Adythia Utama is a filmmaker based in Jakarta, taking on the roles of director, videographer, music producer, and video editor. He graduated in 2010 with a Bachelor of Art degree from the Jakarta Institute of the Arts concentrating in documentary. His audiovisual and film works have been screened internationally. “BISING – noise and experimental music in Indonesia” is his first feature documentary film.
Andrea Nirmala Widjajanto (b. 1999) is an Indonesian film writer/director based between Jakarta and Toronto. Her works utilize genre films as a medium to dissect sociopolitical, cultural and environmental issues through a female gaze. Often drawing from personal experiences and her interests in displacement and geographical boundaries, she is in pursuit of exploring her own brand of Indonesian futurism as a mix of mythology, occult elements and technological advancements in a (post-)colonial setting.
Andy Huang is an award-winning film and television producer based in Melbourne. His recent producing credits include More Than a Father (in production), Replica (2026), My AI Lover (2022), and If You’re a Dream, Don’t Wake Me Up (2021). Andy’s work has been recognised with numerous accolades. Andy is the founder and Creative Producer at Axel Rise Films and was previously an Artistic Manager at Grandshow Productions.
Bora Lee-Kil (1990) is a South Korean filmmaker exploring Deaf culture and disability. She holds an MA from the Netherlands Film Academy. Her documentary Glittering Hands (2014) won a special mention at Yamagata IDFF, and Untold (2018) was honored at Busan IFF. A UnionDocs and Berlinale Talents alum, her current project, Our Bodies, is supported by Chicken & Egg Pictures and received the Best Pitch Award at DMZ Docs Industry, continuing her storytelling from the intersection of silence and sound.
Carin Leong is a Singaporean documentary filmmaker and journalist based in Brooklyn.
Her work explores themes of science, cultural memory, and landscapes. Her film, Sandcastles (Field of Vision) was selected for IF/Then SEA, a joint program by the Tribeca Film Institute and IN-DOCS, and premiered at SXSW in 2024. Her work has received support from Aesthetica Film Festival, DOK Leipzig, and UFO. In 2024, she was recognized by Filmmaker Magazine as one of the 25 Faces of Independent Film.
CHANG Tzu Hsiang is a director and cinematographer from Taiwan and an alumnus of the Golden Horse Film Academy. He focuses on individual fate in contemporary society, seeking a profound dialogue between the camera and reality.
Filmmaker and Artist. Her practice begins with family memory, migration, and everyday observation through moving images, archival research, and fieldwork. She graduated from the Department of Filmmaking at Taipei National University of the Arts. In 2024, her works were featured in a focus program at Taiwan’s Taoyuan Documentary Project.
Chouwa Liang is a Beijing-based documentary filmmaker. Her work explores intimacy and emotional life in contemporary Chinese society from a female perspective. Her short films include A World Away (2018), Intimate Strangers (2019), I Love You Too (2019), and My AI Lover (2022), which was featured on The New York Times Op-Docs, Aeon, and PBS. Her debut feature Replica premiered at the Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival, where it won the Silver Alexander Award.
Dai Wei is an independent filmmaker based in Taiwan, working across the realms of both documentary and fiction. She explores “stories in the cracks,” focusing on the unheard and blending reality with experimental art to push the boundaries of imagination. For her, cinema is more than a medium; it is a vital language for the voiceless.
Daria Podsiadlo is a Polish-American creative producer, director, DP based in Barcelona. With a background in global brand strategy and advertising, she transitioned into documentary and impact filmmaking, working across Japan and Europe. She is also an impact ambassador at ShareDoc, a Creative Europe-funded documentary impact platform, and brings expertise in international development, fundraising strategy, and audience engagement to her production work.
Emi Ueyama is a Tokyo-based producer working primarily in documentary and independent cinema. Her produced films have premiered and screened at major international festivals, including IFFR, Berlin Forum, Busan, Hot Docs, and Jeonju, to name a few. She has been involved in numerous international co-productions between Japan, Korea, Brazil, Poland, and France, with projects selected for Cannes Docs, DOK Leipzig, IDFA Forum, and other major industry platforms. She has also collaborated on NHK documentaries.
Eunsol Cho is a filmmaker based in Seoul, South Korea. She began her career as a TV and web producer at Yonhap News Agency. While directing entertainment programs, she expanded into filmmaking. She began working as a producer with Our Drive (2024, Jeonju International Film Festival) and continues to develop her work through Colors of the Wind (in progress), which was shortlisted for the Whickers Film & TV Fund. She is also currently working on her first documentary, My Silent Brides.
An independent documentary filmmaker based in Hong Kong, who often turns toward his beloved home city, which he fears is gradually relinquishing the freedoms and values that set it apart from China.
His documentary short Letter Sent won 2nd prize at NTCDF 2021; His feature-length documentary Gone with Wind won the Hong Kong Documentary Award at HKIDF 2019.
Fanny Lehmann is a Paris-based French producer with experience in film and podcast production, particularly as a production manager. She worked on *The Wild One* and *Night of the Kings*, which premiered at Venice and represented Ivory Coast at the Oscars. She spent over two years at ARTE Radio producing podcasts. Selected for the Ludwigsburg-Paris Atelier in 2023, she trained internationally and produced a short film. In 2025, she founded Radical Dreamers.
Felicia Chen, known artistically as Dis Fig, is a US-born, Berlin-based music producer and performer who creates visceral, emotionally intense works through experimental sound design and world-building. Birthed from a personal exploration of her Chinese-Vietnamese heritage and personal family histories, Whispers That Echo is her inquiry into intergenerational trauma, cultural erasure, and the cathartic, healing power of film and sound. Her work has been presented internationally and featured in The Wire, The Quietus, and The Guardian.
Flora Linghwa Huang is a Taiwanese filmmaker and anthropologist whose intimate documentaries delve into migration, womanhood, and the quiet strength of human resilience. Her directorial projects, including The White Waters, have been supported by Women CIRCLE and TAICCA. As a producer, she finds great joy in shaping acclaimed projects alongside fellow creators, such as Scenes from Departure, which won the TIDF Grand Prize, and Voices of a Village, supported by the DMZ Docs Development Fund.
Gogu is a filmmaker based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He focuses on telling stories about Malaysian Indians, blending horror and humor through both provocative and poetic approaches. The shortfilm “Walay Balay” which he co-directed premiered at the 2024 Cannes Directors’ Fortnight. Gogu is also currently developing his first fiction feature film, “Kaali: Depth of Darkness,” which received the inaugural mylab FINAS Award and was featured at the 2021 Seapitch Bangkok and 2022 Film Bazaar Co-Production Market in India.
Hiroyuki Yoshihara is a Tokyo-based Korean-Japanese film producer. After graduating from Keio University, he began in television production and later studied fiction at the Film School of Tokyo. He joined TBS Sparkle in 2017, producing films for TBS Television. Since 2021, he has pursued graduate studies at Tokyo University of the Arts and founded Cloud11 Studios. His work includes Mishima: The Last Debate and the award-winning short National Route 7, as well as the upcoming feature Good Death.
Hui-Chen Huang is a self-taught filmmaker who learned her craft from life itself. Her debut feature, Small Talk, won the Teddy Award at the Berlinale. Currently developing her second feature, LOMÁ, she also serves as a producer, dedicated to collaborating with intriguing souls to tell captivating stories.
Huihui Lou is the founder of French production company Oui Production. She is a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and holds a Master’s degree in directing, producing, and screenwriting from Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Her work centers on intimate, cross-cultural narratives that examine identity, migration, and memory across both fiction and documentary forms. She is an IDFAcademy alumna and a selected participant in the Berlinale EFM Toolbox Program 2026.
Jeremy Luke Bolatag is a Filipino filmmaker whose works challenge the boundaries between documentary and fiction, exploring themes on identity, diaspora, and social issues, diving deep in marginalized and underrepresented communities. Jeremy earned his bachelor’s degree in Film at the University of the Philippines Diliman in 2018.
With a full scholarship, Jeremy completed his two-year master’s degree in Documentary Film Directing in 2023 (DocNomads) at LUCA School of Arts in Brussels. Jeremy is a Taurus, which is also very important.
Jewel Maranan is a documentary producer based in the Philippines. Her films interrogate histories of conflict, displacement, and colonial aftermath: Silent House (2022, IDFA, HotDocs), The Silhouettes (2020, Visions du reel), The Future Cries Beneath Our Soil (2018, DMZ Docs), and In the Claws of a Century Wanting (2017, DOK Leipzig). Her projects have received support from Sundance, IDFA Bertha Fund, Chicken&Egg, Purin Pictures, Doha Film Institute, Asian Cinema Fund, and Purin Pictures, among others.
Jin Jiang is a Chinese independent documentary filmmaker born in 1989 in Luoyang, China, currently based between Beijing and Tokyo. His work focuses on social observation and intimate portraiture. His films have screened at Berlin, Busan, IDFA, and RIDM. Republic won Best Documentary at BIFF, the Grand Prize at Image Forum, and the Grand Prize at RIDM’s international competition.
Karanjit is a visual artist and a musician. His work explores identity, migration, and collective memory in the Indian subcontinent with a particular focus on the Punjabi diaspora.
Karanjit graduated with a BFA in Photography and Imaging from NYU Tisch in 2017, where he documented resistance efforts by Tibetan refugees.
He is a founding member and Visual Director of EXCISE DEPT – a Hip-Hop collective that unpacks Indian identity through bold visual media and multilingual music.
She is an independent producer from Hong Kong, based in Taiwan. She was selected in the 2025 Berlinale EFM Toolbox Programme, 2025 IDFA Academy and 2026 EURODOC. Her documentary projects were selected to pitching forums such as CNEX CCDF, Docs by the Sea, DMZ Docs Production Pitch and Tokyo Docs. Her co-directed and produced film “Colour Ideology Sampling.mov”(2024) won the 61st Taipei Golden Horse Awards Best Documentary Short Film and South Taiwan Festival South Award.
Kumanavannan Rajendran (Kuma) is a Malaysian producer drawn to auteur-driven, slow cinema. Trained in law and shaped by years in television and independent production, he founded Om Sakthi Films in 2023. His work focuses on films rooted in the histories and lived experiences of Malaysia’s Tamil minority community, with current projects including documentary Araro Ariraro in post production, feature project Kaali as well as two short films titled Kairu and Maayappon in development.
Kwan Ling Mok is an award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker from Hong Kong. She is a Knight Wallace Fellow 2023-2024, and The VII Foundation Film Lab fellow 2026-2027. She is now directing her debut feature, A Thousand Winds, which was a recipient of the Asian Network of Documentary Fund at the Busan International Film Festival, the Golden Horse Film Festival Project Promotion and Sheffield DocFest MeetMarket.
Laksanapon Tarapan is a filmmaker based in Bangkok. She has worked as a Line Producer in short films: ONE TROPICAL RAIN OF LOVE AND GUILT, a co-production with KawanKawan Media and 185films which was selected for the short film competition at the 48th Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival.
She also directed short documentaries: Murmur through the walls, was participated in Docs by the Sea lab in 2024.
LIU Ren-feng is an independent Editor and Director. Her directed work , “Eviction and Beyond”（2023）, was nominated for Best Documentary Short Film at the 60th Golden Horse Awards. Her second short “Little Mirage”(2024) continues her observations and questions on housing issues, won the Golden Fireball at the Kaohsiung Film Festival
Kuala Lumpur-based film editor Lourdes Gason brings over a decade of expertise to narratives and documentaries. Driven by the core belief that emotional resonance is a story’s heartbeat, he excels at aligning technical precision with creative intention. His work includes the History Channel series Road to Nationhood (2016-19) and Between the Tides (2025). In 2026, he made his feature film editing debut with Between Arms, which premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam.
Lucie Rego co-founded Hutong Productions in 2018 with Pauline Tran Van Lieu. The company produces bold, socially engaged creative documentaries and fiction with strong international ambitions.
Before founding Hutong, Lucie worked for the CNC’s Aide aux Cinémas du Monde fund and collaborated with the French Embassy in Beijing on contemporary art projects.
Since its creation, Hutong Productions has developed and produced about 20 short and feature-length films.
Mala Reinhardt studied directing at Film University Babelsberg, Germany and previously studied ethnology in Cologne, New Delhi, and Kampala. Her work includes THE SECOND ATTACK (2018), screened at DOK Leipzig and Berlinale, and FAMILIAR PLACES (2024), which premiered at Locarno’s Semaine de la Critique. She is a Berlinale Talents alumna, German Films Face2Face Ambassador 2025, and a member of the European Film Academy.
Masaaki Niiyama is a Tokyo-based documentary filmmaker whose work focuses on long-term observational storytelling. His films explore personal growth and changing values through intimate human stories. He is currently directing two feature documentaries: one following young rakugo performers and another exploring the future of education in Japan.
Phạm Hoàng Miên is a Saigon-based writer and producer working across ethnography, documentary, and fiction to explore personal and collective traumas. Her practice focuses on the nuances of human connection, featuring collaborations with international platforms such as VICE and NOWNESS.
Mukesh Kumaravel is an Indian-born filmmaker and La Fémis graduate working in fiction and documentary. Trained as an engineer, he turned to cinema in 2014 and spent years in Mumbai as an assistant director on features, documentaries, and commercials. He joined La Fémis’s workshop in 2018 and entered directing program in 2020 with support from the Institut Français in India. His films have screened at Doclisboa, Sarlat, and Dolcevita. He is developing his first feature documentary and a fiction film.
Nathaniel Brown is an artist & filmmaker exploring the intersection of place, belonging, and community. His work has been supported by the Fulbright Foundation, the Pulitzer Center, the National Endowment of the Arts, and the Mellon Foundation; featured in The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Vice, Nowness, Vogue, and Dazed; and shown at festivals including DOC NYC, Hawaii, Big Sky, and Cleveland.
Nemo is an Indian writer-director, known for blending fiction and nonfiction, myth and reality in his storytelling. His films have been shown in film festivals around the world. He is currently working on his debut novel.
Nghiêm Quỳnh Trang is a Vietnamese filmmaker working between Prague and Hanoi. She came to cinema after studying political science and sevaral years working in TV journalism. Her work is shaped by living between places and by an interest in how larger social changes leave traces in intimate lives. She often returns to stories of migration, family memory, intergenerational distance, and and the complex search for belonging.
Nguyễn Hồng Quân is Head of Directing & Cinematography at the Hanoi Academy of Theatre and Cinema, with over 15 years’ experience directing films in Vietnam and internationally. His works include The Room (Silver Kite Award), The Safe (Best Short Film, Hanoi 48HFP), and the TV documentary series S-Vietnam (VTV1). He also produces and writes; his project Chú Văn was selected for the 2023 Busan APM, and A Theoretical Film was nominated at DOCfeed.
Nirartha Bas Diwangkara is a Balinese film director and producer. In 2025, he founded Ordo Film. In 2014, he was awarded a scholarship to study digital media with a filmmaking focus at Pierce College in Washington State (USA). Nirartha has produced two documentaries supported by the Ministry of Culture and Education of the Republic of Indonesia. His filmography includes fiction, animation, and documentary. He continues to explore taboo and socio-cultural themes rooted in Balinese identity.
Peerachai Kerdsint is a Bangkok-based filmmaker working across documentary and hybrid forms. His work explores everyday life and social change through long-term observation. His debut feature, The Isthmus (2013), co-directed with Sopawan Boonnimitra, premiered in New Currents at Busan International Film Festival. His latest documentary with Sopawan boonnimitra, First Cuts Are the Deepest (2026), had its World Premiere in the International Competition at Doc Edge Festival.
Independent film producer based in Hong Kong. Produced works include YELLOWING, won the Ogawa Shinsuke Prize at YIDFF; LOST COURSE, won the Best Documentary at the 53rd Taipei Golden Horse Awards; BLUE ISLAND, won the Best International Documentary Feature in HotDocs 2022 and Another Home , won the best documentary at Busan International Film Festival 2024.
Pham Thi Hao’s a filmmaker and editor specializing in independent Vietnamese cinema. Trained at the Ho Chi Minh Academy, Ateliers Varan, and La Fémis, she directs films focused on female perspectives and cinematic creativity. As a sought-after editor for arthouse projects, her credits include Madam Phung’s Last Journey, My Father-The Last Communist, At the Triangle Intersection. A co-founder of Varan Vietnam, Hao’s committed to fostering the local documentary scene while navigating the delicate distance between objective filmmaking and intimate storytelling.
Phượng Diễm Cao is a producer and writer/screenwriter who has authored several well-known preschool titles. She also works as a producer for the television programs broadcast on Vietnam National Broadcaster.
With her long-standing presence in the creative community, she maintains strong professional relationships with artists, cultural researchers, and experts across Vietnam. These deep connections provide a strong foundation for the development of culturally grounded projects including the documentary film currently in progress.
Polen Ly is a self-taught filmmaker. He was a director fellow at Asian Film Academy in Busan, South Korea, in 2018. His first featured documentary UNTIL THE ORCHID BLOOMS was premiered in IDFA, the Netherlands in 2024 and won Grand Prix for Asian Vision Competition at Taiwan International Documentary Festival in 2026. His latest fiction debut BECOMING HUMAN was premiered in Venice Film Festival 2025 and won Golden Hanuman at Jogja-Netpac Asian Film Festival, Indonesia, 2025.
Pony Ma is a film critic and the head of the program team at the Taipei Film Festival. Born and raised in Taipei, she had been one of the directors of the Taiwan Film Critics Society and was invited to serve as guest curator. In 2024, she co-founded Autumn Film Production as a producer, and provides festival strategy.
RAJAN KATHET is a Kathmandu-based filmmaker working in both fiction and documentary. He is an alumnus of the DOCNOMADS European Masters, Berlinale Talents, Global Media Makers, and the Video Consortium. His films No Winter Holidays (2023) and Bare Trees in the Mist (2019) have screened at prestigious festivals such as the Toronto International Film Festival, Seattle International Film Festival, Sheffield DocFest, Tampere Film Festival, Hong Kong IFF, Golden Apricot IFF, and Short Shorts Japan, among many others.
I am a researcher and a film worker – works in between the intersection of digital media, film, and anthropology. Personally, I have a strong interest in various forms of media, such as documentary films, photography, music, sound, and the internet (and its culture). A firm believer that media cannot escape from its context and issues that surrounds it. Currently based in between Jakarta, Amsterdam, and the internet.
Based in France and South Korea, SEO Jiyeon began writing stories for Hankyoreh Factstory after studying politics and journalism. Having long dreamed of running away, she found herself leaving. Studying art and literature in France, she continues to question what made her leave. In her short film Cacapipitalisme, she explored the boundaries between history and fiction. Recently, she has been drawn to stories that move beyond the hysteria of singularity, finding in everyday details the traces of a collective sensibility.
Shubo Liu is a visual artist and filmmaker who graduated from the School of Film Art at China Academy of Art. Her work is rooted in documentary images and local ecologies, extending into emotions and abstract memories.
Sin-yi Choi is an independent producer, researcher and curator from Hong Kong, currently a PhD candidate at the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong. She also served as a board member of Videotage and Unlock Dancing Plaza. She previously worked as a production manager for the documentary Blue Island (2022).
Sinae Ha is the founder of BODA MEDIA GROUP, a Seoul-based production house specializing in international co-productions that explore social issues through touching personal lenses.
Having produced acclaimed global feature documentaries and recently completing her second feature as a director, she joins My Silent Brides as a producer, bringing extensive global co-production expertise to the project.
Sopawan Boonnimitra is an independent filmmaker based in Bangkok with over two decades of experience in film and arts.
Her work focuses on identity, migration and collective memory, often exploring the relationship between individuals and social transformation.
She is currently Head of the Department of Motion Pictures and Still Photography at Chulalongkorn University, where she continues to support young filmmakers and develop critical approaches to filmmaking in Thailand.
Sophie Yi-Chia Fu is a Taipei-based filmmaker with a background in sociology and an MFA in Filmmaking. Her work explores immigration, womanhood, and identity through a personal lens. Her latest documentary, Thunder and Rosy Clouds, received funding from the National Culture and Arts Foundation, the New Taipei City Documentary Fund, and Jihlava IDFF. In 2022, she established Morpheus Film to develop independent fiction and documentary projects that articulate deeper meanings through intimate storytelling.
Sujin Lee’s work is grounded in the belief that even the most personal narratives do not accumulate in isolation. Inspired by theatre, visual arts, and cinema, she develops projects that explore the connections between individual stories and broader social realities. She is currently studying Arts Management at K-ARTS and served as Associate Producer on “Cruel Optimism” (Korean Competition, 27th Jeonju International Film Festival).
Trinh Dinh Le Minh’s a Vietnamese filmmaker and Fulbright scholar with an MFA in Film Production from University of Texas at Austin. Minh has directed several documentaries and produced My Father, The Last Communist (DMZ 2016). His debut narrative feature, Goodbye Mother, won awards like Best Narrative Feature at Reeling Film Festival 2020 and Audience Awards at Toronto Reel Asian Film Festival. His second feature, Invisible Evidence won Best Director at Vietnam Film Festival 2021.
Tynymgul Eshieva is a documentary filmmaker and media strategist with extensive experience in managing projects, campaigns, and content production. She brings her expertise in storytelling, media development, and strategic outreach to both local and globally relevant projects. Currently, she is working on her feature documentary, Longlive, womankind!, which follows the life and work of a human rights activist in Kyrgyzstan. Voices of Glaciers is her second project, she plays a key role in ensuring impactful international collaborations.
Wilfredo Manalang, founder of FUSEE, co-produced PLAN 75 (Cannes 2022 Camera d’Or Special Mention). Credits include BLUE ROOM (Netflix), TOPAKK (Locarno), DON’T CRY, BUTTERFLY (Grand Prize, Venice Critics’ Week 2024), and Canada’s ELSEWHERE AT NIGHT (Best Screenplay, Torino). He recently presented LAND OF EVANESCENCE at Cannes Docs 2026. An alumnus of EAVE TiesThatBind, APOSTLAB, DocsByTheSea, Asia Producers Network, and ATL Washington Filmworks, he served as Managing Director at ABS-CBN and Executive Director of the FDCP.
Wong Xiao Xuan is a Singaporean film producer whose works articulate the dialogue of queer and women’s narratives. She recently co-produced The Old Man And His Car, which premiered at the Tokyo International Film Festival, and her short Today’s Sunlight Falls Weakly On You was awarded Best Short Film at the Singapore Youth Film Festival. She has trained at Busan Asian Film School and Rotterdam Lab. She is now producing at Singapore-based production company Pōtocol.
Yanqi Chen, director, writer and sometimes editor, was born in Harbin, China. After graduating from London Film School in 2016, he went back to China and started to work on his first feature film named Day Tripper, which has been selected by the 39th Warsaw International Film Festival, the 7th Pingyao International Film Festival in 2023, and has won the Grand Prix of the 38th Fribourg International Film Festival in 2024.
Yash Zhang is a London-based filmmaker, mover, and tree lover, whose work explores gender, mental health, and futurity. Yash’s work in progress debut feature , Ma, Let’s Fly Together, has been selected for IDFA Project Space, Sheffield MeetMarket, and UnionDocs, etc. Yash’s short films and collaborations have been featured at
various festivals and exhibitions, including Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival (2025), Nowness(2024), Sheffield Doc Fest(2024), etc.
Yongle Wang is a writer, editor and filmmaker based in China. She earned her MFA from University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts. Passionate about projects that combine intimate perspective with bold artistic vision, she loves collaborating with creatives who continue to carve out space for expression in stifling environments and push beyond boundaries.
Started filmmaking at the age of 19, his debut film capturing Rohingya refugees won awards both in Japan and internationally. He has since produced video works documenting the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong and the battlefields of Ukraine. Having released numerous documentaries across both web and television platforms, he was honored with one of Japan’s most prestigious media awards in 2023. He is currently based in Japan.
XIAO was born in Yilan. She graduated from Graduate Institute of Film Studies at Taipei National University of the Arts. She directed a short film “We live Underground” which is broadcasted at NHK and Mirror TV in Taiwan.
Cinematographer and Editor. His works as a cinematographer include Talks Overnight, selected for the International Competition of the Festival des 3 Continents (Nantes, France, 2023), as well as Floating House, Ghost Cat, and Sleep Creek.