Benjamin Illos

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Benjamin Illos’ range of expertise spans from film criticism to editing and film festivals curation. Collaborating with Pierre Rissient for a decade he partook in many highly appraised productions. He also is a well-regarded subtitles author and was trusted to translate features by Jane Campion, Clint Eastwood or James Gray amongst many others. He joined Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight as a programmer in 2012, and is an advisor for several other Film Festivals (Fribourg, Gangneung…).

Hai Qing

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Famous actress, graduated from the Acting Department of Beijing Film Academy. Her representative works include Hidden in the Dust, Operation Red Sea, Beijing Meets Seattle, Heart Dwelling, Little Joy and so on. Since her debut, Hai Qing has portrayed a number of vivid and lively screen images in a series of dramas. In 2018, Hai Qing starred in the movie Operation Red Sea, which became the box office champion in Chinese mainland that year, and won the 3^rd Golden Crane Award for Best Actress at Tokyo International Film Festival and China Film Performing Arts Society’s Actress of the Year Award. In 2022, Hai Qing starred in the film Hidden in the Dust and Smoke, which was selected in the main competition of the 72^nd Berlin International Film Festival. In 2017, she was the ambassador and jury member of the 4^th Chongqing Youth Film Festival; in 2019, she was the “No. 1 Person” of the 13^th FIRST Youth Film Festival, and in 2021, she was the ambassador and jury member of the Wu Tianming Youth Film Summit.

Nai An

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Nai An graduated from the Central Academy of Drama in 1991 majoring in Direction. She started to produce feature films as an independent producer since 1993. She founded DREAM FACTORY BEIJING in 1999 and produced a number of well recognized films including Suzhou River, Purple Butterfly, Spring Fever, Blind Massage and The Shadow Play all directed by Lou Ye.