Amir Muhammad 

Amir Muhammad is a Malaysian who produces movies (under the company Kuman Pictures) and books (under Buku Fixi). His previous work as film director include the banned-in-Malaysia documentaries The Last Communist (2006) and Village People Radio Show (2007). As writer, his books include Yasmin Ahmad’s Films (2009) and 120 Malay Movies (2010). As editor, his books include KL Noir: Red (2013) and The Big Book of Malaysian Horror Stories (2022).

Katrina Stuart Santiago

Katrina Stuart Santiago is an essayist, cultural critic, opinion writer, and book author from Manila, with a decade of work in print and online. Her role as critic has fueled her activism, which cuts across issues of cultural labor, systemic dysfunctions, and institutional crises. She is a teacher of writing and criticism at the College of Saint Benilde, a book maker at small press and bookshop Everything’s Fine, and is contributor to the International Association of Theater Critics’s online platform, Critical Stages. She founded People for Accountable Governance and Sustainable Action-PAGASAph that seeks to provide the space for political action from younger civil society actors. She is part of the 2021 cohort of the Feminist Journalist Project of the Association of Women’s Rights in Development, is a 2023 Public Intellectual of the Democracy Discourse Series of the De La Salle University, and is part of UNESCO-Germany’s Fair Culture Movement. She has been writing at radikalchick.com since 2008 and is @radikalchick online. 

Nabilah Said

Nabilah Said is a playwright, editor and arts practitioner in Singapore. Nabilah is currently the editorial lead of Kontinentalist, a data storytelling studio based in Singapore. She has over 13 years’ experience working in editorial, journalism and communications.  Nabilah was the editor of ArtsEquator from 2019 to 2022, where she worked with creatives from Southeast Asia to produce original content about the arts, and mentored emerging writers. She also co-hosted the ArtsEquator podcast. Nabilah was formerly an arts correspondent with The Straits Times. As a playwright, has presented work with Teater Ekamatra, The Necessary Stage, Wild Rice, The Theatre Practice, T:<Works, as well as independent creatives in Singapore.