KOMTOUCH NAPATTALOONG (Thailand)


Exploring identity deconstructions, belonging anxieties, migration narratives, and historical translations, artist filmmaker Komtouch Dew NAPATTALOONG's latest video piece, 'NO EXORCISM FILM,' competed at CPH:DOX 2024 for the NEW:VISION award. His debut feature documentary, 'HOURS OF OURS,' premiered at the Visions du Réel 2023 International Competition.
A 2016 Abbas Kiarostami Filmmaking in Cuba Workshop participant and a 2024 Berlinale Talents participant, his works have been showcased at international festivals such as JeonjuIFF, 68th BFI London Experimenta, Visions du Réel, SingaporeIFF, Festival Film Dokumenter Jogja, Mar Del Plata, and Thai Video and Short Film Festival.
Additionally, his works have been featured at the Bangkok Biennial, Protocinema's A Few In Many Places Bangkok exhibition, and Thailand Biennale's Open World Cinema. He is the co-founder of Rare Occupant, an audio-visual works production company and services based in Thailand.

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.