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The Asian Project Market wrapped up its 2013 edition by recording a 16% rise in market badge holders (1,272) while a record 4,000 industry professionals visited the market floor. 198 companies were represented in 92 booths, each conducting 50 meetings on average. A total of 10,000 meetings took place with an estimated 150 of those expected to wind up with deals.

 

Meanwhile the Asian Project Market also came to an end by handing out nine sponsored awards (up from seven last year) during the Asian Film Market’s closing ceremony on Thursday, October 10th. Earning the top award (the Busan Prize) was KIM Jee-woon’s much-talked about Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade, a Korea-set remake of the 1999 Japanese anime of the same name by OKIURA Hiroyuki. The project, which was presented by KIM’s producer Lewis KIM, of Lewis Pictures Inc., in the market was awarded a USD 20,000 cash prize.

 

Following the top prize were the CJ Entertainment and Lotte Awards (both worth USD 10,000), which went to Benito Bautista’s Samuel Over the Rainbow and KANG Yi-kwan’s new project OTS Virus Project, respectively. The PanStar Cruise Award, KOCCA Award and Creative Director Award (from BIFF), each Development Fund prizes worth USD 10,000 were handed out to LEE Seo’s Have a Nice Trip!, Eron Sheean’s Australian End of Animal remake and Wayne WANG’s While the Women Are Sleeping, respectively.

 

A USD 25,000 post-production award from Technicolor Asia went to WANG Wei-ming’s Sex Appeal and ARTE International’s USD 6,000 development funding support prize was won by Edwin’s Exotic Pictures. Finally, the Funding 21 award, which selects a project for crowdfunding, went to Zhang LU’s Gyeongju.