Instructors

Directing
Cinematography
Music
Editing
Special Lecture

Liew Seng Tat (Malaysia)

Liew Seng Tat (Malaysia)

Filmography

Liew Seng Tat emerged as a young filmmaker with a unique comedic voice soon after he graduated from the Multimedia University Malaysia, where he majored in 3D animation. His 2007 debut feature Flower in the Pocket swept multiple awards and prizes in numerous international film festivals including Busan, Rotterdam, Fribourg, Deauville and Pesaro. In 2008, he was selected to participate at the Festival de Cannes Director's Residence - Cinefondation. He also participated in the 2010 Torino Film Lab and the 2011 Sundance Screenwriters Lab with his second feature film 'Men Who Save The World' (formerly known as 'In What City Does It Live?'). He founded Everything Films in 2010 and is actively involved in the Malaysian independent film industry, working as a director and producer.

YIM Pilsung (Korea)

YIM Pilsung (Korea)

Filmography

YIM Pilsung is a filmmaker who has primal interest in human desire and the destruction it causes. It is evident in his early short films and debut feature. , his first feature film, won Orient Express-Casa Asia Award(Best Asian Film) in Sitges International Film Festival. His second feature film won Best Film Prize in Orient Express section and Special Jury Prize at Fantasporto International Film Festival, and nominated in competition at several film festivals. In , YIM displays two different approaches to the topic of doom: and . He released his third feature length work which is based on the Korean folk tale 'The Story of Simcheong' in 2014, having world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Sidi Saleh (Indonesia)

Sidi Saleh (Indonesia)

Sidi Saleh was born in Jakarta-Indonesia on April 5th 1979. He received a bachelor's degree in cinematography from the Jakarta Institute of Arts. Since he graduated from university, he entered the film industry in the early 2000s and continually active in the cinematography department. He has credits for some experimental feature film as a cinematographer such as "Blind Pig Who Wants to Fly" (the Fipresci Award at the Rotterdam Film Festival 2009), "Postcard from the Zoo" (in Competition at the Berlinale Film Festival 2012) and one of short films title is "Kara -the Daughter of a Tree" (Cannes Director's Fortnight 2005).
Sidi made his directorial debut with 2011's "Full Moon", one of short film segment in omnibus "Belkibolang" and thenceforth continuing his career as a film director. In 2013, he participated in film workshops at Berlinale Talent Campus.
Sidi's third short film "Fitri" was in competition at the Clermont Ferrand International Film Festival 2014. His next short film, "Maryam", won the best short film at the 71° Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica Film Festival 2014 in Venice.

HA Sungmin (Korea)

HA Sungmin (Korea)

HA Sungmin is cinematographer who has a lot of experience over a wide area: television commercials, feature films, short films, 3D and so on. He got his start as an assistant cameraman in various productions. He worked as cinematographer in several feature films such as , , and . He also participated in documentary film . Based on diverse experiences, he taught students in Youngsan University and Daejeon University.

Mowg (Korea)

Mowg (Korea)

Mowg is Korean film score composer. He has worked with numerous films at home and abroad. He participated in and in USA, and in Japan. His film music in was named 'The Film Score of the Year 20' by 'Film Music Magazine' in America. He also won several best music award for his film score in prestigious film award in Korea: Blue Dragon Award for Best Music for in 2010, in 2011, in 2013, and Grand Bell Award for Best Music for in 2012 and in 2014. Recently, he's performed film score for Korean film such as , ,, and .

Steve M. CHOE (Korea)

Steve M. CHOE (Korea)

Steve M. Choe holds M.F.A in Film Editing from American Film Institute. He started his work experience as PM in Cinetopia Productions and then worked as editor in DMZ Film. In 2005 he started C-47 Post Studio in Korea, now a leading post-production company that is responsible for over 90 feature films. Steve has edited over 50 feature films. He has been nominated as best editor on many film awards. In 2013, he won Korea's Daejong Award for best editing on . Recently, Steve edited , , , , and so on. He also has trained students at Korea National University of Arts in school of Film, TV & Multimedia since 2006.

Michael LAKE (Australia)

Michael Lake has over 40 years experience in Production and Management within both the Australian and International Film and Television Industries. During his career he has held senior executive positions at The Grundy Organization, Crawford Productions, Warner Roadshow Studios, Village Roadshow Pictures and WWE Films Inc. In December 2010 he was appointed CEO of Pinewood Iskandar Malaysia Studios. He currently sits on the Advisory Boards of AFCI (Association of Film Commissioners International) and AFCNet (Asian Film Commissions Network) and is an Adjunct Professor at Griffith University Queensland - Griffith Film School.

TCHA Sungjai (Korea)

TCHA Sungjai contributed greatly to the quantitative and qualitative growth of the Korean film industry and was responsible for changing its production system, while he ran Uno Films Production, Sidus, and SidusFNH. With his preference for films that have both popular appeal and literary sensitivity, he nurtured many creative directors, including HUR Jinho, IM Sangsoo, BONG Joonho and so on, who now represent the Korean film industry. After he resigned from the company in 2009, he has worked as a professor for the Graduate School of Digital Image and Contents of Dongguk University. Then he founded Nomad Films in 2011 and presented several low budget films such as and in 2012.

`Kamil OTHMAN (Malaysia)`

Filmography

Kamil Othman is the director General for the National Film Development Corporation Malaysia(FINAS), a position he has held since November of 2014. Coming off a very successful stint at the Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC) as its Vice-President, he now takes on his new position with high expectations tailing him - providing the leadership to drive FINAS. At the Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC), he was given the responsibility to develop the Creative Multimedia Industries as an economic growth area. He also continued to reinvent the Creative Multimedia Industry through both technology and creativity.

`Richard SHARKEY (U.S)`

Filmography

Richard SHARKEY began his film career working the foley stages and transfer bays of London's post production facilities. From 1999 to 2001, he worked on Peter Jackson's trilogy in New Zealand, as supervising location production manager. SHARKEY has worked on studio pictures that have included three films from the "James Bond" franchise, , , , , , , and . In long form television formats, he has served in Europe as line producer on HBO's Golden Globe & EMMY award-winning production "John Adams". He recently produced Season 1 of the Netflix Originals series "Marco Polo" that premiered on 2014, becoming the first producer to take a film to the Pinewood Film Studios facility in Malaysia as well as taking that crew to shoot extensively in Kazakhstan and in Venice, Italy. He is currently nearing production completion on Season 2, which has been shooting in Hungary, Slovakia and Malaysia and is due to premiere in spring, 2016.

ASEAN-ROK Film Community Programme

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