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- Mise-en-scène Short Film Festival Welcomes Record Submissions
- by Pierce Conran / Apr 06, 2016
- 1037 Films Entered for 15th Edition
The Mise-en-scène Short Film Festival (MSFF) received a record 1,037 submissions to its ‘Genre Imagination’ competition sections by the time that its application period came to an end on March 21st. This beats the 926 entry benchmark set by its 11th edition in 2012. MSFF will stage its 15th edition over June 23rd to 27th this summer.The festival’s competitive genre lineup has added one more category this year, a ‘Sixth Sense’ program which will focus on films that don’t fall into the existing five categories, which are: ‘A City of Sadness’ (films with a social viewpoint), ‘A Short Film about Love’ (melodrama), ‘The King of Comedy’ (comedy), ‘The Extreme Nightmare’ (horror/fantasy) and ‘The 40,000 Blows’ (action/thriller). Winners from each section will receive a KRW 5 million (USD 4,330) cash prize.
Among notable previous winners, the 2014 awardee in The Extreme Nightmare section, JANG Jae-hyun’s 12th Assistant Deacon was expanded into last year’s enormously successful exorcism thriller The Priests with KIM Yun-seok and GANG Dong-won. GANG served on the jury which awarded the short during the 13th edition.
The committee that runs MSFF is a veritable who’s who of directing talent in the Korean film industry, which includes BONG Joon-ho, PARK Chan-wook, KIM Jee-woon and RYOO Seung-wan, among many others.
MSFF will announce its competition lineup for this year during the first week of May.
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