Award-winning filmmaker, video artist and writer. His work have been widely exhibited and collected internationally. Richard has received the Bell Canada Award for outstanding achievement in video art and the Kessler Award for a substantive body of work which has had an impact on LGBTQ studies.

Celina Hung is Assistant Professor of Literature at NYU Shanghai. She teaches Sinophone and Anglophone literatures, Chinese migrant and diasporic networks, Asian cinemas, and gender and sexuality studies.

A member of the Film Desk of the Young Critics Circle of the Philippines, J. holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. They teaches literature, cinema, popular culture, and theory and criticism at Ateneo de Manila University. They is also a co-founding editor of Queer Southeast Asia.

Artist, dedicated to drawing, photography, documentary and LGBTQI movements. Co-director of China Queer Independent Films (CQIF), an organization dedicated to the production and promotion of indie films that challenge the representations of queer individuals in mainstream media and films and advocates for gender equality and freedom of expression.

Producer of multiple films focusing on the female gender, she is the executive director of the Pink Space Sexuality Research Center, an NGO that aims to create a platform for the sexually repressed to vocalize their desires and opinions, and to form groups that advocate for sexual rights and liberation.

Award-winning Portuguese director João began by studying biology at Lisbon University to become an ornithologist but soon gave it up for Cinema Studies and graduated from Lisbon Film School. Exploring human desire in all its guises and disguises, his films premiered and won prizes at the world’s foremost film festivals.

Documentary director, editor. His works as a director include The Temple and New Castle. The latter was awarded Best Documentary at the Pusan International Film Festival. His works as an editor include A Journal of Crude Oil, Lotus and The Missing.

An acclaimed art director and writer, João lived in Macao, China in the seventies. He taught art direction/ production design at the Lisbon Film School from 2004 to 2011, and worked on several features and shorts. He is best known for The Last Time I Saw Macao (2012).

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