Justin worked for Hyde Park Imagenation, VH1, Fox Searchlight, The Village Voice and the International Film Festival Rotterdam before returning to Singapore to produce award-winning social welfare broadcast documentaries and narrative feature films with a global perspective. He has since worked with UBS and Pictet & Cie in Singapore to structure viable alternative asset funds for factoring and gap financing of media projects around Asia for various platforms and philanthropic causes. He is a co-founder of the Southeast Asian Audio-Visual Association (SAAVA), a non-profit network seeking to unify media producers, creative entrepreneurs, and investors around ASEAN, and is also a member of the EAVE network of European producers. Most recently, Justin co-founded the Southeast Asian Film Financing (SAFF) Forum, the region’s biggest media financing platform that engages and educates stakeholders from both the creative and financial sectors in developing modern modes of entertainment financing. He is currently the Principal and Managing Partner of the Aurora Media Capital fund.

John and his company Bunnygraph Entertainment, work with writers, talent, and technologists to create serialized formats for television, interactive/web and mobile platforms in what he calls “Storytelling through Advanced Content”.  After completing a three year run as Transmedia Producer/Showrunner for the Academy Awards (Oscar.com), John now focuses on the development of a range of TV and film projects in both the US and around the world.  John is a veteran of the FOX Broadcasting Company, International Creative Management (ICM), and Castle Rock Entertainment.
John recently completed a two year term as Vice President, New Media for the Producers Guild of America (PGA) and sits on the Executive Committee of the Producers Peer Group of the Television Academy. In addition to BIFAN, his mentoring activities this year include the ConTech Academy (MonteCarlo), MediaZEN (Lithuania) and StoryTek (Estonia). John is a Graduate of the American Film Institute (AFI) Conservatory and lives in Los Angeles.
 

Yukie KITO started her career at JVC Entertainment in Los Angeles.  In 2004 she joined Enter-tainment Farm in Tokyo. The firm partnered with Fox Searchlight and India’s UTV to finance Mira NAIR’s  The Namesake KITO co-produced.  She then went on to produce Wayne WANG’s A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, which won the Golden Shell at San Sebastian International Film Festival in 2007.  KITO also produced Kiyoshi KUROSAWA’s acclaimed Tokyo Sonata which premiered at the 2008 Cannes International Film Festival and won the Jury Prize in the Un Certain Regard. The film also won Asian Film Awards’ Best Picture in 2009 in Hong Kong. KITO recently produced MIFUE: The Last Samurai, a documentary about Japan’s legendary actor Toshiro MIFUNE, directed by Steven OKAZAKI. It premiered at the 2015 Venice International Film Festival. She reteamed with Wayne WANG for While the Women Are Sleeping  starring BEAT (KITANO) Takeshi and it premiered at the 2016 Berlin International Film Festival.
 

Vincent NGO graduated with an MFA from UCLA Film School in 1993. His thesis script – Hancock – opened July 2nd 2008, starring Will SMITH and produced by Michael MANN. Vincent has worked closely with director Tony SCOTT as a script doctor for over ten years, including adapting The Warriors for MTV and Paramount Pictures. He has developed feature projects for Warner Bros, Universal, Dreamworks and Fox. He has developed television projects for FOX, CBS, ABC, DISNEY and for producer Jerry BRUCKHEIMER on the CW NETWORK. Currently, he is producing a feature film The  Lose  for  Fox International and is writing an original spec TV show for Casey Silver Productions.
 

Yoshihiro NISHIMURA Born in 1967, Tokyo. He is working as a special make-up artist, moldmaker supervisor, Film director, etc. Directorial debut Tokyo Gore Police (2008). There is an exhibition in the Film Festival of 73 things around the world, Which won five of the Film Festival, is international attention. The main work was in charge of the special molding, Riaru onigokko (Sono Sion Director / 2015), The Machine Girl (Noboru Iguchi Director / 2008).  L change the world (Hideo Nakata Director / 2008), Cold Fish (Sono Sion Director / 2011) , Attack on Titan (Shinji Higuchi Director / 2015), Shin Godzilla (Hideaki Anno, Shinji Higuchi Co-Director / 2011). Director’s latest work is Torakage starring Takumi Saito, (2015), Now preparing for the release Kodocu meatball machine
 

After growing up in Dallas, TX Charlie REFF moved to glorious Southern California for film school at Chapman University & The University of Southern California. While in school he worked full-time jobs at 'Entertainment Tonight' covering upcoming film releases followed by a marketing job at specialty film distributor Tartan Films USA (Oldboy, Red Road, A Tale Of Two Sisters). Once he graduated he jumped from the sinking ship that was Tartan Films USA to join the acquisitions department at Paramount Vantage (There Will Be Blood, Babel, The Foot Fist Way). He left the turmoil of that company only to join another sinking ship formally known as Peace Arch. Charlie eventually joined the Sundance Film Festival as the assistant to the newly promoted Director of Programming in 2009. He is currently a Senior Programmer for the festival with a focus in U.S. fiction, the NEXT section and the Midnight section. He also programs a film & music festival called Sundance NEXT FEST in downtown Los Angeles at the original United Artists movie palace from the 1930s.
 

ZHANG Tongdao is a professor in the School of Arts and Media, Beijing Normal University, and the director of Documentary Center, BNU. He is a filmmaker, his documentary Kids Kingdom (2009, award winner of Gold Panda prize), Once Upon a Time in Bussière’s Garden (2015, award winner of Gold Panda prize, Chinese American Film Festival). And he is the author to Documentary Masters£¨Nangfang Daily Publishing house 2003£©, Observations on Chinese Televisions (China Film Publishing house 2002). He has published Chinese Documentary Blue Book since 2009.  He is currently working on documentary production and the study of Chinese documentary.