
17/06/2025
We're honored to introduce the six incredible mentors who will be guiding our participants through the Karre Mouy Workshop! We're so excited for the valuable insights and expertise they'll share, helping to shape the next generation of Cambodian filmmakers. โจ
๐ธ๐ฌ Weijie Lai is a film producer based in Singapore and Toronto, Canada. In 2010 he co-founded E&W Films, a Singapore-based film development and production company with Elizabeth Wijaya. Weijie has several years of experience as a senior programmer at the Singapore International Film Festival, developing its film academy and overseeing its Asian selection. He has served on the selection committee for several fund bodies.
๐ต๐ญ Liza Diรฑo, co-founder of Fire and Ice Media and Productions, a rising global entertainment company based in the Philippines, is dedicated to taking Filipino and Southeast Asian creativity to new heights. Her tenure as head of the Film Development Council of the Philippines led to the launch of Film Philippines, the countryโs first national film incentive and international coproduction funding program. In June 2023, Liza was honored with France's highest civilian award, the Chevalier in the French Order of Arts and Letters, for her invaluable contributions to world cinema. Liza currently serves as the executive director of the Quezon City Film Commission and the managing director of QCinema Project Market, a regional investment and co-production hub for Southeast Asian projects.
๐ฐ๐ญ Sreylin Meas has worked in the Cambodian film industry since 2009. Since then, she has played many production roles on both film and television in both the local industry and for international productions shooting in Cambodia. With Anti-Archive, she has served as assistant director on Dream Land, Turn Left Turn Right , Diamond Island and White Building. She was location manager on Onoda - 10000 Nights in the Jungle. She has worked as a freelance line producer and production manager on several international productions shooting in Cambodia and commercial projects as well. California Dreaming, her first short film as a director, won the Best Southeast Asian Short Film at the 2019 Singapore International Film Festival. In 2023, she was a producing mentor at the Purin Short Film Camp in Thailand.
๐ฒ๐พ Lorna Tee is a prolific pan-asian film producer, dividing her time across Asia & Europe. She has had management roles at Focus Films, Variety, Back Up Media, Cinematheque Passion and key positions in festivals such as Berlinale, CinemAsia, IFFAM and more. Currently, she is the curator of , the international advisor for Barunson E&A, the Secretary-General of the Asian Film Alliance Network (AFAN) and the advisor for JAFF Market.Selected filmography includes The Beautiful Washing Machine, Rain Dogs, Crazy Stone, My Mother is a Bellydancer, The Shoe Fairy, At the End of Daybreak, Loverโs Discourse, Come Rain, Come Shine, Postcards from the Zoo, Mrs K, HBOโs Folklore (Toyol), Viรชt and Nam & Diamonds in the Sand.
๐ฐ๐ญ๐บ๐ฒ Daniel Mattes is an American-born producer and partner at the Cambodian production company Anti-Archive. In 2016, he joined as co-writer and associate producer for Kavich Neangโs feature film, White Building, which won the Orizzonti award for Best Actor in Venice in 2021. He also produced Kavich Neang's short New Land Broken Road, his documentary Last Night I Saw You Smiling, Danech San's shorts Sunrise in My Mind and Sea within a Sea, Polen Ly's short Further and Further Away, Boren Chhith's short Golden Dragon, Nontawat Numbenchapol's debut feature, Doi Boy, and Chheangkea's short Grandma Nai who Played Favorites. He also manages Anti-Archive's distribution and communications and advises on Kampung Film Festival and MARG1N film magazine. He has served as a producing mentor for Purin Short Film Camp in Thailand in 2022 and Objectifs Short Film Incubator in Singapore in 2024. In addition, he also works as a consultant for human rights and justice-related programs in Cambodia.
๐ฐ๐ญ Loy Te, a Cambodian-French filmmaker, founded Kongchak Pictures in 2014. His first major success was Jailbreak which won "Best Action Film" at Fantasia in 2017 before being acquired by Netflix. He then produced Young Love which premiered in Locarno in 2021, and Tenement which premiered in Rotterdam in 2024. In 2021 he started the Kongchak Studio Award at Busan Asian Project Market which was given to Last Shadow At First Light from Singapore in 2021 and premiered at the 71st San Sebastian International Film Festival and Filipinana from the Philippines in 2022, currently in post-production. He is also working on several international co-productions in Asia.
๐ฉ Stay tuned for more program updates!