Jean Noh is Deputy Asia Editor & Korea Correspondent at Screen International. She has been with the UK-based film trade publication since 2005. Her career includes starting out as a sales agent in 1998, as well as working for the co-production market at Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) in 2000. She worked at the Korean Film Council (KOFIC) for three years managing film festivals and international marketing for Korean cinema and in CJ Entertainment’s Global Projects task force team as a development producer. She was an executive producer on director Wayne Wang’s U.S.-South Korea co-production Coming Home Again, which made its 2019 world premiere in Toronto International Film Festival’s Special Presentations. Other work includes writing for Cahiers du Cinema, moderating and/or interpreting talks at the Rotterdam, Edinburgh and Toronto film festivals, consulting for Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, and subtitling films such as Park Chan-wook’s Sympathy for Lady Vengeance and Ryoo Seung-wan’s Die Bad. In 2021, she started writing a classic films column for Korean daily newspaper Dong-a Ilbo. She has been on juries at Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival and Tokyo FilmEx. At BIFF 2012, the Korean Film Reporters’ Association gave her the award for contribution to Korean cinema.
The Asia Pacific Screen Academy expresses its respect for and acknowledgement of the South East Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. We pay our respects to the Traditional Owners of country, including the custodial communities on whose land works are created and celebrated by the Asia Pacific Screen Awards. We acknowledge the continuing connection to land, waters and communities. We also pay our respects to Elders, past and present. We recognise the integral role Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and First Nations peoples continue to play in storytelling and celebration spaces.