6th Jeonju International Film Festival wraps up

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The Jeonju International Film Festival, which ranks as one of Korea's three biggest festivals, closed its latest edition with a screening of YIM Phil-sung's adventure/mystery Antarctic Journal on May 6. Featuring 176 films from 31 different countries, the latest edition of the festival was considered a critical and logistic success, featuring a large number of independent and digital films from around the world. The festival's top prizes were also given out at the ceremony. The Woosuk award for best film in the Indie Vision section went to Russian director Marina Razbezhkina for her film Harvest Time (2004), while the top prize in the Digital Spectrum section, the JJ Star award, was shared between Czech documentary Czech Dream (2004) by Vit Klusak and Filip Remunda and Chinese film Oxhide (2004) by Liu Jia Yi. Other awards included the JIFF Favorites Award for French director Philippe Muyl's The Butterfly, which was votedthe most popular film from the Cinemascape and Cinema Palace sections; and the Audience Critics' Award to Korean KIM Hee-chul's documentary The Gate of Truth. A total of 69,000 tickets were issued for this year's festival, which significantly passed the festival organizers' goal of 55,000. Including the 17,000 free tickets issued to ID holders, this comes out to a 79?eating rate for the festival as a whole.

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