BIAF2024 International Competition Selection Committee
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- IM Chaerin | Director | South Korea
- Director IM is a Korean animation director who works on experimental animation that explores social issues such as sex and gender with fine craftsmanship, materials, and techniques. In 2017, she received a bachelor's degree in design from Seoul National University College of Fine Arts, and a master's degree in experimental animation from California Institute of the Arts in 2020. The director's short animations Flora (2018), Mate (2019), and Eyes and Horns (2021) were invited to compete at Annecy International Animation Film Festival, Animafest Zagreb, and Ottawa International Animation Festival. Her latest work I am a Horse (2022) won the special distinction prize at BIAF2022 and was invited to International Film Festival Rotterdam 2023.
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- KIM Somi | Journalist, Film Critic | South Korea
- A reporting team leader at the weekly film magazine 「Cine21」. She graduated from the Department of Theater and Film at Hanyang University and started her magazine career as a founding editor of the independent critique journal 「anno.」. After working as a curator at CGV Arthouse, she joined 'Cine21' in the fall of 2017. Outside the pages of the magazine, she occasionally acts as a mediator at events that connect filmmakers and audiences.
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- Eugene KIM | BIAF Program Director | South Korea
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- LEE Eunhwa | BIAF Associate Programmer | South Korea