Latest Busan news – Page 9
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NewsBusan appoints new heads of festival and market
Appointments follow the recent departure of Jay Jeon.
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NewsJay Jeon to exit as director of Busan International Film Festival
Jeon posted about his departure on social media, taking BIFF organisers by surprise.
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News‘A Balance’, ‘Three’ take New Currents awards at Busan film festival closing
BIFF managed to achieve physical admissions of 29,135 despite pandemic social distancing requirements.
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NewsBusan market wraps with ‘Commodity’ winning top award
Director Kislay’s Indian project is about an aspiring scriptwriter who accompanies a human hair trader to get material for his script.
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News‘Parasite’ wins top prize at Asian Film Awards
Wang Xiaoshuai took the best director prize for So Long, My Son.
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NewsCJ Entertainment, Library Pictures pact on local-language films
The two companies have entered into a slate co-financing deal for projects in Indonesia, Vietnam and Turkey.
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NewsNikkatsu seals string of deals on Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s ‘Wife Of A Spy’
Venice best director winner has gone to Portugal (Midas Filmes), Norway (Fidalgo) and Korea (M&M International), among other territories.
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News‘The Victims’ Game’, ‘The Bad Kids’ head nominations for Asia Contents Awards
Other nominees include Korean dramas such as Kingdom Season 2, The World Of The Married and Crash Landing On You
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NewsRediance picks up Busan New Currents title Summer Blur (exclusive)
Beijing-based sales agent has also added Asian Project Market title Lava to its slate.
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NewsBusan to open with ‘Septet: The Story Of Hong Kong’
The 25th Busan International Film Festival to close with animation ‘Josee, The Tiger And The Fish’.
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NewsBusan International Film Festival downsizes and postpones for two weeks
Festival will now be held October 21-30 in a “significantly downsized” version with no international guests.
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News'Parasite' heads nominations for first Asian Film Awards hosted by Busan
The Asian Film Awards Academy has decided to announce the winners online on October 14.
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NewsBusan’s Asian Project Market to move online; unveils 2020 selection
New projects from Cannes label directors Wei Shujun and Koji Fukada among line-up.
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NewsBusan’s Asian Contents & Film Market to run as hybrid event
Film market portion will be held entirely online with market booths and screenings on a web-based platform free of charge.
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NewsAGC Studios to finance, Ridley Scott to EP prison thriller ‘Panopticon’
Production earmarked for autumn start; project out to casting.
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NewsBusan awards top prizes to ‘Rom’, ‘Haifa Street’, ‘Moving On’
Vietnamese drama ‘Rom’ shared the top New Currents award with Iraqi drama ‘Haifa Street’
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NewsClover Films takes ‘Your Love Song’ for multiple territories
Romantic drama is Andrew Chien’s first film since 2015 hit Go Lala Go 2.
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NewsProduction wraps on Busan war on drugs project 'A Violet Night' (exclusive)
Rebecca Lundgren, Joshua Sobel produce gritty US-Philippines drama.
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NewsFree Stone flows with Yoshinari Nishikori duo
‘The Takatsu River’ stars Masahiro Koumoto and ‘Meeting Myself’ stars Takahiro and Keiko Matsuzaka
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NewsKorea’s More In Group introduces ‘comfort woman’ drama to market
Based on a stage play, historical drama ’Chima:embrace’ is in pre-production.