HAN Sun Hee

Former editor-in-chief of ‘Korean Film Technology’, Producer, KOREA

Scott Sungwoo KIM

Masterimage 3D Asia. LLC.,
3D Cinema Solutions, Vice President, KOREA

Equan CHOE

Film Director, Professor at Soongsil University,  KOREA

KANG Won Do

Samsung Electronics, Mobile Communication Business, Director, Product Strategy Team for Gear VR, KOREA

Stephen CREMIN

Film Business Asia Publisher United Kingdom

Stephen CREMIN is the publisher of Film Business Asia, a movie trade publication that he co-founded in 2010. He has been working in the business for more than 20 years, directing the London Pan-Asian Film Festival in 1998, the same year he distributed Iwai Shunji's April Story and published a two-volume reference book about Japanese cinema. He continues to work for film festivals, and is currently a senior programmer of the New York Asian Film Festival and consulting for Far East Film Festival in Udine, Italy. He is based in Beijing.

Mike HOSTENCH

Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival Deputy Director Spain

Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival, Deputy Director, SPAIN His career has always been related to the film industry. First in distribution, working for companies such as Virgin and Gorgon Video, and afterwards in festivals, film production and distribution. Mike HOSTENCH combines nowadays his position as Deputy Director of the Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival’ of Catalonia, with writing and producing films (mostly genre), in joint ventures with different companies from around the world. His last film as executive producer is Can Evrenol’s Baskin, one of the most eagerly awaited horror films of 2015. His most recent projects are the Oribuanime, a Japanese and Korean animation distribution operation for the US and Canada, and the Phonetastic Sitges Mobile Film Festival, an international festival for short-films shot and post-produced with mobile devices, and several other projects designed to internationalize Sitges Festival. Mike HOSTENCH is also co-producer of Hollybrut a mash-up program for Paramount Channel. Mike HOSTENCH has written four books on Asian and horror films, and contributes to movie magazines and web sites. He is also the scriptwriter of long features such as Beneath Still Waters (2004) and Asmodexia (2014). HOSTENCH speaks English, Catalan and Spanish, and it is struggling to pass Level 4 out of 9 of his Korean studies.

Jean NOH

Screen International, Deputy Asia Director& Korea Correspondent Korea

Jean Noh is Deputy Asia Editor & Korea Correspondent at Screen International and Screendaily.com. She’s been with the UK-based global film trade magazine since 2005.
She started working in the film industry in 1998 at sales agency Mirovision, worked at BIFF’s co-production market PPP (now APM), was a manager in the Korean Film Council’s International Promotion Dept., and a global projects development producer at CJ Entertainment.
Noh has also written for Cahiers du Cinema, written and edited for Cine21 and Korean Cinema Today, and spoken on BBC radio and other broadcasts. She won the Korean Film Reporters’ Association Award in 2012 and was a Nominations Advisor to the Asian Film Awards in 2012 to 2014. She has also translated around 30 Korean films into English including Park Chan-wook’s Sympathy for Lady Vengeance and Kim Jee-woon's A Bittersweet Life.

JOHN HEINSEN

Bunnygraph Entertainment CEO& Executive Producer USA

John and his company Bunnygraph Entertainment, work with writers, talent, and technologists to create serialized formats for television, interactive/web and mobile platforms in what he calls ‘Storytelling through Advanced Content’. Recent projects include the 86th Academy Awards (Trans media Producer) and the independent film Lone Hunter, which premiered at the Los Angeles Asia Pacific Film Festival and was selected for the Short Film Corner at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.  John is a veteran of the FOX Broadcasting Company, International Creative Management (ICM), and Castle Rock Entertainment. He serves as Vice President, New Media for the Producers Guild of America (PGA) and sits on the Executive Committee of the Producers Peer Group of the Television Academy. John is a Graduate of the AFI Conservatory and lives in Los Angeles.

Patrick FRATER

Variety, Asia Bureau Chief United Kingdom

Patrick FRATER has over 20 years of experience writing about and analyzing the international film industry, with publications including Variety, Screen International and The Hollywood Reporter.
He was Asia editor of Variety between 2005 and 2009 and re-joined the publication in July 2013. In 2010, he co-founded regional film trade publication Film Business Asia and consultancy firm F Media.
Based in Hong Kong, FRATER travels widely within the Asia-Pacific region, and is a regular radio pundit, conference host and public speaker.

Jonathan KIM

Hanmac Culture Corporation CEO Korea

Veteran producer Jonathan KIM has served two terms as the Chairman of the Korean Film Producer’s Association. With the career in the Korean film industry that span over 25 years, KIM has produced over 20 motion picture films. He has recently concluded his appointment as an executive-level film consultancy role at South Korean entertainment conglomerate CJ E&M where he played an integral part in success of Masquerade and A Wedding Invitation.
His 2004 blockbuster Silmido, based on the true story of a team of South Korean commandos trained to assassinate the North Korean President, blew away with all records with 11 million box office tickets sold, representing one-quarter of the South Korean population. In 2004, Mr. KIM was awarded the Daejong Award for Best Executive Producer, the Korean equivalent of Oscar.
A member of Korea/Japan Culture Exchange Committee and an International advisor to the Hong Kong Asian Financing Forum (HAF), KIM has also been an advocate of intra-Asian co-productions. A regular speaker at various International Film & Contents industry forums, he sells Korean contents as cool and the most vibrant industry in Asia.

Jonathan KIM

Hanmac Culture Corporation CEO Korea

Veteran producer Jonathan KIM has served two terms as the Chairman of the Korean Film Producer’s Association. With the career in the Korean film industry that span over 25 years, KIM has produced over 20 motion picture films. He has recently concluded his appointment as an executive-level film consultancy role at South Korean entertainment conglomerate CJ E&M where he played an integral part in success of Masquerade and A Wedding Invitation.
His 2004 blockbuster Silmido, based on the true story of a team of South Korean commandos trained to assassinate the North Korean President, blew away with all records with 11 million box office tickets sold, representing one-quarter of the South Korean population. In 2004, Mr. KIM was awarded the Daejong Award for Best Executive Producer, the Korean equivalent of Oscar.
A member of Korea/Japan Culture Exchange Committee and an International advisor to the Hong Kong Asian Financing Forum (HAF), KIM has also been an advocate of intra-Asian co-productions. A regular speaker at various International Film & Contents industry forums, he sells Korean contents as cool and the most vibrant industry in Asia.

John DIETZ

VFX Specialist & Producer China

John DIETZ is a respected visual effects supervisor, producer and executive level manager. He has led teams in the USA, Australia, and China on movies that range from studio blockbusters to
micro budget independents. John has worked in Beijing since 2012 and has creatively produced, supervised or consulted on projects such Jiang Wen's Gone With The Bullets, Sun Zhou's Impossible, Deng Chao's Break up Guru, John Woo's The Crossing, Xu Zheng's Lost In Hong Kong, Renny Harlin's Skiptrace, and the People's Car Project that won the Cannes Gold Lion in advertising. John is now onto his 13th feature film in mainland China. John began his career with Oscar winning studio Rhythm & Hues in Los Angeles, rising from lighting artist to CG Supervisor on films such as Babe, Mouse Hunt, Green Mile and Hollow Man. John later joined Rising Sun Pictures, where he became the Senior VFX Supervisor, as well as time spent in the roles of Head of Production and VFX Producer on The Harry Potter Series, Charlotte's Web, Where The Wild Things Are, Terminator 4, 28 Weeks Later, Hunger Games, Wolverine and many more.