[Filmfestivalresearch] Busan Int'l Film Festival :TBC

[Melanie Le Forestier]

My apologies for this second message! I couldn't answer on Jiseok Kim's FB
page, but I saw that you asked, below a picture of one of the filmmakers
with a sign, who he is. He's the Korean filmmaker Lee Sang-il (he's
Zaichini Korean actually).

And the sign basically says "Save the movies/the Cinema; Save the Culture;
Save the Busan International Film Festival! - Lee Sang-il".

I also read the two last Korean articles Kim Jiseok posted, the most recent
one is about the issue of comfort women, but the one below is a Korean
version of the articles I sent previously on the charges against BIFF.
Spectators and activists are also protesting, asking the city government to
drop the charges against the organizers.

Best regards,

Melanie


2015-12-29 13:02 GMT+01:00 Dina Iordanova <dina.iordanova at st-andrews.ac.uk>:

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> Dear all,
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> The crisis that has been brewing with BIFF for a while (and which I had
> hoped to be over) seems to have picked up now and descended to new lows.
> I am not able to say precisely what are the events, but for two days now I
> see on Facebook postings by Jiseok Kim that display scenes of protest and
> feature photos of a variety of Asian directors who display signs in
> support of BIFF and ask for the festival to be 'saved'. Apparently things
> have gone worse, not better. The other person who has posted very
> persuasively is Gothenburg festival's Freddy Olsson, whose posts again can
> be seen on his timeline at Facebook.
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> I wonder if there is some subscriber to this list server who can explain
> what precisely is going on?
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> And also if there is some sort of community behind this forum, would we
> like to say something?
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> Greetings from Istanbul, where the somber feeling on matters regarding
> festivals is pretty much the same like in South Korea, as far as I can
> tell.
>
> Dina
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> Dina Iordanova FRSA
> Professor of Global Cinema and Creative Cultures
> Director, Institute for Global Cinema and Creative Cultures (IGCCC)
> http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/globalcinema
> https://www.facebook.com/staigccc
> Publisher, St Andrews Film Studies
> University of St Andrews, Scotland
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