Successful opening of the 1st KOFIC industry forum
KOFIC Industry Forum was held during the 17th
Busan Intenational Film Festival (BIFF) in hopes to find a way to revitalize international co-production from) Oct.8-10. First time being held, it was co-sponsored by Korea Film Council and Asian Film Market.
The theme of the 1st Industry Forum was ‘international co-production’. “Since domestic market is being saturated, thought it was time we moved on the foreign markets, and this is why we came up with this theme“ said HAN Sang-hee, manager from the International co-production team.
On this forum, seminars, presentations, meetings with Korean film projects that are seeking for international co-productions and pam tours to Busan film locations and post-production facilitations have been done.
The two topics for the seminars were ‘Co-production with Asia’ where a number of overseas producers with international co-production experience have been invited to find out ways to make co-productions possible between Asian and non-Asian countries and ‘Outlook of the international co-production development in Korea China and Japan’ where significance and boxoffice hits were analysed.
A presentation on ‘Introduction of the international co-production financing’ to think about forms and methods of investments on co-productions through overseas private financing cases also caught attentions from cineastes as well.
A several business meetings to supported by KOFIC were actively being done. The 12 films that attended the meetings were
ROH Gyeong-tae’s
Black Stones, LEE Young-mi’s
Blood of Killers (TBD), LEE Jong-seok’s
Forbidden, producer OH Eun-sil’s The Glasses, PARK Yu-hwan’s
JL351, This Is Pyongyang Airport!!,
HUR Jin-ho’s
The Last Princess (Working Title), YUN Hong-seung’s
Love & Lingrie,
KIM Baek-jun’s
Monsters, producer
LEE Joon-dong’s
Raging Boy,
Hwai, producer LEE Yong-hee’s
Sammy Lee, SHIN Chan-bi’s
Where Are You from, and producer KIM Wan-sik’s
Youku Love.
KOFIC Industry Forum ended on Oct.10 by visiting some of the film locations in Busan and post-production sites with invited guests. The manager HAN Sang-hee evaluated the forum saying “through this forum we were able to introduce the world wide flow of the international co-production and actually strengthen the possibility of our contents to be co-produced. KOFIC Industry Forum is planned to be held every year with different themes.
KOFIC Industry Forum was held during the 17th Busan Intenational Film Festival (BIFF) in hopes to find a way to revitalize international co-production from) Oct.8-10. First time being held, it was co-sponsored by Korea Film Council and Asian Film Market.The theme of the 1st Industry Forum was ‘international co-production’. “Since domestic market is being saturated, thought it was time we moved on the foreign markets, and this is why we came up with this theme“ said HAN Sang-hee, manager from the International co-production team.On this forum, seminars, presentations, meetings with Korean film projects that are seeking for international co-productions and pam tours to Busan film locations and post-production facilitations have been done.The two topics for the seminars were ‘Co-production with Asia’ where a number of overseas producers with international co-production experience have been invited to find out ways to make co-productions possible between Asian and non-Asian countries and ‘Outlook of the international co-production development in Korea China and Japan’ where significance and boxoffice hits were analysed.A presentation on ‘Introduction of the international co-production financing’ to think about forms and methods of investments on co-productions through overseas private financing cases also caught attentions from cineastes as well.A several business meetings to supported by KOFIC were actively being done. The 12 films that attended the meetings were ROH Gyeong-tae’s Black Stones, LEE Young-mi’s Blood of Killers (TBD), LEE Jong-seok’s Forbidden, producer OH Eun-sil’s The Glasses, PARK Yu-hwan’s JL351, This Is Pyongyang Airport!!, HUR Jin-ho’s The Last Princess (Working Title), YUN Hong-seung’s Love & Lingrie, KIM Baek-jun’s Monsters, producer LEE Joon-dong’s Raging Boy, Hwai, producer LEE Yong-hee’s Sammy Lee, SHIN Chan-bi’s Where Are You from, and producer KIM Wan-sik’s Youku Love.KOFIC Industry Forum ended on Oct.10 by visiting some of the film locations in Busan and post-production sites with invited guests. The manager HAN Sang-hee evaluated the forum saying “through this forum we were able to introduce the world wide flow of the international co-production and actually strengthen the possibility of our contents to be co-produced. KOFIC Industry Forum is planned to be held every year with different themes.
