Park Jung-bum (박정범)

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  Korean Presence at Rotterdam International Film Festival
  2011/01/26, Source,
  The International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) describes itself as offering "a quality selection of independent, innovative and experimental cinema, video and media art". Celebrating its 40th edition this year, IFFR will run January 26-February 6. Rotterdam's Bright Future section, featuring "first or second films by filmmakers from whom the festival expects a lot in the future" is comprised of 80 titles selected from 38 countries this year,...More

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  Director gets to heart of defectors' struggle
  2010/12/30, Source,
  Director Park Jung-bum has been praised in Korea as the year's best new director. [JoongAng Ilbo] Despite the increase in the number of North Korean defectors in South Korea, there are few films or television programs that show what their lives are like once they arrive. So when "The Journals of Musan" - which tells the story of a North Korean defector's escape and resettlement in South Korea - was screened at film festivals earlier this year, it caught the attention of critics, festival judges and the media. The film focuses on how defectors deal with living in a capitalist society and their struggle to fit in,...More

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  Film on N.K. defector wins Grand Prix in Morocco's film festival
  2010/12/15, Source,
  Still cut from the film "The Journals of Musan" (2010) [Courtesy of PIFF] Korean film "The Journals of Musan" won the top prize at the 10th Marrakech International Film Festival held in Morocco last week. "The Journals of Musan" (2010), director Park Jung-bum's first feature, won the Grand Prix at the annual fest held from December 3 to 11,...More

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  [PIFF] Korean directors take PIFF's New Currents awards
  2010/10/19, Source,
  Turkish critic Alin Tasciyan hands director Park Jung-bum of "The Journals of Musan" the International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI) award at the Haeundae Grand Hotel in Busan, South Korea on October 15, 2010. [PIFF] The 15th Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF) wrapped up nine days of festivities with Korean films sweeping the awards in the category of New Currents competition. Park Jung-bum of "The Journals of Musan" and Yoon Sung-hyun of "Bleak Night" took the two prizes handed to films by young and new directors on their debut or second features on Friday, the last day of this year's PIFF which started October 7,...More