Category: Arts & Culture

Yoon Jong-bin is a South Korean film director known for his detailed portrayals of corruption and crime within society. He made his successful feature film debut in 2005, with the release of The Unforgiven, winning many awards at the 2005 Busan International Film Festival. He is also widely known for his film, Nameless Gangster: Rules of Time, which covered the topic of the Korean government’s declaration of war against organized crime in 1990. The film was a major success, topping the list of ten most watched films in South Korea for the first quarter of 2012.

Charles Bramesco is a film and television critic living in Brooklyn. His work has appeared in the Guardian, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, Newsweek, Forbes, Nylon, Vulture, The A.V. Club, Indiewire, The Dissolve, Vox and Pitchfork. His favorite film is Boogie Nights.

Samuel Jamier is the executive director of The New York Asian Film Festival, North America’s leading festival of popular Asian cinema, “the world’s best-curated program of new and classic Asian cinema” (Indiewire), conceived and produced by Subway Cinema (and held at Film Society of Lincoln Center and SVA Theatre), a film and culture nonprofit which he also heads since 2015. He is also the founder of Windwellers Films and Citizen Pain Releasing Productions, a film producer, and a partner at the Hong Kong based film sales agency Good Move Media.

Until July 2013, he was senior film programmer and curator at Japan Society, responsible for the selection and organization of all films, series and festivals, and was in charge of its acclaimed Japanese Film Festival, Japan Cuts, for several years. Previously, he was senior programmer at The Korea Society, where he designed and executed cultural programming initiatives including an annual program of public lectures and workshops on topics ranging from foreign policy and corporate symposia to Korean cinema and traditional performing arts, hosted by heads of state, senior government officials, business leaders, university professors, authors, film directors and actors, as well as living national treasures.

Samuel Jamier earned doctoral, MA and BA degrees in English Literature, Comparative Literature, and Medieval Philosophy, with Honors, from the Sorbonne Nouvelle University; is an Agrégation Laureate in Modern English Literature; and a graduate from the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France. He also completed postgraduate studies at Tokyo University, Japan and King’s College in London, England.

He is of Korean descent, and grew up in Brittany, France.