(Above picture: 2011 Image of the festival, Photo: official hompage of the 44th Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival.)
The festival held from October 6 to 16 this year in Sitges, Catalonia, Spain is known for such genres as science fiction, horror, and thriller movies.
According to the homepage of the festival, Na Hong-jin was named Best Director for "The Yellow Sea". Oh Young-du's "Invasion of Alien Bikini" and PARKing CHANce (Park Chan-wook & Park Chan-kyong)'s "Night Fishing" received awards in the Noves Visions category where films with new trends are honored.
Ryoo Seung-wan's "The Unjust" received the Casa Àsia award and Oh Seong-yoon's "Leafie, A Hen Into The Wild" received the Sitgest Family award.
During the festival, a number of Korean films were shown including Kim Ki-duk's "ARIRANG - Movie", Lee Hyun-soo's "A Function", and Kim Min-suk's "Haunters". Film director Ryoo Seung-wan was invited to join one of the juries.
Previously, Kim Ok-bin received the Best Actress award for Thirst at the 42nd festival and Yoon-Yeo-Jeong received the same award in 1971 at the 4th festival with her movie Woman of Fire.
For more information about the festival, visit http://sitgesfilmfestival.com/eng.
By Jessica Seoyoung Choi
Korea.net Staff Writer
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