Filmmakers, producers and storytellers selecting the award winners of the 9th Yakutsk International Film Festival.
Producer, General Producer of New People Film Company and Programme Director of the Zimny Auteur Film Festival. Chair of the International Jury of the 9th Yakutsk International Film Festival.
Producer of Playing the Victim, Yuri’s Day, Corrections Class, Battle for Sevastopol, The Man from Podolsk and First Oscar. Previously headed the Moskino cinema network and the Moscow Film Commission.
Producer, screenwriter and director; founder of Oymo Studio; Chair of the Association of Film Producers of Kyrgyzstan; Deputy Chair of the Union of Cinematographers of Kyrgyzstan.
Has worked in the cinema industries of Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan for over 25 years. An alumna of Berlinale Talents, EAVE and Produire au Sud, and a UNESCO consultant. Co-writer and co-director of Kurak (2025), which premiered at the Busan International Film Festival; producer and co-writer of The Lake (2020).
Film producer working in Indian and international cinema. Member of the International Jury of the 9th Yakutsk International Film Festival.
Produced Indian feature films including Na Tum Jaano Na Hum (2002) and Karma (2008). Worked on international productions, including German films and the American film Seal Team Six: The Raid on Osama Bin Laden (2012), and served as consulting producer on Namastey London (2007).
Festival Representative at Parallax Films and specialist in international film support. Member of the International Jury of the 9th Yakutsk International Film Festival.
Parallax Films is the international distribution division of Midnight Blur Films, representing Asian films at overseas markets and film festivals. QIAO Jinbiao is listed as a promotion contact for From Dawn to Dawn (2026) and Linka Linka (2025).
Producer, CEO of Tokyo New Cinema and visiting lecturer at Aoyama Gakuin University.
Founder of Tokyo New Cinema, a company working in film production and storytelling for business. His professional portfolio includes Horse Thieves, Silent Rain and Mio on the Shore. The company’s projects have screened at international film festivals; in 2017, one of its films received the FIPRESCI Prize at the Moscow International Film Festival.
Actor in international film and television, screenwriter and producer; develops projects through Ākaasha Media.
Known for playing Vilgefortz in Netflix’s The Witcher and Ahmad in Netflix’s Marco Polo. Also appeared in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017) and The Furnace (2020).
Cinematographer, director and producer; member of the Russian Guild of Cinematographers (RGC). Recipient of the Excellence in Culture distinction of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia).
Cinematographer of 24 Snow, The Sun Above Me Never Sets, Black Snow, Don’t Bury Me Without Ivan and other films. Recipient of the A. E. Kulakovsky State Prize of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). Has worked on film projects in Russia and internationally.
Director and screenwriter.