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Interview: Pusan festival director Kim Dong-ho
Which festivals do you enjoy'Cannes and Berlin are huge and they can be complicated, but they have the advantage of letting you meet lots of people. I like Rotterdam for the same reason. As for a smaller, quieter but well-run festival with substance, I would pick Karlovy Vary. Locarno has ...
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Pusan Special: Asia's Sundance'
Is Pusan becoming the Sundance Film Festival of Asia' South Korea's leading film event certainly takes pride in showcasing independent discoveries from the region.The Hong Kong International Film Festival and Filmart in April have the Chinese-language market covered, and next month's Tokyo International Film Festival and Tiffcom, although growing in ...
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Pusan's Asian Film Market to host Asian Film Funds Forum
The Pusan International Film Festival's 3rd Asian Film Market will be holding a three-day film financing event, the Asian Film Funds Forum (Oct 3-5), which is being co-hosted by Screen International. 'Participants will be able to obtain the key information on film financing in Asia, in addition to a general ...
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Son quits Show East to launch M-Line Distribution
South Korean film company Show East's head of international business Michelle Son has left to launch a new sales outfit, M-Line Distribution. The new company will make its debut at the upcoming Asian Film Market during the Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF).'We have to look harder for good Korean titles ...
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Fine Cut's Hansel And Gretel heads to Canada
Canadian genre film distributor Evokative Films has picked up local rights for Korean horror film Hansel And Gretel from Fine Cut. The film, directed by Yim Phil-sung, recently won a special mention from the European Federation of Fantastic Film Festivals Jury at the Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival (PiFan) and ...
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Kazakhstan's Gift To Stalin to open Pusan film festival
The 13th Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF) will be presenting a record 315 films this year from 60 countries, with a total of 85 world and 48 international premieres. The fest will open Oct 2 with the world premiere of award-winning Kazakhstani filmmaker Rustem Abdrashev's The Gift To Stalin and ...
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Karina to head Pusan's New Currents Award jury
The 13th Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF) has announced its juries for the New Currents Award and Wide Angle awards. French actress Anna Karina, star of Nouvelle Vague films such as Bande à Part and Alphaville, will head the New Currents jury for Asian feature films.Other members of the jury ...
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BIFCOM's Film Policy Plus to discuss Asian incentives
The Busan Film Commission (BFC) has announced the inaugural Film Policy Plus (FPP), an Asia Pacific film policy forum for high-level policymakers and industry professionals to be held Oct 4-5 during the Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF) and concurrent Asian Film Market's BIFCOM. Originally a locations and post-production exhibition and ...
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Fine Cut picks up Lee Chang-dong's Poetry
South Korea's Fine Cut has picked up worldwide sales rights for Lee Chang-dong's upcoming film, tentatively titled Poetry. Lee's last film, Secret Sunshine,wonthe best actress award for Jeon Do-hyun in Cannes last year.Poetry will be about a woman in her mid-sixties who lives with her 15-year-old grandson in poverty and ...
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Survival Song takes Red Chameleon award at CinDi fest
The 2nd Cinema Digital Seoul Film Festival (CinDi) closed with a screening of Yu Guangyi's Survival Song, which won the International Directors Jury's Red Chameleon award yesterday (Aug 26). The jury, led by Korean Chinese director Zhang Lu, praised the film for 'continually shooting even in extremely limited light to ...
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PIFF names Gulnara Sarsenova as Asian Filmmaker of the Year
The 13th Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF) has announced that Gulnara Sarsenova from Kazakhstan will be the recipient of its Asian Filmmaker of the Year award. Sarsenova, the first woman to win the award, is currently festival chairman of the International Eurasia Film Festival and also a producer whose credits ...
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Chung exits Taewon to launch non-listed production outfit
Korean producer Chung Tae-Won has sold his shares in KOSDAQ-listed production company, Taewon Entertainment, and is launching a new production outfit, Taewon Productions. In an $18.5m deal announced yesterday (Aug 19), Taewon sold his 17% share of the company, along with another 52% owned by Fireworks International and a foreign ...
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Pusan Promotion Plan reveals line-up of 30 projects
The 11th Pusan Promotion Plan (PPP) has announcedthe official line-up for this year's projects market - 30 projects from 17 countries selected from 200 submissions. The line-up includes work from China's Zhang Yuan, Japan's Sabu and Chinese-Korean filmmaker Zhang Lu. Of note, Lee Chang-dong (Secret Sunshine) will not only be ...
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Showbox pre-sells Rough Cut to Japan's Pony Canyon
Korean sales agent Showbox has pre-sold action film Rough Cut to Pony Canyon for Japan. Directed by Kim Ki-duk protege Jang Hun, the $1.5m film wrapped principal photography last month.The film stars Kang Ji-hwan and So Ji-sub - well-known in both Japan and Korea for their TV drama performances. Kang ...
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Pusan's Asian Cinema Fund awards funding to 27 projects
The Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF) Committee has announced the 27 films selected to receive backing from the Asian Cinema Fund (ACF) this year. For the Independent Feature Script and Project Development Fund category, three Korean projects, including Seaside by Kim Jong-kwan, and four Asian projects, including Woman On Fire ...
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Gyeonggito supportUS-Korea ventures with $100m fund
South Korea's Gyeonggi province has launched an entertainment initiative to promote co-ventures with Hollywood, which includes a $100m fund for films, animation and games projects with global appeal. 'Gyeonggi Province will be putting in $20m seed money and we are currently bringing in other international investors,' said Yoonsik Choi, department ...
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KOFIC submits Crossing as Korea's Oscar entry
The Korean Film Council (KOFIC) has announced North Korean refugee drama Crossing as its entry to the 81st Academy Awards best foreign-language film nominations. Based on real-life interviews from North Korean defectors, the film follows the story of a father and son tragically separated and trying to find each other, ...
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KOFIC awards p&a cash to Dutch, Hong Kong distributors
The Korean Film Council (KOFIC) has announced that its second P&A Fund for Korean Films Abroad will be awarded to Stichting Nederlands Filmmuseum and Hong Kong's Golden Scene to distribute five films in total, including Secret Sunshine and The Chaser. A committee of five jury members selected Stichting Nederlands Filmmuseum ...
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Hong Sang-soo starts shooting low-budget HD film
Korean auteur director Hong Sang-soo has commenced shooting his ninth film, which is a high-definition (HD) project with a budget of less than $100,000, according to his production house Jeonwonsa. The film stars Kim Tae-woo, who was previously in Hong's Woman Is The Future Of Man and Woman On The ...
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KTH launches legal download service Fine Movie
South Korean internet portal, gaming service and contents provider KTH has announced deals with several major webhard and P2P sites to launch a legal download service called Fine Movie (FM). KTH-owned films downloaded from these sites will incur a fee whether the source was uploaded by KTH or an illegal ...