Various Summer Film Festivals to Take Place Nationwide
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By Kim Tae-jong
Staff Reporter
Small, niche film festivals with unique themes tailored for specific audiences will take place throughout Korea this summer.
These festivals, for small audiences, aim to offer colorful and distinctive festive moods for visitors.
Goyang International Children's Film Festival (GICFF) (Aug. 19-24)
Korea's first film festival for children will take place at Goyang SPART Complex & Park in Koynag, Kyonggi Province. It features films for and by children and targets those aged from three to 15 and their parents.
A total of 142 films from home and abroad will be shown, including 15 works by child directors, which were submitted to the festival's competition section.
Each film has its own rating for certain age groups and there is a book reading event for those who haven't yet entered an elementary school.
For more information, call (031) 902-7376 or visit http://www.gicff.com
Seoul International Cartoon and Animation Festival (SICAF) (Aug. 11-16)
Korea's biggest cartoon and animation event will celebrate its ninth anniversary, offering a rich menu of programs at the COEX center in Samsong-dong, Seoul.
The main program include animated film festivals, exhibitions, and a series of conferences on the domestic animation market.
Opening with "Renart the Fox" based on a famous French fable, the film festival will show about 300 short and feature animated films from some 40 countries. Various cartoon related exhibitions will be held at COEX Pacific Hall.
Outdoor screening of animations and presentations will take place at the Seoul Plaza in front of Seoul City Hall.
For more information, call (02) 755-2216 or visit http://www.sicaf.or.kr
Buan Film Festival (Aug. 12-14)
In its second year, the festival aims to shed light on the issue of environment and women's role in it, taking place at Buan Catholic Church in Puan county, North Cholla Province.
The festival will screen 16 local and three international movies as well as five submissions by housewives.
The environmental issue is important to the residents in the county as last year they held fierce protests against the construction of a nuclear waste reprocessing facility on Wido, an islet off the county's coast. The site was selected without residents' approval. The government will select another site to build a nuclear waste dump.
For more information, call (063) 582-0802 or visit http://www.baff.or.kr
Jecheon International Music & Film Festival (Aug. 10-14)
The festival, which takes place for the first time in a small town of Chechon, North Chungchong Province, focuses on movies with beautiful music or films that deal with music and musicians.
The festival will show a total of about 40 films in six sections with the 2004 Japanese film "Swing Girls" by Yaguchi Sinobu as its opening film.
A series of outdoor events entitled "One Summer Night", will offer various concerts and screenings of films. Local and international musicians will participate in the events.
For more information, call (043) 646-2242 or (02) 925-2242 or visit http://www.jimff.or.kr
Seoul Net & Film Festival (SeNef) (Sept. 1-8)
This festival takes place both in cyberspace and in the real world to celebrate the digital medium and the experimental side of filmmaking. Its offline film festival will be held at Dansungsa theater in Chongno, Seoul.
Films and web art have already been screened on the festival's Web site and through digital multimedia broadcasting (DMB) service on mobiles. A total of 80 films will be screened during the offline film festival with the opening film of Austrian director Gustav Deutsch's "World Mirror Cinema Episode I- III"
For details, call (02) 518-4332 or visit http://www.senef.net
Seoul Green Film Festival (Sept. 8-14)
This festival shows a total of 115 films from 34 different countries dealing with environmental issues at various venues including Cinecube and Scala theaters and the Seoul Museum of History.
Iranian master filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami's new work will open the festival and his photo exhibitions will also be on display.
A co-production documentary between the organizing body of the festival and local television network SBS will be also screened. Entitled "The Disaster 0.6˚", the documentary examines the dangers of green house gases that have increased the average temperature of the earth to 0.6˚ in the past one hundred years.
For more information, call (02) 725-3567 or visit http://www.gffis.org
Staff Reporter
Small, niche film festivals with unique themes tailored for specific audiences will take place throughout Korea this summer.
These festivals, for small audiences, aim to offer colorful and distinctive festive moods for visitors.
Goyang International Children's Film Festival (GICFF) (Aug. 19-24)
Korea's first film festival for children will take place at Goyang SPART Complex & Park in Koynag, Kyonggi Province. It features films for and by children and targets those aged from three to 15 and their parents.
A total of 142 films from home and abroad will be shown, including 15 works by child directors, which were submitted to the festival's competition section.
Each film has its own rating for certain age groups and there is a book reading event for those who haven't yet entered an elementary school.
For more information, call (031) 902-7376 or visit http://www.gicff.com
Seoul International Cartoon and Animation Festival (SICAF) (Aug. 11-16)
Korea's biggest cartoon and animation event will celebrate its ninth anniversary, offering a rich menu of programs at the COEX center in Samsong-dong, Seoul.
The main program include animated film festivals, exhibitions, and a series of conferences on the domestic animation market.
Opening with "Renart the Fox" based on a famous French fable, the film festival will show about 300 short and feature animated films from some 40 countries. Various cartoon related exhibitions will be held at COEX Pacific Hall.
Outdoor screening of animations and presentations will take place at the Seoul Plaza in front of Seoul City Hall.
For more information, call (02) 755-2216 or visit http://www.sicaf.or.kr
Buan Film Festival (Aug. 12-14)
In its second year, the festival aims to shed light on the issue of environment and women's role in it, taking place at Buan Catholic Church in Puan county, North Cholla Province.
The festival will screen 16 local and three international movies as well as five submissions by housewives.
The environmental issue is important to the residents in the county as last year they held fierce protests against the construction of a nuclear waste reprocessing facility on Wido, an islet off the county's coast. The site was selected without residents' approval. The government will select another site to build a nuclear waste dump.
For more information, call (063) 582-0802 or visit http://www.baff.or.kr
Jecheon International Music & Film Festival (Aug. 10-14)
The festival, which takes place for the first time in a small town of Chechon, North Chungchong Province, focuses on movies with beautiful music or films that deal with music and musicians.
The festival will show a total of about 40 films in six sections with the 2004 Japanese film "Swing Girls" by Yaguchi Sinobu as its opening film.
A series of outdoor events entitled "One Summer Night", will offer various concerts and screenings of films. Local and international musicians will participate in the events.
For more information, call (043) 646-2242 or (02) 925-2242 or visit http://www.jimff.or.kr
Seoul Net & Film Festival (SeNef) (Sept. 1-8)
This festival takes place both in cyberspace and in the real world to celebrate the digital medium and the experimental side of filmmaking. Its offline film festival will be held at Dansungsa theater in Chongno, Seoul.
Films and web art have already been screened on the festival's Web site and through digital multimedia broadcasting (DMB) service on mobiles. A total of 80 films will be screened during the offline film festival with the opening film of Austrian director Gustav Deutsch's "World Mirror Cinema Episode I- III"
For details, call (02) 518-4332 or visit http://www.senef.net
Seoul Green Film Festival (Sept. 8-14)
This festival shows a total of 115 films from 34 different countries dealing with environmental issues at various venues including Cinecube and Scala theaters and the Seoul Museum of History.
Iranian master filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami's new work will open the festival and his photo exhibitions will also be on display.
A co-production documentary between the organizing body of the festival and local television network SBS will be also screened. Entitled "The Disaster 0.6˚", the documentary examines the dangers of green house gases that have increased the average temperature of the earth to 0.6˚ in the past one hundred years.
For more information, call (02) 725-3567 or visit http://www.gffis.org
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