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Big Names Present New Works at APM
  

In the lead up this year’s Busan International Film Festival (BIFF), the Asian Project Market (APM) is also gearing up and has just announced the 30 projects that will make up this year’s official selection. Some of the biggest names in Korean cinema, both new and old, will join a wide swath of world cinema luminaries with their new works in Busan this October.

 

The largest co-production and investment market in Asia, APM seeks to bring promising projects and investors together. To date, some 200 former APM projects have found their way to the silver screen. Among those are LEE Changdong’s acclaimed Poetry, the Best Screenplay awardee at the Cannes Film Festival in 2010, Bong Joon Ho’s global blockbuster Snowpiercer and last year’s Venice Golden Lion winner, TSAI Min-liang’s Stray Dogs.
 
Seven of this year’s projects are homegrown, including Pokarekare Ana: Yeon-ga, the latest work from auteur SON Il-gon, which will be a Korea-New Zealand co-production. Also participating will be some of Korea’s younger star directors, such as Pluto’s Shin Su-won with Blue Sunset and The Fake’s YEON Sangho with The Family Ground, both of whom have had works at Cannes and Busan in the past, and July Jung, who debuted with this year’s Cannes invitee A Girl at My Door, who will be taking part with Dora.
  
Filipino arthouse auteur Brillante Mendoza (Kinatay, 2009), Last Life in the Universe (2003) director Pen-ek Ratanaruang and Mostofa Sarwar Farooki, the Bangladeshi director of last year’s BIFF close Television, are just some of the international auteurs who will also be taking part in the three day event at the BEXCO Exhibition Center in Busan this fall.