Evaluating the beauty of short films!

The 32nd Busan International Short Film Festival selects the juries for “Competition: International Competition & Korean Competition”, “NETPAC AWARD”, and “Operation Kino”

The Busan International Short Film Festival Organizing Committee announced 9 juries for the 3 sections in the 32ndBusan International Short Film Festival: “Competition: International & Korean”, “Operation Kino”, and “NETPAC AWARD”.

In order to provide better opportunity to showcase a more diverse collection of Korean films, Busan International Short Film Festival has divided the official competition section into International Competition and Korean Competition. The official competition will see a competition among 62 original, creative and challenging short films from 27 countries around the world.

The juries for International Competition are: ▲OkajimaHisashi, head curator of the National Museum of Modern Art of Tokyo National Film Center (NFC), ▲ Lee Myungse, renowned Korean film director, with films like Soon after, through Nowhere to Hide (1999), and ▲PatrikEklund, Swedish short film director under the most spotlight, who directed Abracadabra (2008).

(International Competition Juries: (From left to right) OkajimaHisashi, Lee Myungse, PatrikEklund)

(Korean Competition & Operation Kino Juries: (From left to right) KatjaWiederspahn, Lee Dongha, NiclasGillberg)

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Juries for the Korean Competition and Operation Kino, which was designed to support the future of Busan filmmakers by the Busan International Short Film Festival and Busan Jung-gu Office, have also been selected among those prominent in various fields.

In the spotlight are ▲KatjaWiederspahn, head programmer of the Vienna International Film Festival, ▲ Producer Lee Dongha, who produced Lee Changdong’sPoetry(2010), which won the Award for Best Screenplay at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival, and Jang Joonhwan’sHwayi: A Monster Boy, and ▲NiclasGillberg, Festival Director of Uppsala International Short Film Festival and jury member of the Swedish National Film Award Guldbaggen.

(NETPAC Award Juries: (From left to right) Philip Cheah, Kim Mookyu, Ismail Basbeth)

The juries for NETPAC AWARD, established this year, were also chosen among film experts recognized at home and abroad.

▲Philip Cheah, consultant for the leading film festivals around the world such as the Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival, andResistance International Film Festival in Lebanon, and advisor for the Hanoi International Film Festival, ▲ Kim Mookyu, assistant professor in the Department of Mass Communication at Pukyong National University, and researcher of film theory and media theory, and ▲Ismail Basbeth,renowned as short and feature film director in various leading film festivals around the world, and also the program director at the Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival.

Busan International Short Film Festival’s Head Programmer Hong Yongjoo said that she expects “the 9 film experts invited from around the world will select the films that well portray the beauty sought by the Busan International Short Film Festival and which only exists in short films, through a rigorous and keen evaluation.” She also revealed, “through the evaluation by the juries, we will work hard to promote Korean short films abroad.”

Meanwhile, tickets reservations for the 32nd? Busan International Short Film Festival, which is held for 5 days from April 24 to 28, can be made beginning on April 13 at the Busan Cinema Center website.