Spirits in Action

Chair of Asian Docs Co-production Network Project; Documentary Producing.

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A researcher and practitioner in art activism and political art in Asia, Haruka focuses on the intersection of documentary filmmaking and community building. With expertise in project coordination, production, and program direction.

Notable projects include the Docu Athan Project (2023–), program direction for Deep South – Deep South Movie Matchmaking: Celebration of Okinawa and Thai Deep South Filmmakers (2020), and curating the exhibition To Think on Your Feet: Strategies of Resistance in Art (Kyoto Art Center, 2024). (MA Tokyo University of the Arts).

Co-chair of Asian Docs Co-production Network Project.

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Professor of Graduate Institute of Documentary & Film Archiving at Tainan National University of the Arts. He holds the dean of college currently. His work focuses specifically on documentary, visual sociology and collective memory. ​ His recent publication can be found in arts, cultural studies and mass communication journal. (PhD NTU, Taiwan)

Independent filmmaker and Assistant Professor at Chulalongkorn University, where she leads the Department of Motion Pictures and Still Photography. She has worked extensively in cinema and visual arts, including roles as research curator for the Guangzhou Triennial 2012 and artist in residence at BAK in Utrecht. Her work focuses on marginalized communities, LGBTQ issues, and Thai documentaries, with notable films including The Isthmus (2013), The Caved Life (2020), and First Grade (2022). (PhD Lund University, Sweden)

Korean filmmaker and Professor at the Academy of Film and Creative Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, with over three decades of experience in both fictional and non-fictional filmmaking. Renowned for exploring the "human condition" in his storytelling, he has directed and produced award-winning films, including The Return (2017), which earned the Golden Zenith Award at the Montreal World Film Festival. Chul previously taught at Nanyang Technological University, Korea University, and San Francisco State University. His research focuses on audiences in media production and critical cultural studies. (PhD University of Iowa, MFA CUNY, U.S.)

Professor of Journalism and Media Cultural Studies at the Faculty of Film, TV, and Multimedia, Korea National University of Arts, Gyuchan specializes in exploring urbanity, transmedia creative writing, and (counter)memory in popular historiography. With expertise in urban visual flaneurship and excavating genocidal memories, his notable works include the book project Children Survived, which delves into the forgotten history of the Brothers Home encampment in modern Korea. (PhD University of Wisconsin, Madison, U.S.)

A faculty member in the Department of Broadcasting and Film at Korea National University of Arts, Jinhyuk focuses on social welfare, generational conflict, journalism, history, and humanity. Specializing in experimental and human-centered documentaries, their notable works include 7 Years of Journalism Without Journalists, Aftermath, and Knowledge Channel E.

Li Xin has been a lecturer in documentary filmmaking and visual anthropology at Yunnan University of the Arts in Kunming, China, since 2003. A seasoned filmmaker, he has created over a dozen documentary and ethnographic films, including My Family My Name (2011) and Lost Here Living Here (2019).

As the co-founder of From Our Eyes, China's first participatory community-based filmmaking program, he has trained over 200 ethnic minority filmmakers, focusing on eco-cultural sustainability in Tibetan and Southwestern Chinese communities. His expertise spans auto-ethnographic and participatory filmmaking, and his current work involves multimedia explorations of family memories with his students. (MA Yunnan University, China)

Professor at the Graduate School of Communication and Arts, Yonsei University. His research spans avant-garde cinema, interdisciplinary arts, performance, and VR, with expertise in essay films.

Notable works include X: Indifferent Spectacle (VR performance, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea), From the Sea (site-specific performance, Festival/Tokyo, 2014), and Heartlessly Autumn Wind (site-specific performance, Yokohama, 2013). He has also contributed to publications such as Art of the Future (co-written, 2016) and Horror to the Extreme (chapter, 2009). (PhD Northwestern University, MFA School of the Art Institute of Chicago, U.S.)

Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at Komazawa University. With research interests spanning media and cultural studies, Japanese immigration laws, race and gender issues, and Swedish cinema, Yoshi specializes in self-reflexive first-person filmmaking and the visual anthropology of the self. Notable works include Over the Threshold: 家族写真 (co-directed with C. Lloyd-Fitt, 1989), which received the Best Film Award from the Royal Institute of Anthropology (1990) and an Award of Encouragement from the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival (1989). (PhD Goldsmiths College, MA National Film and TV School (NFTS), UK.)