The 21st Seoul Independent Animation Festival
Seoul Indie-AniFest202518. SEP(THU).2025 ~ 23. SEP(TUE).2025
10th (2014)
Preliminary Jury
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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).
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.