Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Andika is a film student at Jogja Film Academy. Excited about new media art and social issues, he is currently active as a film director at Loste Studio and as an art researcher for the Jogja Biennale.

Jakarta, Indonesia

Bintang has always enjoyed watching and analyzing movies. Now studying cinema studies at the Jakarta Institute of Arts, he is attempting to find a balance between being behind the camera and being behind the keyboard.

Bali, Indonesia

Currently a film student at Universitas Multimedia Nusantara, Shara’s interests range from relationship dynamics and gender equality to pop culture. On an endless journey of self-discovery, she cherishes life in 24 frames per second on the route.

(she/her)

Tangerang, Indonesia

Vira is an Indonesian Language and Literature Education student at UIN Jakarta that is exploring her passion for writing. She aspires to contribute to Indonesian literature.

Film Programmer

Canada

Kelly Lui is an arts worker with an interest in prioritizing care practices, interrogating sustainability within creative careers, and supporting socially-engaged multimedia projects. Besides her roles as the Shorts Programmer at the Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival and the Distribution Coordinator at Ouat Media, she’s a founding collective member of TACLA and loves noodles.

LINK HIGHLIGHT:
Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival: https://www.reelasian.com/
Ouat Media: https://www.ouatmedia.com/
TACLA: https://www.tacla.ca/

Film Commissioner

Sámi people, Norway

Liisa Holmberg works as the Film Commissioner, at the International Sámi Film Institute (ISFI), in Norway. She is a Sámi filmmaker who originally comes from the Finnish side of Saamiland. Since 1994, she has worked in the film business as a producer, production manager, and film consultant. The main part of her work as a Film Commissioner is to support  Sámi and other Indigenous filmmakers in Alaska, Canada, Greenland, Sápmi, and Russia through Arctic Indigenous Film Fund (AIFF).

During the years 2008-to 2017, Holmberg worked as the Rector of the Sámi Education Institute in Inari, Finland. The purpose of the Sámi Education Institute is to develop Sámi languages, cultures, and livelihoods. From 2016-to 2021,  Holmberg was nominated as the Chair of the Assembly of the University of the Arctic (UArctic), a network of 203 Universities.  She is also the  Chair of the Board at the  Sámi Museum Siida, Inari Finland.

www.isfi.no

contact: liisa@isfi.no

Filmmaker

USA

Jackson Kiyoshi Segars is a Japanese-American filmmaker and ecosocialist activist living in New York. As a co-founder at Video Horse Films, he has produced, directed, and edited work that has been exhibited at prestigious venues such as SXSW, Locarno International Film Festival, Palm Springs Shortsfest, Vimeo Staff Picks, and more. His film Kimchi won the Minikino Film Week Best Short Film of the Year award in 2018. He continues to make films in New York and advocate for a more equitable and just world.

Writer & Filmmaker

Melbourne, Australia

CLARISSA JACOBSON is the writer, producer, and creator of the multi-award-winning comedy/horror short – Lunch Ladies – based on her feature. The film has been in more than one hundred festivals including France’s Clermont-Ferrand, South Korea’s Bucheon Fantastic, Amsterdam’s Imagine Fest, and Palm Springs International. Not only has Lunch Ladies won forty-five competition awards, it secured top sales rep Ouat Media, and garnered international distribution from Canal+, Amazon’s Prime Video, Kanopy, ALTER, Argo, Dark Matter TV, Troma Now!, Barcelona TV3, and more. Clarissa also developed an extensive social media platform for the film, designed a website, (lunchladiesmovie.com), and wrote more than two hundred blogs.

Programmer & Filmmaker

Vietnam

Marcus Manh Cuong Vu is a filmmaker and programmer. Previously, he was the festival director of Yxine Film Fest (2010-2014).

Writer 

Indonesia

Writer, Anthropologist, and Filmmaker. He is one of the founders of MondiBlanc Film Workshop, a scholarship-based film workshop. He has also been a film crew in the United States and an International Video Journalist at a US news agency.

In 2020, Nosa was actively involved as a host at various events at Minikino Film Week 6, including the production of the Kopi Selem podcast at the festival. Now he focuses on teaching and developing the video and undercurrent film industry in Jakarta. This year Nosa joins the programmer Indonesia Raja 2021, for the Jakarta area.

email: nosanormanda@gmail.com
instagram: @eseinosa

Head of Documentary Dream Center

Japan

Fujioka Asako has worked with Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival since 1993 as Coordinator, Director of the Tokyo Office, and now serves on the Board of Directors. As head of Documentary Dream Center, she began organizing film workshops in various Asian destinations in 2009 and launched the retreat program Yamagata Documentary Dojo in 2018. She supports Japanese film liaisons internationally and aims to foster documentaries, their makers, and audiences through international exchange. She is a producer of Nude at Heart (2021, dir: Okutani Yoichiro).