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- Asian Cinema Fund 2013 Open for Submissions
- by Pierce Conran / Apr 01, 2013
- Support Fund Sees Increase
The Asian Cinema Fund, a branch of the Busan International Film Festival, has sent out its call for submissions for this year’s edition. ACN is seeking new projects from talented young filmmakers looking for funding support in order to boost independent film production in the region.
Projects in need of DI, sound mixing, and Digital Cinema Package services as well as the use of state-of-the-art facilities in Korea, can avail of ACF’s Post-production Fund. For projects in the pre-productions stage, ACF’s Script Development Fund will give a 10,000,000 KRW (approx. USD 10,000) to three Korean projects and five Asian projects deemed to have promise.
The Asian Network of Documentaries (AND) has boosted its support this year for Asian and Korean documentary projects. The BIFF Mecenat Fund will have 140,000,000 KRW (approx. USD 140,000) this year which it will use to support Korean and Asian documentary projects. To decision to increase funding was made due to the success of recent ACF funded projects such as Jiseul, Anxiety and 5 Broken Cameras.ACN’s Post-production Fund deadline is set for April 20th while the last call for the Script Development and Asian Network of Documentary Funds will be May 10th. Here are the details to apply:
Asian Cinema Fund 2013 is accepting project submissions now
Submission is through online (acf.biff.kr) and previous film works and/or rough cut for consideration should be sent by post to Busan International Film Festival (Seoul office).▶ Submission inquiries
Busan International Film Festival Asian Cinema Fund (ACF) coordinator
Tel: +82-2-3675-5097
E-mail: acf@biff.kr (Script Development Fund, Post-production Fund) / and@biff.kr (Asian Network of Documentary Fund)
Address: 5th Floor, Seven Bldg., 13-21 Namsan-dong 3-ga, Jung-gu, Seoul 100-043, Korea▶ Submission details and online application
acf.biff.kr18th Busan International Film Festival will be held Thursday, October 3, 2013 to Saturday, October 12, 2013. Asian Film Market and Asian Project Market will be held Monday, October 7, 2013 to Thursday, October 10, 2013.Busan International Film Festival: www.biff.kr
E-mail: foreignpress@biff.kr
Publicity: +82-2-3675-5097
Manager Yun KIM: +82-10-8958-3272
Young In CHUNG: +82-10-5355-1719
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