The Pusan International Film Festival's Pusan Promotion Plan (PPP) – an Asian feature project financing platform – announced the winners of various awards handed-out to six of the 30 projects pitched during the event. PPP ran Oct 11 – 14 during the festival and its attendant Asian Film Market.
The top winner was Decadent Sisters, a new project by Japanese director-producer AOYAMA Shinji (Eureka, Sad Vacation). It won the Pusan Award of US $20,000 presented by Busan Metropolitan City.
A Korean project was also a big winner with director
Han Jae-rim ("The
Rules of Dating", "...
MoreManilla's 2009 Korean Film Festival opened Sept 23, offering free screenings to the public during its one week run. Sponsored by the Korean Embassy and held at Shangri-La Plaza, the fest showcases seven Korean features and celebrates the "Philippines-Republic of Korea Friendship Year".
The program features some of the most artistically accomplished films in Korean cinema over the last 9 years, including renowned and emerging directors. Korean TV dramas are already popular in the Philippines, but audiences have yet to be exposed to Korean feature filmmaking.
The seven films in the program are
"Old Boy" (
Park Chan-wook), "
Barking Dogs Never Bite" (
Bong Joon-ho...
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Director
Han Jae-rim will reveal his third feature film project "Trace" – a US $7.7 million superhero blockbuster – at the Asian Film Market's PPP, a major project market that takes place during the Pusan Int'l Film Festival in October.
Based on a web-based comic series by the same title, Trace is the story of Yoon-sung, a young man who wakes up with supernatural powers after days in a coma after an assault that takes his father's life. When the assault remains unsolved due to an apathetic police, Yoon-sung takes matters into his own hands. He discovers that another man with superpowers, Hee-sup, was involved and that he wants Yoon-sung dead.
The project is to be produced by Syd Lim and SEO Woo-sik of Barunson Film Division. The company has produced such major titles as ...
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Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF) unveiled the line-up of Pusan Promotion Plan (PPP). Korean directors
Bong Joon-ho,
Heo Jin-ho,
Noh Kyeong-tae,
Son Jae-gon,
Han Jae-rim, and
Lee Myeong-se are among the influential names in cinema who will present their upcoming project at the 2009 edition. PIFF calls this year's selection the "toughest ever due to the many quality projects".
BONG will attend PPP ...
MoreThe 11th Wisconsin Film Festival, held annually at the University of Wisconsin in the U.S., presents a 'Focus on South Korea' for its 2009 edition running April 2 – 5. Five critically acclaimed Korean features will screen during the event along with one Canadian-Korean short film.
Indie favorite "
Daytime Drinking" by
Noh Young-seok will screen, continuing its tour of international festi...
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