Korean

Gina Kim is a writer and director whose five feature films and works of video art have screened at over 150 prestigious international film festivals and venues such as Cannes, Venice, Berlin, and Sundance, as well as MoMa, Centre Pompidou, and the Smithsonian. Praised by Le Figaro as a “fearless feminist who conceals an extreme sensitivity,” Kim’s Invisible Light (2003) was selected as one of the 10 best films of 2003 by Film Comment. Never Forever (2007), starring Jung-woo Ha and Vera Farmiga, was the first co-production between the United States and South Korea. Kim’s latest work Bloodless (2017) won the Best VR Story Award at the 74th Venice International Film Festival, followed by international acclaim and numerous awards and nominations. Kim’s films have been theatrically released to critical acclaim in Europe, Asia, and the US. Kim is a professor at UCLA.

Hye-Ryeong Park (1974, Seoul) has made more than 40 documentaries for South Korea’s major television broadcasters. In her work, she takes on an anthropological approach and focuses on people and traditions in the rapidly changing and modernizing world. She is an executive producer of television programs related to the world of food. She founded her production company, Hayanso Entertainment, in 2009.

Hye-Ryeong Park (1974, Seoul) has made more than 40 documentaries for South Korea’s major television broadcasters. In her work, she takes on an anthropological approach and focuses on people and traditions in the rapidly changing and modernizing world. She is an executive producer of television programs related to the world of food. She founded her production company, Hayanso Entertainment, in 2009.

Maija Blåfield is a filmmaker from Helsinki, Finland. Her works lay between documentary and experimental film. She received the main prize at the 57th Ann Arbor Film Festival in 2019, and the State Prize for Media Arts in Finland in 2014. She was nominated for the Ars Fennica award in 2017.