Film director. After she made two short films Sweeter Than Candy (2002) and After Shaving (2003), she directed Passerby #3 and this won the Best Asian-Middle Eastern Film Award in ''Wind of Asia'' section at Tokyo International Film Festival, JJ-Star Award in Korean Feature Film Competition at Jeonju International Film Festival and 2010 Female Film Professional of the Year (Director/Scenario).

She won the Excellence Prize from 2004 Cine 21 Film Critic Award. She studied art theory at Korea National University of Arts and currently works at a publishing company.

Programmer of IWFFIS. She studied film theory, cultural studies, East Asian studies and comparative literature at K''ARTS in Seoul, CSCS in Bangalore, India, and Graduate School of Columbia University in NY. She participated in producing documentaries such as The Road to the Baghdad (2003) and Woman of the Sun: Her First Song (2004).

Professor at Meiji Gakuin University. After she received a Ph.D in film at UCLA, she has researched on Hichcock, Max Ophuls and Chantal Akerman as well as post-war women representation and actresses. She has been a great fellow of IWFFIS since long before. She was a section programmer of 2004 International Women''s Film Festival in Seoul and is a program advisor for the section, Asian Spectrum in 2012.

An independent Filmmaker, Poet and an Actor. Her works include three published poetry anthologies and a dozen films in genres, documentary, fiction and experimental poem films. She has Charles Wallace Art Award to her credits. Her documentary work includes Mathamma (2003), Break the Shackles (2004), Connecting Lines (2005), Waves After Waves (2006) and Goddesses (2008).

Professor of Women Studies at Bangmok College of Basic Studies, Myongji University. She published Choice, Korea is Army and Story of Gender Equality. She is interested in researching on militarism, masculinity, fear of sexual violence and drama analysis.

BOO Ji-young graduated from Ewha Womans University and studied filmmaking at Korean Academy of Film Arts. Her feature debut film Sisters on the Road (2008) and Nima, a segment of If You Were Me 5 the anthology film are screened 2009 and 2011 of IWFFIS respectively.

Born in 1975 and studied Film at Seoul Institute of the Arts. He directed 17 mid-length and short films such as How to Operate a Polaroid Camera (2004), Slowly (2005) and Waiting (2007). Lovers (2008) is a collection of his short films for a theatrical release and his feature-length debut Come, Closer (2010).