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 (in short & casual, 'Pop') despite a long time in his career, but he still regards himself as a young and new generation movie critic who d exposed and expanding a new frontier in writing film review contributions, that there re far more boundaries of cinema beyond main-stream outputs. Besides working restlessly on writing yet hed never seems to get tired, he is still a lecturer for training work-shop programs and film-school, he is also enthsiaste in looking for new talents as a jury member in compettitiveness in film festivals.

CHANTANA TIPACHART (Thailand)

Chantana Tiprachart Was born in 1991, Kalasin, Thailand Chantana Tiprachart is an Isaan (Northeastern) person by birth. She spent her younger days grown and raised in Kalasin before continuing her higher study in Communication Arts, Advertising and Marketing Communications major, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Burapha University. Chantana has a high interest in movies about social issues and cultures that convey thoughts and beliefs of the people in search for specific identities in each area. These interests drive Chantana to finally find the deeply-rooted social-related problems where she uses filmmaking to provoke conversations in a hope for society to mutually live and understand one another.

With the belief that movies can change the society, or their inner thoughts, at the very least. Chantana has video installation art, Lai-Torn, exhibited at Bangkok art biennale2020. 2019, Chantana started the project ‘Nha-Harn’ which was released in theatres in Thailand and Laos on May 9th, 2019. Nha-Harn expands the scope of understanding towards contemporary Isaan culture that somehow doesn’t freeze itself in time. It talks about culture, ways of life, teenagers’ belief in Morlam; from the Morlam dancing in front of the stage, a so-called ‘Nha-Harn’ dance or ‘Mua-Nha-Harn,’ which vividly and cheerfully reflect the adaptation of Morlam in today’s world. The movie also displays the ever-changing dynamic culture of Isaan culture in various angles.

Besides Nha-Harn, Chantana also involves in many other social-related movies e.g. feature film “The Otherness” which was selected as Artist in Residency in the Objectifs Film Residency, Singapore (Thailand, 2015). She an assistant director the movie “Motel Mist,” directed by Prabda Yoon (Thailand, 2015). She also an assistant director the movie “Ten Years Thailand: Sunset” which was directed by Aditya Assarat (Thailand, 2017).

Today, Chantana is based in Bangkok, Thailand and continues her work as a producer for TV series and dramas at GMM Studios International, and she is also pre-producing her 3rd feature-film length that released in 2019-2020.