Previous projects include Cannes Critics’ Week winner ‘Tiger Stripes’.
South Korea’s Bucheon International Film Festival (Bifan), Asia’s largest genre film festival, has revealed 29 titles from 18 countries for this year’s Network of Asian Fantastic Films (Naff) project market.
The 17 titles selected for the It Project strand include Biraa from Taiwanese writer/director Bhaskar Hazarika, whose transgressive love story Ravening played Tribeca in 2019.
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Naff received 279 submissions from 40 countries, up nearly 30% from 217 projects in 2022. One-to-one meetings will take place with producers, investors, and distributors from June 30 to July 3.
This year, Naff will expand its support...
South Korea’s Bucheon International Film Festival (Bifan), Asia’s largest genre film festival, has revealed 29 titles from 18 countries for this year’s Network of Asian Fantastic Films (Naff) project market.
The 17 titles selected for the It Project strand include Biraa from Taiwanese writer/director Bhaskar Hazarika, whose transgressive love story Ravening played Tribeca in 2019.
Scroll down for full list
Naff received 279 submissions from 40 countries, up nearly 30% from 217 projects in 2022. One-to-one meetings will take place with producers, investors, and distributors from June 30 to July 3.
This year, Naff will expand its support...
- 5/31/2023
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Bifan will open with Cannes horror title Men and close with the world premiere of Jung Bum-shik’s New Normal.
The 26th Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (Bifan) will open with British director Alex Garland’s Cannes horror title Men and close with the world premiere of Korean director Jung Bum-shik’s New Normal.
At a press conference in Seoul today (June 14), Bifan organizers announced it will screen 268 titles from 49 countries. Of these, 80 titles will be world premieres and 20 international premieres.
Bifan will run July 7-17 with the awards ceremony and closing film screening on July 14.
The festival plans to...
The 26th Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (Bifan) will open with British director Alex Garland’s Cannes horror title Men and close with the world premiere of Korean director Jung Bum-shik’s New Normal.
At a press conference in Seoul today (June 14), Bifan organizers announced it will screen 268 titles from 49 countries. Of these, 80 titles will be world premieres and 20 international premieres.
Bifan will run July 7-17 with the awards ceremony and closing film screening on July 14.
The festival plans to...
- 6/14/2022
- by Jean Noh
- ScreenDaily
The Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival (PiFan) has announced six Thai works from rising filmmakers for this year’s Project Spotlight in the Network of Asian Fantastic Films (Naff).
PiFan’s Project Spotlight takes a different Asian country each year to focus on selected genre film projects.
The seventh edition of Naff lauds Thailand as recently “running strong with its genre films of unique subject matters and techniques” and the filmmakers for the six selected projects as up-and-coming on the international stage.
Off his recent film Hong Hun featuring Ananda Everingham, Kulp Kaljareuk will bring mystery thriller Fallen Thailand as his next feature, with Nattaporn Kaljareuk producing. With shades of political commentary, the story is set in 2035 and features a Thai boxer battling zombies in a quarantined hospital to save his wife, a nurse, and help a lost child find his mother.
Director Nuttorn Kungwanklai, whose horror omnibus 9-9-81 screened at last year’s Udine Far East...
PiFan’s Project Spotlight takes a different Asian country each year to focus on selected genre film projects.
The seventh edition of Naff lauds Thailand as recently “running strong with its genre films of unique subject matters and techniques” and the filmmakers for the six selected projects as up-and-coming on the international stage.
Off his recent film Hong Hun featuring Ananda Everingham, Kulp Kaljareuk will bring mystery thriller Fallen Thailand as his next feature, with Nattaporn Kaljareuk producing. With shades of political commentary, the story is set in 2035 and features a Thai boxer battling zombies in a quarantined hospital to save his wife, a nurse, and help a lost child find his mother.
Director Nuttorn Kungwanklai, whose horror omnibus 9-9-81 screened at last year’s Udine Far East...
- 6/17/2014
- by hjnoh2007@gmail.com (Jean Noh)
- ScreenDaily
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