Maggie Lee is a film critic, curator and talent mentor. She was a pitching coach for workshops such as Wu Tianming Film Fund (China), Produire au Sud (Taiwan) and SEAFIC Script Lab (Thailand). As an industry consultant, she has also collaborated with Hong Kong–Asia Film Financing Forum, Japan Foundation and Netherlands Film Fund. In addition to serving on numerous international film juries, her bylines can be found in Variety, The Hollywood Reporter and Criterion, among others.

Nam Dong-chul began as a staff writer in 1995 for the Korean weekly film magazine Cine21, and had been the Editor-in-Chief since 2004. He served as General Manager of Asian Film Market in Busan International Film Festival from 2008 to 2013 then worked as Programmer in charge of Korean Cinema from 2013 and as Program Director of Busan International Film Festival since 2019. He had served as a jury for Tokyo International Film Festival in 2019 and for Jeonju International Film Festival in 2021.

Thomas Rosso has been the Cannes Critics Week’s program manager and Next Step workshop director since 2020. He previously worked at Why Not Productions, a French film production company; La Fémis National Film School, a renowned grande école and film and television school in Paris; and at L’Image Retrouvée, a leading laboratory specialized in the restoration and conservation of analog film.