 BIFF News: Korean Cinema Retrospective - Masculine Icon of the Korean Cinema: Shin Young-kyun 36 weeks 6 days ago
SEOUL, South Korea -- Starring in more than 300 films, actor Shin Young-kyun has made remarkable achievements in Korean Film. The screening of eight of his films provides the Busan International Film Festival the opportunity to present the fever of his hit films.
From a Farmhand to a King: Meet the kaleidoscope of his work
Shin Young-kyun was the... |
 Legendary Mexican Film Director Arturo Ripstein Special Program Announced 37 weeks 10 hours ago
SEOUL, South Korea -- The Busan International Film Festival has announced a special program featuring famed Mexican director Arturo Ripstein, who also heads this years Flash Forward section. Among many masterworks, BIFF specially selected his films about obsessive love.
Ripstein started his career as the assistant director of El Ángel exterminador/The Exterminating Angel (1962) directed by Luis Bunuel, whom Alfred Hitchcock and Martin Scorsese worshiped. Arturo Ripstein is currently... |
 BIFF News: Flash Forward Selections Announced 37 weeks 1 day ago
SEOUL, South Korea -- The Flash Forward is a competitive section which introduces the first or second works of non-Asian directors and encourages the cinematic art. The Flash Forward has found a number of filmmakers who present diverse stories, such as Guido Lombardi (A Criminal Education, 2011), Lisa Langseth (Pure, 2010), and Zaida Bergroth (Last Cowboy Standing, 2009). The Flash Forward serves as a platform for non-Asian directors to extend globally.
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 BIFF News: Wakamatsu Koji Selected as the Recipient of ‘Asian Filmmaker of the Year Award’ 37 weeks 6 days ago
SEOUL, South Korea -- The 17th Busan International Film Festival selected Wakamatsu Koji as the 2012 ‘Asian Filmmaker of the Year.’ The ‘Asian Filmmaker of the Year Award’, has been annually presented since the 8th BIFF to an Asian filmmaker who has contributed to the development of Asian culture and the Asian film industry. Past recipients include Iran’s Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Taiwan’s Hou Hsiao Hsien, Hong Kong’s Andy Lau, and Hong Kong’s Tsui... |
 BIFF News: New Currents Section Jury Unveiled 38 weeks 16 hours ago
SEOUL, South Korea -- Presided over by Béla Tarr, the New Currents jury members have been selected from renowned international film figures. The juries will give the New Currents Award to promising Asian film talent.
Tarr, the chair of the New Currents jury 2012 is a Hungarian master filmmaker. Best known for his slow black-and-white films and the use of long takes, Tarr’s films such as Damnation, Satan’s Tango, Werckmeister Harmonies... |
 BIFF News: Flash Forward Jury Members Selected 38 weeks 1 day ago
SEOUL, South Korea -- The 17th Busan International Film Festival has finalized jurors for Flash Forward, a competitive section for films by non-Asian directors. Along with New Currents, Flash Forward, which was created in 2009, searches for new promising cineastes who have completed their first or second works.
The Jury head of Flash Forward is Mexican director Arturo Ripstein,the only director to have inherited Luis Bunnel’s mantle. Ripstein... |
 BIFF News: Call for Applications to the 2012 Asian Actors Academy (AAA) 38 weeks 1 day ago
SEOUL, South Kroea -- Entering its 8th edition, the Asian Film Academy (AFA) is an intensive film academy committed to discovering and fostering Asian film talent. In particular, 2012 was marked by a surprising number of applicants. With the success of the AFA, the Busan International Film Festival set out new initiatives by enhancing its established film education programs, and created an intensive acting academy - the Asian Actors Academy (AAA).
The AAA is looking for... |
 Busan International Film Festival Announces the Korean Cinema Award Recipient 39 weeks 4 hours ago
SEOUL, South Korea -- Hayashi Kanako has played crucial role in the introduction of Korean Cinema to Japanese film professionals. FILMeX has supported Korean cinema through the introduction of various Korean films to the Japanese film market. She has helped Korean Cinema embark on a wider chapter in Japan and Asia. The Busan International Film Festival appreciates her contribution to the advancement of Korean cinema in the international film industry and acknowledges her efforts with the... |
 Spielberg and Eastwood Film Fest at the Busan Cinema Center 39 weeks 19 hours ago
BUSAN, South Korea -- The Busan Cinema Center is running an Eastwood and Spielberg movie festival starting Thursday, highlighting 16 of the pairs best films over the past 40 years in cinema.
The two-week event of films costs 6,000 won per film, or 4,000 won for Cinematheque members.
We don't know who came up with the idea for this, but kudos to them for bringing Clint and Steve together in this unlikely pairing of two greats.
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 Two Whisky Shots and a Pint of Kimchi, Please 40 weeks 2 days ago
BUSAN, South Korea -- Maybe weirder than the concept of “kimchi beer” is the fact that two separate brewhouses decided to invent it simultaneously. Two breweries in different countries—Beau’s All Natural Brewing Company, a tiny microbrewery in Vankleet Hill, Ontario, and Barry’s Homebrew Outlet in Philadelphia—tried integrating kimchi into a spicy new beer, working over the experiment for a few weeks in June. In a funny way the combination makes sense,... |
