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Mahmudaziizi41097@gmail.com

MAHMUD Aziizi has been fascinated by the power of artistic expression from a very young age. He co-directed a 30-minute play called Relapse at the National Theatre Festival Brunei 2023 and participated in the Asian Youth Theatre Festival Residency 2023 in Kuala Lumpur with 247 Studios. Currently, Aziizi works at a creative agency, AICREATIVV, as a creative designer and serves as the Co-founder and Chief Creative Officer for Kitani Kreatif, a social enterprise dedicated to creative cultural regeneration and heritage preservation. Aziizi’s goal is to create experimental, emotion-inducing, and thought-provoking works.

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rithykh48@gmail.com

Rithy SEK graduated from Norton University with a bachelor’s degree in Creative Multimedia in 2022. Currently, he is working at Westline Education Group Co. Ltd. as a media manager to operate media. He has expertise as a producer, a videographer, a photographer, and an editor. In 2023, he was a director of photography in a short film production at the Cambodia Film Commission. He is passionate about engaging in more challenging activities where he can enlarge his abilities and capability in the media production and film industries.

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klarissangeline.works@gmail.com

Angeline pursued a Diploma in Broadcast Media from LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore in 2021. In 2023, Angeline graduated with First Class Honors with a BA (Hons) in Film, double majoring in Directing and Production Design, from the same institution. Through her artistic expressions of narratives, Angeline tells stories that evoke femininity through effusive visual aesthetics and touch the human consciousness. With an unyielding passion for filmmaking, she has worked on numerous projects with different themes and tonalities, broadening her versatility and artistry.

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Konevilomb@gmail.com 

Konevilom PHACHOUMPHONH graduated from the National Institute of Fine Art, Laos with a major in Film and Animation in 2023. Now, he has been working in some production in Laos named JPEG Image Production(Documentary, Wedding, etc...).
He has an official short film called Alone(2020), screenwritten by his friend YO.
Amazingly, they got 3rd prize at the Lanxang Film Contest. Until now, he has joined many workshops and contests to develop his skills.

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sxhyxn1125@gmail.com

KIM Suhyun is studying at the Korea National University of Arts film faculty. During her childhood in Singapore, she developed a deep love for cinema by watching DVDs. After returning to Busan, she continued to immerse herself in films at the Busan Cinema Center. These experiences ignited her passion for storytelling and inspired her to pursue a career in filmmaking, with the desire to share meaningful stories with a broad audience through the power of film. Now with the dream of being a Director/ Producer, she is on a journey to seek stories that can move and inspire people.

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rizqyazed@gmail.com

Rizq Yazed is an artist and programmer based in London, currently a student at the University of the Arts London doing a BA in Fine Arts: Computational Arts. His overall practice inhabits web-based art, film, and installation experiences that establish subversive takes on contemporary media and internet culture and challenge them in fun and light-hearted ways. Rizq’s ongoing project, Malaysian Internet Archive, is an effort to collect net art/new media artworks and writings by Malaysian artists who occupy and traverse the realm of Internet culture.

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jtrtrinidad@gmail.com

JT Trinidad is a filmmaker and critic based in Manila. Trinidad’s debut documentary short As If Nothing Happened(2020) competed at the London Short Film Festival.
Their debut narrative short The River that Never Ends(2022) won Best Southeast Asian Short Film at the 34th Singapore International Film Festival and the Student Award at the 18th JOGJA-NETPAC Asian Film Festival. As an alumnus of Ricky Lee’s Screenwriting Workshop, Mowelfund Film Institute, and the US-based nomadic film school Film Futura, he envisions using cinema to organize communities.

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joel.ruien@gmail.com

Joel NEO is a Singaporean producer drawn to female-led narratives that interrogate the realities we exist within. She holds a BFA in Filmmaking with Honours (Highest Distinction) and is a recipient of the Singapore Media Industry Scholarship. In 2023, Joel participated in the Locarno Film Festival’s BaseCamp IV and represented Momo Film Co. at the Berlinale Co-Production Market 2024. She produced Ash Goh Hua’s Full Month (Berlinale Short Form Station 2024) and is the assistant producer on A Useful Ghost and Duong Dieu Linh’s Don’t Cry, Butterfly (Venice Critics’ Week 2024).

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kaowpanpat@gmail.com

Natanporn PATTANA is a freelance filmmaker from Thailand. With the dream of becoming a film director, she decided to study film at Bangkok University. After graduation, she joined a filmmaking program in Thailand, the Young Director Award Season 2 from Bangkok Bank. Last year, she made a short film, Persona(2023), which enabled her to secure a substantial budget for her next project, Geborgenheit(2023). She does not want to forget how much fun she had while making films and wishes to keep that feeling to alive. In the future, she will continue to love telling stories and seeing her narratives come to life through film.

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phamminhphuong122005@gmail.com

Phuong is a filmmaker based in Hanoi, Vietnam. She recently graduated from UWC Mahindra College India, where she also specialized in Film Studies in the International Baccalaureate Diploma. She researches the intersectionality of gender and cinema and seeks to explore experimental/unconventional modes of storytelling. She believes the meaning of cinema lies beyond mere recreation, but rather a powerful means of shedding light on unspoken narratives around the world. Through the intersection of film and theater, Phuong explores the human experience through the eyes of marginalized/underrepresented communities.