JEANINE JEO-HI KIM is the Founder and Artistic Director of the Women & Fashion FilmFest, the Girls Film Festival, and SHE WEBFest. The Women & Fashion FilmFest is part film festival, part conference, gathering leaders in entertainment, fashion and media to foster social responsibility, especially toward women, and to create opportunities for women and diverse emerging artists. Past speakers include legendary Vogue Editor Andre Leon Talley, Oscar nominated and Emmy Award winning costume designer for Sex In the City Patricia Field, President of Sundance Productions Laura Michalchyshyn, Vimeo President Dae Mellancamp, Star of The Chew on ABC Carla Hall and many others.

 

Prior, Jeanine founded the Metropolitan Arts League to support artists by spreading word about their work through live events and an online forum. For the Metropolitan Arts

League, Jeanine organized numerous special screenings of independent films, performance gatherings and talk-backs. Notable participants include actors John Leguizamo, Ethan Hawke, BD Wong, Natasha Lyonne, Marisa Tomei, Wally Shawn, Frank Whaley, Daphne-Rubin Vega, and Gordon Clapp among others.

 

Before founding the film festivals and arts organization, Jeanine worked in equity research covering Interactive TV, Cable and Entertainment, and in project finance. She worked with institutions such as UBS, Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan. These positions have allowed her to work in New York, Hong Kong and London and to travel extensively throughout North America, Europe and Asia.

 

Before moving into the private sector, Jeanine worked with the World Bank in Washington DC in the area of privatization. She also worked as an Editor, Researcher, and Speechwriter for the Deputy Prime Minister of Korea and an Editor and Speechwriter for the President of the Republic of Korea. She helped prepare speeches in English for the President of The Republic of Korea for numerous international diplomatic missions including those presented at the US Congress, the British Parliament, and the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

 

Currently, Jeanine serves as a Juror for the IPhone Film Festival, one of the largest international mobile film festivals.  Jeanine also serves as Acting US Chair of Maritage International, a United Nations driven independent non-profit platform dedicated to empowering women through the arts. In the past, Jeanine also served as Co-Chair of Fashion Diaspora, an international effort of the Will to Adorn Project of the Smithsonian Institution, East Rock Institute, Korean Cultural Service, The National Museum of Ethnology of Japan, and Sungshin Women’s University. 

 

Jeanine received a B.A. from Yale University and M.B.A. from Columbia University. Jeanine has also taken independent study of film, writing and design at the New School, the School of Visual Arts and the Fashion Institute of Technology. She speaks French, Spanish and Korean. She is married to a technology and media entrepreneur and Co-Founder of WireImage, MediaVast and ImageLocker. Despite her numerous makeovers, art and storytelling have always been Jeanine’s passion. She is currently working on her film projects. Jeanine also continues to be strongly interested in exploring the interrelation between media and society.

 

You can connect with Jeanine on Twitter @jeaninejeohikim & LinkedIn. 

 

 

 

PAUL VAN RAVENSTEIN is Director of the Women & Fashion Film Festival. He is also a Visual Artist and Consultant, whose passion for the visual arts has allowed him to be an award-winning expert in photography. Born in The Netherlands, Paul was introduced to photography by his sister, top model Appollonia. She introduced him to renown photographers such as Richard Avedon, Parkison, Ara Gallant, Watson, Hero and Johnvelle. At the age of eighteen, Paul moved to New York City and began assisting Ara Gallant, fostering his development in studio and on-location photography.

 

Starting out on own his own as a photographer in the early eighties, Paul first covered fashion shows in Paris and Milan, then later began shooting editorials and advertising. His work has been published inmajor international publications including Vogue Pelle, Teen

Vogue, Moda , Avenue, Gioa , King, Taxi, Anabella, Chi, Gente and OK Magazine. His advertising experience includes shooting catalogs for Rootstein Mannequins, La Mason Blue, Linea Lydia, Rustans, Filitura di Crosa and Squash Vico. Additionally, Paul’s photography has been exhibited in numerous art shows.

 

Paul has also spearheaded and organized several international events, fashion shows and charitable benefits. He has traveled the world extensively and has resided and worked in Italy for over twenty years. He is fluent in Dutch, German, Italian and English. Moving along with the times, Paul has earned a degree of fine arts. Known as a family man as well as a fashion professional, he is husband to legendary supermodel Pat Cleveland and father to Anna Cleveland, who have both graced numerous fashion campaigns and magazine covers.