive producer in the Danish director Lars von Trier’s “Golden Heart Trilogy” – The Idiots, Dancer in the Dark, and Breaking the Waves . They first met in Breaking the Waves , the winner of the Grand Prix at Cannes 1996. She also co-produced films with directors from all over the world. She joined the World Premier of the 13th Pusan International Film Festival to show Be Good as a producer. Recently, she again joined hands with Trier as an executive co-producer in Antichrist .

GOH Young-jae

Since 2006, Goh Young-jae has been the secretary general of the Association of Korean Independent Film & Video. He is also the head of a film studio Nurimbo which produced Our School (2006), Life Track (2007) and Old Partner (2008). He recently founded a digital distributor Indieplug Inc. to distribute independent films.

Dorothee WENNER

Dorothee Wenner is a journalist, curator, and film director. She is a programmer for the International Forum of Berlin with a focus on Indian and Sub-Saharan Africa regions. Works that she directed include Hollywood Killed Me (1998), 10 Foreigners Talking About Germany (2002), Star Biz (2005), Shanti Plus (2006), and Peace Mission (2008). Her works were introduced in previous Wide Angle sections of the Pusan International Film Festival.

Jane YU

Jane Yu earned a Master’s Degree from the Cinema Studies Department at New York University. She has been a film festival programmer since 1995. She served as a program director at the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival, Women Make Waves Film Festival, and Green International Film Festival. She is a program director of the Taipei Film Festival and the Taiwan International Documentary Festival as well as a film critic and college lecturer.

Simojukka RUIPPO

Simojukka Ruippo is an independent documentary film director and producer. He has been a programmer and a selection committee member of the Tampere International Short Film Festival for 16 years. He co-directed his first documentary work Pyongyang Robogirl with Jouni Hokkanen in 2001. They made several films together including Children’s Palace (2003), The Dictator’s Cut (2005), Migrant Workers Are Not Terrorists (2005) and DMZ (2007), which were invited to the Wide Angle at the Pusan International Film Festival.

TAN Chui Mui

Tan Chui Mui is actively directing independent films including several short films. Among them, A Tree In Tanjung Malim was recognized at the 51th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen. Her first feature film Love Conquers All won the New Currents Award at the 11th Pusan International Film Festival. She is working on her second feature The Year without A Summer.

Yoo Ji-tae

He debuted in the 1998 movie Bye June . Starring in Attack The Gas Station!, One Fine Spring Day , Old Boy and Woman Is the Future of Man, he is one of the highly acclaimed Korean actors. He successfully debuted as a director with the short film The Bike Boy and How Does the Blind Dream . He has been invited as a jury to many overseas short film festivals.