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- 10th Jecheon International Music & Film Festival Confirms Its Jurors
- by PARK You-young / Aug 11, 2014
- 5 Selectied to Judge Trends in World Music’ Film Today
The 10th Jecheon International Music & Film Festival confirmed five jurors including director KIM Jee-woon and actress LIM Soo-jung to judge ‘World Music Film Today’s films, the only competition section of the film jubilee. The Korean judges include KIM Jee-woon, a leading director of the film noir genre Korean cinema with The Last Stand, I Saw the Devil (2010), The Good, the Bad, and the Weird (2008), and A Bittersweet Life (2004). Actress Actress LIM Soo-jung who showed stellar performances through All About My Wife (2012) and Come Rain, Come Shine (2011) is also part of the team, along with OH Jung-wan, President of Bom Film Productions who made Untold Scandal (2003) and The Foul King (2000).
The foreign judges are Petri VARIS, chairman of the Organizing Committee for Rockumentti Rock Film Festival which is the largest music-focused documentary festival in Finland and Norman WANG, a highly active Hong Kong-born media consultant and film publicist who works as an advisor for the Berlin and Shanghai International Film Festivals. The five jurors will take part in the opening ceremony and select two films as the grand prize and the special prize winners among six films during the festival. The grand prize winner will be screened as the closing film. The 10th Jecheon International Music & Film Festival will run for six days from August 14 to 19, with the screening of Golden Chariot in the Sky by O Muel as its opening film at an outdoor stage near Cheongpung Lake. The festival features 87 music films from 31 countries and musical performances by 30 teams in Jecheon, a city famous for its lakes.
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