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Asian Cinema Fund awards 27

Asian Cinema Fund awards 27

By Stephen Cremin

Mon, 08 July 2013, 23:50 PM (HKT)

Awards News

27 film projects, including 14 documentaries, are recipient in the latest round of the Busan International Film Festival 부산국제영화제's Asian Cinema Fund.

The awards are divided into three categories, supporting script development, post-production and documentaries. There were a total of 438 submissions, up 10% on last year, including 60 projects from India, 50 from China and 26 from Philippines.

In the Script Development Fund there are three South Korean projects and four Asian projects. The South Korean selection was particularly competitive this year with an 87% increase in submissions from local film-makers.

The three local directors — GOH Tae-jeong 고태정, KIM Geon 김건 and SHIM Hyeon-seok 심현석 — have a track record as short film directors and will develop their first feature films with the fund.

The festival has a broad definition of Asia, which includes Syria, awarding a script development fund to Soudade Kaadan's The Day I Lost My Shadow. The three other Asian projects originate from India, Philippines and Indonesia.

Five projects have been selected for the Post-Production Fund, three from South Korea and two from Asia.

They include, from Mongolia, Khoroldorj CHOIJOOVANCHIG's Yellow Colt (2013) and from Thailand, Lee CHATAMETIKOOL ลี ชาตะเมธีกุล's Concrete Clouds ภวังค์รัก (2013) (pictured). The latter has now completed shooting and is expected to be completed by October.

The South Korean projects — from SEO Ho-bin 서호빈, LEE Yu-bin 이유빈 and KIM Jae-han 김재한 | 金在漢, a former assistant director of HONG Sang-soo 홍상수 | 洪常秀 — are described as "artistically ambitious and clearly focused".

There are fourteen recipients within the Asian Network of Documentary Fund, of which five are South Korean projects, including new films by established film-makers IM Heung-sun 임흥순 and KIM Tae-il 김태일.

Established Asian documentary film-makers with support for their new documentary projects include China's DU Haibin 杜海濱, Singapore's TAN Pin Pin 陳彬彬 and Japan's NAKAMURA Takayuki 中村高寛.


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