LIM Daehyung

Lim Daehyung is a Korean writer and director whose work includes Merry Christmas Mr. Mo (2016), Moonlit Winter (2019), and the TVING original series LTNS (2024). His debut feature Merry Christmas Mr. Mo won the NETPAC Award at Busan International Film Festival 2016, Best New Director award at Busan Film Critics Association Award 2018, and Best New Director Award at Wildflower Film Awards 2018. His sophomore Moonlit Winter was selected as the closing film at Busan International Film Festival 2019, and received Best Screenplay and Best Director at Korean Association of Film Critics Association Awards 2020 and Best Screenplay and Best Director awards at Blue Dragon Film Awards 2021.

Constance TSANG

Constance Tsang is a Chinese American filmmaker based in New York. She graduated from Columbia University with an MFA in Screenwriting and Directing. Her first feature film Blue Sun Palace premiered at Cannes Critics’ Week 2024, and won the French Touch Prize of the Jury.

YAMANAKA Yoko

Born in 1997 in Nagano, Japan, Yamanaka Yoko taught herself filmmaking after dropping out of Nihon University’s Film Department. Her debut feature Amiko (2017) won the Audience Award at Pia Film Festival 2017, and the following year, at the age of 20, Yamanaka became the youngest ever feature film director to be invited to the Berlin International Film Festival. Yamanaka’s sophomore feature Desert of Namibia (2024) was selected as part of the Directors’ Fortnight section at the Cannes Film Festival and won the FIPRESCI International Critics’ Award.