After soldiering through COVID with hybrid editions, South Korea’s Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (BiFan) is getting ready to hold a scaled-up, largely in-person festival beginning T…
) is getting ready to hold a scaled-up, largely in-person festival beginning Thursday, complete with a red-carpet opening ceremony and foreign visitors. But BiFan organizers say that the ground has moved under their feet., and BiFan head programmer Ellen Kim on the eve of the event.
Is the Korean film industry being permanently damaged, losing talent directors and actors and money to the TV and streaming sector?It is time to redefine the definition of the film. Why do you call “Squid Game” a TV series? But “Harry Potter” a film? What difficulties have you encountered putting on a festival so soon after Korea’s COVID restrictions were eased?For the last three years we had held the festival, albeit on a reduced scale and in hybrid mode. The in-person event was 90% reduced, but we held online screenings and online industry programs. So, this year, we are looking forward to a big and very festive festival.
The officials are very understanding of what culture has done for Bucheon city. Bucheon used to be a very, very bad city. It was where people pushed out of Seoul due to development came to settle. It was poor and on the outskirts of metropolitan Seoul. Factories followed because of cheap labor costs. And it was here that the labor movement took root, making Bucheon famous for strikes. There was a notorious police sexual harassment case here.
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