AEKAPHONG SARANSATE (Thailand)


Aekaphong Saransate (born 4 September 1992) is Thai film director/editor based in Bangkok-Songkhla. His debut feature documentary, Breaking the Cycle (2024) is the first Thai film that portrays modern Thai political landscape. The film premiered at the 31st Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival and was a Tim Hetherington Award nominee at Sheffield DocFest.
His edited features include Soil Without Land (2019) and Hours of Ours (2024). Both competed in international competition at Visions du Réel, and later were screened in several festivals worldwide.

KEIKO SEI (Japan)

Keiko Sei is a writer, curator and educator in media art/activism.
Her curatorial projects include "The Media Are With Us!: The Role of Television in the Romanian Revolution" (Budapest, 1990), "Eastern Europe TV & Politics" (Buffalo New York, 1993), "POLITIK-UM/new Engagement," (Prague, 2002), “Re-designing East,” (Stuttgart, Gdansk, Budapest, Seoul, 2009-2013). She writes for publications worldwide including springerin (Austria), worked as an editor of documenta 12 magazine and coordinator of Southeast Asia region for “documenta 12 magazines project”, and has published books including "Von der Burokratie zur Telekratie " (Germany) and "Terminal Landscape" (Czech Republic).
She has given numerous workshops worldwide and taught at schools including FaVU VUT Brno (Czech Republic) and HFG Karlsruhe (Germany). Currently she works to provide film and video education in Myanmar, which she started in 2002, and has helped establishing Wathann Film Festival/Institute.

MANOTHAM TIAMTIEBRAT (Thailand)

Manotham Tiamtiebrat (casual 'Pop') despite a long time career, he still regards himself as a young and new generation movie critic who exposed and expanding a new frontier in writing film review, that pointing out there are far more boundaries and dimensions of cinema beyond the main-stream. Besides working restlessly on writing yet he never seems to get tired, also working as a lecturer for training work-shop programs and in film-school, beside his enthusiasm to discover new talents as a jury member in film festivals.