Faculty
Trey ELLIS (USA) - Group A
Filmography
Award winning film maker Eric Khoo who helms Zhao Wei Films has been credited for reviving the Singapore film Trey ELLIS is a novelist, filmmaker, playwright, essayist and an Associate Professor at Columbia University. He is an Executive Producer of the HBO documentaries True Justice: Bryan Stevenson's Fight for Equality (2019) and King in the Wilderness (2018). He is the author of the novels, 『Platitudes』, 『Home Repairs』 and the American Book Award Winning, 『Right Here, Right Now』, as well as the memoir Bedtime Stories. His extensive work for the screen includes writing the screenplay for the Peabody winning and Emmy nominated HBO film The Tuskegee Airmen (1995). His works have been screened at the Museum of Modern Art and the Brooklyn Academy of Music. His essays have appeared in 『The New York Times』, 『GQ. Playboy』, 『Vanity Fair』 and 『NewYorker.com』. His plays have been commissioned by the Lincoln Center Institute and have been performed around the country including Washington, D.C.’s historic Ford’s Theater, the Pasadena Playhouse and the New Victory Theater in New York.
Marietta VON HAUSSWOLFF VON BAUMGARTEN (Sweden) - Group B
Filmography
Marietta VON HAUSSWOLFF VON BAUMGARTEN is a Swedish screenwriter, and an international script consultant whose work over the last 12 years includes Sundance Labs, TorinoFilmLab, Binger, Biennale College, Feature Expanded, Hezayah, Rotterdam FF, Toronto FF, Cinelink Sarajevo, Talent Campus, Script Station, Bridging the Dragon, MidPoint and Locarno Open Doors. She has done script development in Russia, China, Nepal, Myanmar and Pakistan. She studied at Tisch NYC, is member of the European Film Academy. She worked for many years with development and writing of TV-series, and is presently writing for Netflix. The films she has been part of have competed in film festivals all around the world - such as The Babadook (2014), Nancy (2018), Hunting Season (2012-2015), Diamond Island (2016), The Fits (2015), Le Quattro Volte (2010), Too late to die young (2018), Children of Sarajevo (2013), The Heiresses (2018), The Load (2018), Mediterranea (2015) and Port Authority (2019). Her debut feature film CALL GIRL (2012) won the Fipresci award in Toronto, competed in Torino, Stockholm, Buenos Aires, Taipei. She is co-founder of The Write Retreat.
CHOI Yeonu (USA / Korea) - Group A
Filmography
CHOI Yeonu is the Chief Producer of International Productions at CJ Entertainment. She supervises international production business around the globe, focusing mainly in Southeast Asia. She is in charge of expanding CJ Entertainment’s global production business. With more than 10 years of experience, she is an expert in every process of international film production. Ms. Choi’s international production credit includes Final Recipe (2014), Make Your Move (2014), Dreadout (2019) and Suddenly Twenty (2016). For Indonesia and Thailand, Impetigore, Bebas, Love Battle, Classic Again and That March are ready to be presented this year. Born in Seoul, raised in the U.S., Ms. Choi holds a B.A. from Boston University majoring in International Relations and received Juris Doctor from University of Maryland School of Law. She is also a graduate of Korean Academy of Film Arts under producing program. Before joining the entertainment industry, she practiced law in the U.S., specializing in corporate finance.
Alemberg ANG (The Philippines) - Group B
Filmography
After being a school teacher for ten years, Alemberg ANG shifted into a career of film producing. His filmmaking is shaped by his passion for socio-civic issues, and Philippine arts and literature. His films have traveled extensively to festivals in Cairo, Warsaw, Dubai, Taipei, Tokyo, Shanghai, Torino and others, working with filmmakers like Loy Arcenas, Antoinette Jadaone, Dan Villegas and Petersen Vargas. He was invited to the UNESCO International Meeting of Independent Producers, Rotterdam Lab, Berlinale Talents, Talents Tokyo, First Cut Lab, and SEAFIC. His projects have participated at the Cinemart in Rotterdam, Hong Kong Asian Film Financing Forum, Busan’s Asian Project Market, Golden Horse Film Project Promotion and the Tribeca Film Institute’s Filmmakers Lab. Locally, his films have won awards at the Gawad Urian, Famas, Film Academy of the Philippines, Cinemalaya, Cinema One, QCinema and other organizing bodies. He dreams of one day making literature mainstream.
John TORRES (The Philippines)
Filmography
John TORRES is an independent filmmaker, musician and writer. He has made more than a dozen short films and five features. His work fictionalizes and reworks personal and found documentations of love, family relations, and memory in relation to current events, hearsays, myth, and folklore. He teaches part-time at the Ateneo de Manila University and conducts filmmaking workshops and co-organizes artist talks and screenings in Los Otros, a Manila-based space, film lab, and platform committed to the intersections of film and art, with a focus on process over product. A special focus of his works has been shown at the Viennale, Seoul, Cosquin, and Bangkok. ⓒ Residencies OPEN, 2019. Courtesy NTU CCA Singapore
Peter Ki LEE (USA / Korea)
Filmography
Peter Ki LEE began his career as an Assistant Editor for the award-winning program, America’s Next Top Model (2003~). From there, Peter worked in various roles from Assistant Editor, Editor, to Associate Producer on hit shows from networks including: NBC, CW, MTV, VH1, DISCOVERY and most notably, the Emmy Award-winning primetime program, Top Chef (2006~), on BRAVO. In 2016, he moved in Seoul, Korea to join the C-47 Post Studio, Korea’s leading one-stop shop solution for digital media service as a post supervisor.
Shireen SENO (The Philippines) - Master Class with John TORRES
Filmography
Shireen SENO is an artist and filmmaker whose work addresses memory, history, and image-making, often in relation to the idea of home. She has had two solo exhibitions and is a 2018 recipient of the 13 Artists Award from the Cultural Center of the Philippines. Her photobook Trunks has been exhibited widely and is in the collection of the Asia-Pacific Photobook Archive. She started out in film shooting stills for Lav Diaz before going on to direct her debut feature, Big Boy (2012), which won Best First Film at the Festival de Cine Lima Independiente. Her second film, Nervous Translation (2018), premiered at Rotterdam in Hivos Tiger Competition where it won the NETPAC Award for Best Asian Film. It picked up several more awards and screened at MoMA for New Directors/New Films and at the Tate Modern as part of their Artists’ Cinema programme. ⓒ Rolex - Audoin Desforges
Remton Siega ZUASOLA (The Philippines) - Discussion between the Script Consultants
Filmography
Remton Siega ZUASOLA is a Visayan filmmaker, one of the leading figures of the Cebuano New Wave - a group of young filmmakers advocating the propagation of Cebuano Regional films in Philippine national cinema. His debut feature film The Dream of Eleuteria (2010) a 90 minute single-take film considered by Philippine film critics and historians as a modern Filipino classic received numerous international and national accolades and made him the youngest Best Director awardee of the Philippine’s most prestigious Gawad Urian awards in 2010. His latest Feature film SWAP had its international premiere at the 63rd San Sebastian International film festival in Spain and toured to numerous film festivals around the globe. He is currently taking a break from directing to focus on writing his new screenplays; an epic period piece film set in 1521 battle of Mactan and a backpacking film around Southeast Asia. He is an alumnus of the Berlinale talents in Germany and an expert speaker at Tokyo talents 2015.
Mary Liza B. DINO (The Philippines) - FDCP Presenter
Filmography
Mary Liza B. DIÑO (The Philippines) is an award-winning actress and the Chairperson and CEO of the Film Development Council of the Philippines (FDCP), the national agency responsible for film policies and programs to ensure the economic, cultural, and educational development of the Philippine film industry. She is a film, TV, and stage actress who has appeared... in numerous films for both independent, commercial, and studio acting. Notably, her performances in the independent movies – In Nomine Matris (2013), Toto (2015), and Ringgo: The Dog Shooter (2016) – earned her a Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress nominations from Gawad Urian and Best Supporting Actress from FAMAS, respectively.
Trey ELLIS (USA)
Filmography
Award winning film maker Eric Khoo who helms Zhao Wei Films has been credited for reviving the Singapore film Trey ELLIS is a novelist, filmmaker, playwright, essayist and an Associate Professor at Columbia University. He is an Executive Producer of the HBO documentaries True Justice: Bryan Stevenson's Fight for Equality (2019) and King in the Wilderness (2018). He is the author of the novels, 『Platitudes』, 『Home Repairs』 and the American Book Award Winning, 『Right Here, Right Now』, as well as the memoir Bedtime Stories. His extensive work for the screen includes writing the screenplay for the Peabody winning and Emmy nominated HBO film The Tuskegee Airmen (1995). His works have been screened at the Museum of Modern Art and the Brooklyn Academy of Music. His essays have appeared in 『The New York Times』, 『GQ. Playboy』, 『Vanity Fair』 and 『NewYorker.com』. His plays have been commissioned by the Lincoln Center Institute and have been performed around the country including Washington, D.C.’s historic Ford’s Theater, the Pasadena Playhouse and the New Victory Theater in New York.
Marietta VON HAUSSWOLFF VON BAUMGARTEN (Sweden)
Filmography
Marietta VON HAUSSWOLFF VON BAUMGARTEN is a Swedish screenwriter, and an international script consultant whose work over the last 12 years includes Sundance Labs, TorinoFilmLab, Binger, Biennale College, Feature Expanded, Hezayah, Rotterdam FF, Toronto FF, Cinelink Sarajevo, Talent Campus, Script Station, Bridging the Dragon, MidPoint and Locarno Open Doors. She has done script development in Russia, China, Nepal, Myanmar and Pakistan. She studied at Tisch NYC, is member of the European Film Academy. She worked for many years with development and writing of TV-series, and is presently writing for Netflix. The films she has been part of have competed in film festivals all around the world - such as The Babadook (2014), Nancy (2018), Hunting Season (2012-2015), Diamond Island (2016), The Fits (2015), Le Quattro Volte (2010), Too late to die young (2018), Children of Sarajevo (2013), The Heiresses (2018), The Load (2018), Mediterranea (2015) and Port Authority (2019). Her debut feature film CALL GIRL (2012) won the Fipresci award in Toronto, competed in Torino, Stockholm, Buenos Aires, Taipei. She is co-founder of The Write Retreat.
MOON Sungjoo (Korea)
Filmography
Moon Sungjoo is a creative producer and a former GR Manager of International Film Financing and Production at CJ E&M. He majored in Political Science and Diplomacy in Dongguk University and was responsible for creative development and financing in COREA ENTERTAINMENT, DSP ENT, SIDUS FNH, CJ E&M and JAEDAM MEDIA. Since 2013, he co-produced and financed local films in Indonesia, Vietnam and Japan. Currently, Moon is developing several projects with M Pictures as an agent and writing film scripts as a creative producer. He developed, co-produced and co-financed Korean films such as My Tutor Friend (2003), Mapado (2005), The Housemaid (2010), The Gifted Hand (2012) and Indonesian films such as 20 Forever (2017), Cado Cado : Doctor 101 (2016) and A Copy of My Mind (2016). He financed Vientamese films The Housemaid (2016), Sweet 20 (2015) and Japanese films, Blade of the Immortal (2017), Sing My Life (2016).
Joyce CHO (Korea)
Filmography
Joyce Heeyoung Cho is a media financing/producing specialist based in Seoul, Korea. CHO started her industry career as a producer at a local film house right after graduating from Korean Academy of Film Arts (KAFA) as a producing major in 2007. Her previous major work experience in the field includes work at CJ CGV, CJ E&M, and Timewise Investment, where she covered extensive range of roles from distributing to financing more than 50 local commercial films. In 2015, Cho co-produced The Last Knights, a US/Korea/Japan co-production epic directed by Kazuaki Kiriya and starring Clive Owen and Morgan Freeman. More recently, she also co-produced a local webtoon titled Ghost published through a local webtoon platform called Toomics, which plans to expand its prequel through a feature.
HAN Sunhee (Korea)
Filmography
Han Sunhee is a filmmaker and film educator working in Seoul and Busan, South Korea. Her career as a film producer started with the feature-length documentary Talking Architect (2011). Afterwards, she went on to produce Manshin: Ten Thousand Spirits (2013), which won the Best Feature Award at the Toronto Reel Asian Film Festival, and The Basement Satellite (2013), which was invited to the Hot Docs. She also directed and produced Old Days (2016), which was invited to Jeonju Int’l Film Festival (Korea), and Udine Far East Film Festival (Italy) etc. Currently she is producing a narrative feature project The Final Print, which won the Busan Award at 2018 Asian Project Market (APM) and then was invited to Ties That Bind Asia/Europe Co-production Workshop(Italy) and IFP Project Forum No Borders (USA). Her new project Winter Worm, Summer Grass has also been selected at 2019 APM.
Darcy PAQUET (USA / Korea)
Filmography
Originally from Massachusetts, Darcy Paquet has been living in Seoul since 1997. He first became active in the film industry as a journalist, launching the website Koreanfilm.org in 1999 and working as a reporter for Screen International and later Variety. He is the author of New Korean Cinema: Breaking the Waves (2010, Columbia University Press), and he works as a Program Consultant for the Udine Far East Film Festival. Paquet has translated the subtitles for a wide range of Korean films including Parasite (2019), The Spy Gone North (2018), On the Beach at Night Alone (2017) and The Handmaiden (2016). He has also occasionally appeared as a supporting actor in films like Im Sangsoo’s The Taste of Money (2012) and the TV drama 3 Days (2014). In 2014 he co-launched the Wildflower Film Awards Korea, an annual awards ceremony recognizing achievement in Korea’s independent film sector.
OH Jungwan (Korea)
Filmography
As the producer and founder of Bom Film Productions, OH Jung-wan has focused on producing accomplished feature films with a unique style that challenges the conventional ideas of cinema. Her filmography with Bom film productions includes the award-winning box office successes The Foulking (2000), A Tale of Two Sisters (2003), Untold Scandal (2003), A Bittersweet Life (2005), You Are My Sunshine (2005), Woman on the Beach (2006), Night and Day (2008), A Man and a Woman (2016). As one of the most prolific and respected producer in the South Korean film industry, she is also internationally established being a pioneer in cross-border filmmaking by partnering with filmmakers in Hong Kong, Japan and Thailand. She has been on the board and jury member of many prestigious international film festivals and organizations, and has been the deputy director of the Jecheon International Music & Film Festival since 2016.
Darcy PAQUET (USA / Korea)
Filmography
Originally from Massachusetts, Darcy Paquet has been living in Seoul since 1997. He first became active in the film industry as a journalist, launching the website Koreanfilm.org in 1999 and working as a reporter for Screen International and later Variety. He is the author of New Korean Cinema: Breaking the Waves (2010, Columbia University Press), and he works as a Program Consultant for the Udine Far East Film Festival. Paquet has translated the subtitles for a wide range of Korean films including Parasite (2019), The Spy Gone North (2018), On the Beach at Night Alone (2017) and The Handmaiden (2016). He has also occasionally appeared as a supporting actor in films like Im Sangsoo’s The Taste of Money (2012) and the TV drama 3 Days (2014). In 2014 he co-launched the Wildflower Film Awards Korea, an annual awards ceremony recognizing achievement in Korea’s independent film sector.
Sophie BOURDON (The Netherlands)
Filmography
Sophie Bourdon is the Head of the Open Doors section at Locarno International Film Festival, which offers not only a co-production platform highlighting 8 feature projects from South East Asia and Mongolia (country focus between 2019 and 2021) but also a 5-day incubating lab targeted at the new generation of creative producers in this region. Bourdon has a 25-year experience in the film industry, in international sales and co-productions. She had been Chief Executive of ACE Producers for 11 years after a 10-year career as a sales agent (including at MK2). She has been collaborating with established filmmakers such as Abbas Kiarostami, Michael Haneke and Krzysztof Kieslowski among others.
Georges GOLDENSTERN (France)
Filmography
Georges Goldenstern was at the beginning of the cultural channel ARTE and created Arte France Cinema. As general director, he coproduced during fifteen years more than 250 films from all over the world. He also co-produced and assisted the production of films such as A Summer in La Goulette (1996), Salut cousin! (1996), The Mutants (1998) and Lumumba (2000). Georges Goldenstern is the General Manager of the Cinefondation in Cannes, created in 1998 by the Festival de Cannes to inspire and support the next generation of international filmmakers. Since then the Cinefondation has developed complementary programmes to help achieve its goal. One of them, the Residence du Festival, has provided each year since 2000 accommodation and support for twelve selected young directors.
Raymond PHATHANAVIRANGOON (United Kingdom)
Filmography
Raymond Phathanavirangoon is Executive Director of Southeast Asia Fiction Film Lab (SEAFIC). As producer, his works include Boo Junfeng’s Apprentice (Cannes Un Certain Regard 2016) and Pen-ek Ratanaruang’s Samui Song (Venice Days 2017) and Headshot (Berlin Panorama 2011), among others. He also previously served as international programmer for Toronto International Film Festival and was Programme Consultant for Hong Kong International Film Festival and Cannes Critics' Week. Prior to that, he was Director of Marketing & Special Projects (Acquisitions) for sales agent Fortissimo Films. He has served as expert for Berlinale Talents, Taipei Film Academy, Cannes Short Film Corner and others.
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