FirstFlight Selection Committee

Graduatedfrom Korean Academy of Film Arts

2008<Young Hee>

2009<What is not Romance>, Co-director

2011<Cat's Way>, Co-director, Production Support Program at SICAF

FirstFlight Selection Committee

Animationdirector.

Debutedwith a short animation <What this naughty boy has to say>

Herfilmography includes <Bad Memories of the ghost> and <Honest man>.She is working at Gyeonggi Creation Center and lecturing at the department ofVideo & Animation of Keimyung University.

2013,<Honest man>, Rising author’s solo show at "Alternative SpaceLoop"

2012,Artist in residence of <Author’s House (La Maison des Auteurs)> in FranceAngouleme

2011,Graduated from École européenne supérieure de l’image (DNSEP)

2011,Directed <Bad Memories of the ghost>

-Indie-AniFest, Independent Walk

2008,Graduated from Ewha Womans University with masters degrees in visual design(M.Des)

2007,Directed <What this naughty boy has to say>

-Indie-AniFest, KIAFA Special Prize

- HidaInternational Animation Festival of Folktales and Fables, Special Jury Prize

FirstFlight Selection Committee

Programmerof the Indie-AniFest2013

FormerProgrammer at the 3rd Environment Film Festival and Indie Forum Authors’Meeting

Completedthe course work in Animation major at the Graduate School of Art and Technologyat ChungAng University

Independent Walk Selection Committee

Artist,Programmer of Film Festivals

Majoredin Animation and Illustration and works as a freelance artist.

Chooworks as a festival director of Siggraph Asia after working as a programmer atSeoul International Cartoon & Animation Festival, Gwacheon International SFFestival and the Pucheon International Student Animation Festival since 2000. Ajury at the International Festival of Animated Film Stuttgart in Germany,SIGGRAPH, SIGGRAPH Asia, CINDI etc. Every year, Choo holds animation workshopsfor children at Gwacheon National Science Museum since 2011, and lectures atKorea National University of Arts and Huge Dream Counseling Psychology Center.

Independent Walk Selection Committee

Festivaldirector of Indie-AniFest 2007-2013

Directorof Korean Independent Animation Filmmakers Association

Professorof Animation department at ChungKang College of Cultural Industries

Directorof Organizing committee at PISAF 2013

Memberof Executive committee at SICAF 2012

Ex-advisorof the Animation Committee at the Korean Film Council

Ex-directorof ‘Anima-Forum,’ a group of Korean Independent Animation Creators

Ex-directorof FUTURE ART, an animation creating group

Independent Walk Selection Committee

Born in1975.

Graduatedfrom department of sculpture and visual communication design at HongikUniversity.

Graduatedfrom Film Studies at the graduate school of Advanced Imaging Science, Multimedia& Film, ChungAng University.

Kim isan animation director presently producing stop motion animations using variousobject at B01 Studio. His filmography includes <Bologee Story>,<Soeyoun> and <INDIA’s Net>. <Noodle Fish> directed in 2012won the Best Picture for animations at Warsaw Film Festival, the Best Pictureand the Audience Prize at Indie-AniFest, the Grand Prize at Asian InternationalShort Film Festival, the Best Picture at Jeonju International Film Festival,the Best Picture at Daegu Short Film Festival, and the Best Film at TeheranAnimation Film Festival.

Roels learned animation atRoyal Academy of Fine Arts in Belgium. His first short animation Oh Willyco-directed by Emma De Swaef won the awards from various film festivals allover the world. He is now working on his films with Emma at Beast AnimationStudio in Belgium.

GerbenSchermer (Netherlands, 1959) started the Holland Animation Film Festivaltogether with animation filmmaker Gerrit van Dijk in 1985.

Schermer’spassion for the continuation of animation as an independent art form has led toa distinguished career in festival selection and programming. Schermer has heldpositions as a member of the board the international organizations ASIFA andCARTOON, and the Dutch organizations Holland Animation Association and House ofShorts. He was a founding member of the Netherlands Institute for AnimatedFilms and served as a consultant for the Netherlands Film Fund.

NowadaysSchermer is active in the of the Creative Industries Fund and recently also asadvisor for the VandenEnde Foundation. Gerben Schermer composed guest programsfor numerous festivals around the world and is occasionally involved in filmpro guest programs duction

•       Professor of Animation department at thegraduate school of Advanced Imaging Science, Chung Ang University.

•       2001 <Ice Age>, Technical Director(Lighting, Composition)

•       2003 <Sinbad: Legend Of The SevenSeas>, Lead Lighting Artist (Lead Lighting, Visual Development, Composition)

•       2004 <In The Forest>

•       -2004 Zagreb International AnimationFestival, Grand Competition

•       -2005 Annecy International AnimationFestival, Short Film(Official Selection)

•       2006 <Toy Artist: Papa & baby>

-     2006 SIGGRAPH ASIA, Animation TheaterSection

•       2010 <Mom>

-     2010 Annecy International AnimationFestival, Out of Competition

-     2010 CINANIMA, Official Competition

•       2013 <Pao>

-     Benetton Live Windows, InteractiveAnimation Project

•      Cinema talker, Announcer

•      Directed and hosted CBS-FM <The MusicFrom The Movie>

•      Member of Executive committee at JecheonInternational Music & Film Festival

•      Shin has been producing and hosting a radioshow entitled Shin’s Cinema Music since February 1998. As an MC, Shin hostedvarious film festivals including Jecheon International Music & FilmFestival, Seoul International Agape Film Festival, Korea Youth Film Festival,Kofra Film Awards Ceremony, Maxmovie Best Film Awards and others. Writescolumns at Autocar Korea, PD Journal, Next Plus and other media. Regularly andirregularly hosts festival events such as ‘Guest Visit’ programs.

•      Wrote an essay book, ‘Power Together’ and‘Thank You For the Movie’. Co-wrote ‘Cinema Letter’ and ‘Movie Collage CinemaTalk’.

Festivaldirector of Busan International Kid’s Film Festival

Memberof Executive committee at Busan International Film Festival

Memberof The Association of Busan Independent Film

Directorof the Korean Independent Animation Filmmakers Association