서울국제여성영화제

SHIN Eun-shil

Film Critic

SHIN Eun-shil curated programs at the Seoul Eco Film Festival, Cinema Digital Seoul Film Festival, and EBS International Documentary Festival among others. She is the co-author of a number of published works including; The Korean 100 Films; The Independent Movie of the 21st Century; Jerzy Skolimowski and translated Duras / Godard Dialogues in Korean. She served as a jury member for the Experimental Film & Video Festival in Seoul (EXiS), Festival Film Dokumenter (FFD) in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Indie Film Fest Busan and Seoul Independent Animation Festival, etc.. She is currently a lecturer at Korea National University of Arts.

SOHN Su-hyun

Actor

Actor SOHN Su-hyun has maintained a strong relationship with the SIWFF through her films Frontman (2020), (BLANK) (2021), and An Ordinary Day (2023). She will meet the audience this year with Lucky, Apartment (2024). In 2020, she received the Gender Equality Culture Award for the Emerging Female Artist of the Year. In 2022, she was appointed as a public relations committee for the Korea Foundation for Women to promote women’s rights. She also directed short films Free-lancer (2020) and How to Fix the Fan (2020). She has been active in various fields, such as writing essays on veganism, to advocate for positive change.

Zippy KIMUNDU

Director

Zippy Kimundu is an award-winning Kenyan filmmaker and educator. She received her Masters in Fine Arts from New York University- TischAsia, and has worked on both fiction and Non-Fiction projects in over 20 countries globally. She wrote and co-directed a short Documentary, a fork, a spoon & a KNIGHT with renowned director Mira Nair, and was the assistant editor on the Disney Film Queen of Katwe. In 2014, she founded afrofilmsinternational.com, a women-led Film and TV production company and creative’s collective based in Kenya, working to ignite political consciousness, and action, across continents.

SON Sinae

Programmer, SIWFF

SON Sinae debuted as a film critict after winning the Rookie of the Year Award from the Korea Film Critics Association in 2016. She is a contributor of the film webzine REVERSE and the magazine FILO, and a member of the Criticism Division of the Korea Independent Film Association.

LIM Jisun

Director

Born in 1992, she studied film directing at the Korea National University of Arts. She directed the short film NOISE (2017) and co-directed her first feature film KIM MIN-YOUNG OF THE REPORT CARD (2021) with her friend, which is about the friendship of three young women who have just turned twenty.

CHAI Heesuk

Film Critics

Chai HeeSuk CHAI received her Ph.D. from Chung-Ang University The Graduate School of Advanced Imaging Science, Multimedia & Film, Department of Imaging Science and Arts with the thesis, “Cinema as 'Becoming Other' and Production of Truth: Cinema-Verite of Kim Dong-ryeong, Park Gyeong-tae and Pedro Costa”. She worked as a programmer at the DMZ International Documentary Film Festival from 2022 to 2023. She continues to ponder the matters of fiction and cinematic truth, and cinema as 'commons'.

HWANG Hei-rim

Programmer, SIWFF

Hei-rim HWANG was a staff writer at the weekly film magazine Cine 21 for six years from 1997, and has been writing for various publications since. After studying Film Studies at Birkbeck, University of London, she worked as a programmer at the Seoul Eco Film Festival from 2006 to 2011. She has been working for several film festivals, including Seoul Independent Film Festival and Seoul Intl. Architecture Film Festival, and since 2015, for Seoul Intl. Food Film Festival. As an independent producer, she has worked on feature-length documentaries such as Sanda (2013), The Truth Shall Not Sink with Sewol (2014) and The Voice of the Voiceless (in production). Co-managing director and producer at the film production/distribution company Metaplay, she has distributed several films such as The Running Actress (2017) and Cats’ Apartment (2020).