The 21st Seoul Independent Animation Festival

Seoul Indie-AniFest202518. SEP(THU).2025 ~ 23. SEP(TUE).2025

10th (2014)

Preliminary Jury
  • 심사위원
    Kang Min-ji

    First Flight Selection Committee

    Aftergraduating from Film Animation at Hanseo University in 2006, she startedworking on animations. She likes handwork systems including drawings on paper,stop-motion animation and sand animation. She also enjoys making experimentalanimations with mixed animation technologies. With her graduate animation work<A pimple> in 2006, she has created <A piece of paper> (2008),<Myo-A> (2010), <Natural Urban Nature> (2011) and <SouvenirAnimation>(2012), and her works won some awards were screened at domesticand international animation festivals and Audio-Vidal Festival. Works as aboard member of Korea Independent Animation Filmmakers Association.

  • 심사위원
    Hong Jun-pyo

    First Flight Selection Committee

    Animation director. Main Producer at STUDIOROOMER

    Member of Executive committee atIndie-AniFest 2014

    Graduated from Korea National University ofArts

    2008, Directed, Short Animation

    2009, Directed < The Carburetter>,Short Animation

    2010, Directed, Short Animation

    2013, Directed, Short Animation -Indie-AniFest 2013, Prize for First Flight

    2013, Directed, Short Animation

  • 심사위원
    Jinny H.J. CHOO

    First Flight Selection Committee

    Majoredin Animation and Illustration. Adjunct Professor at School of Film, TV &Multimedia, the Korea National University of Arts.

     Beginning with Pucheon International StudentAnimation Festival in 2000, she has been working as a programmer at SeoulInternational Cartoon Animation Festival, Gwacheon SF Film Festival, SiggraphAsia Computer Animation Festival Director, and works for Indie-AniFest now.

     She studies on the possibility of IntegratedArt Therapy through animations, as she has performed animation therapyworkshops for children and teenagers at HanKum Counselling Psychology Centersince 2010.

  • 심사위원
    Kim Jun

    Independent Walk Selection Committee

    Won the Best Animation Prize ofNon-narrative section at Cordoba 2003 Animation Celebration in Argentina, andthe First Film Prize at CINANIMA03 International Animated Film Festival 2003 inEspinho, Portugal with <Intimate Feeling with my Friend>. He also won theJury Special Prize at Indie-AniFest with <The Sense of Space for UrbanPeople> in 2007 and has been constantly working on <A Reminiscence of aSplendid Day> (2009), <Where the Story Begins> (2009), <TheQuotidian Life> (2010), <Please Adopt, Don't Buy> (2012) and others.He works as an illustrator and Webtoon artist under the pen name of TheUnexpected.

  • 심사위원
    MO Eun-young

    Independent Walk Selection Committee

    Programmer of the Indie-AniFest2014

    Former Programmer at the 3rd EnvironmentFilm Festival and IndieForum Authors’ Meeting

    Completed the course work in Animationmajor at the Graduate School of Art and Technology at ChungAng University

  • 심사위원
    NA Gi-yong

    Independent Walk Selection Committee

    Festival director of Indie-AniFest 2007-2014

    Director of Korean Independent AnimationFilmmakers Association

    Professor of Animation department atChungKang College of Cultural Industries

    Director of Organizing committee at PISAF2013

    Member of Executive committee at SICAF 2012

    Ex-advisor of the Animation Committee at theKorean Film Council

    Ex-director of ‘Anima-Forum,’ a group ofKorean Independent Animation Creators

    Ex-director of FUTURE ART, an animationcreating group

Jury members
  • 심사위원
    Taku FURUKAWA

    Born in Iga ( Ninjya small town) Japan, 1941. Afterworked with Yoji Kuri in his studio for 3 years, started his career, as anindependent animation film maker, also as a freelance illustrator for editorial& advertising.Publishing Picture books for children, Manga ,making TV-CM,at the same time, started to make animated shorts from “Oxed man”( i969 Annecy)to “Hanano Hanashi(Nose Taje)”(2012). 

  • 심사위원
    Kim Noce

    I am anAnimator Director with a MA in Animation Direction from the NFTS and a BA inFine Art from BRERA. Alongside my personal films I work for the commercialsindustry My films and my animation work have won many awards, including BAFTAand ROYAL TELEVISION SOCIETY AWARD nominations. Since 2005 I formed co-createdthe collective www.mewlab.com

  • 심사위원
    HONG Deok-pyo

    2014 Directed Animation series

    2013 Feature Animation Film line producer

    2012 Directed Live Action Narrative Film

    2010 Directed Live Action

    2008 Omnibus Feature animation Film

    2004 Directed Short Animation Film

    2002 Directed

    2001 Graduated Animation of Kaywon Schoolof Art & Design

  • 심사위원
    SHIM Bo-seon

    Poet.Sociologist. Professor of Art & Culture Management Department at Kyung HeeCyber University. His poem, Landscape won the annual spring literary contest ofChosun Ilbo Newspaper in 1994. His collections of poems include Person notBefore Me and 15 Seconds without Sorrow, and his book of essays is FuliginousArt.

  • 심사위원
    PARK Hyun-kyung

    Majored in Animation directing at KoreanAcademy of Film Arts. Electric Circus production manager

    2014 3D TV series animation Assistantdirector

    2013 Feature Animation Film Director, inprogress

    2011 <Dad's Strange Appetite>Director

    2009 Animation Drawing Director, Planningof cooperation

    2006 < The Sea Of Their Own>Animation Drawing Director, Planning of cooperation

    2002 <The Oldman with Knapsack>Director

    1999-2000 Director

  • 심사위원
    Kim, Chang Nam

    Professorof the department of Newspaper and Broadcasting and the Graduate School ofCultural Studies at Sungkonghoe University. Achieved his Ph.D fromCommunication department at Seoul National University. Former board member ofthe Cartoon and Animation Society in Korea, Present president of the KoreanAssociation for the Study of Popular Music, and the head of juries of KoreanPopular Music Awards. His books include Culture of Life Song of Hope, PopularCulture and Cultural Practices, Understanding Popular Culture and others.