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INDIESTORY Inc. is celebrating its 20th birthday this year. Through this event, retrospect on the past and examination on the present of short films will provide an outlook on the prospect for the future.

Industry personnel will gather at this event to examine the current trend of short films in comparison to the past, and point out do’s and don’ts of making a short film. Topics including the course of changes in production methods and on-set situations, popular short films throughout the previous years and how they came to earn positive reactions, based on which the prospect for Korean short films will be discussed as well. Furthermore, the question on how to attract attention from film festivals and markets in Korea and overseas and their selection criteria will be dealt with in an open atmosphere by industry personnel specializing in short films, directors, critics and film festival staffs.

The Asiana International Short Film Festival has been running “AISFF Fund Project” since 2005, a pre-production supporting program, to actively help and foster production of short films in Korea, and changed it to an open pitching program in 2014.

This year, out of 111 entries, 6 films passed the document examination and promoted to the final. The 6 films will go through mentoring of preliminary jury members and presentation education from expert instructors. After the open pitching during the festival, final winners will be selected.

The winner of the “AISFF Fund Award” will receive up to 10 million KRW and the winner of “China Cultural Center in Seoul Award” will be given 5 million KRW as a production support prize. The winners will be announced at the closing ceremony.