The Busan Worldwide Movie Pageant (BIFF) is lining up Korean Cinema programmer Jung Hanseok for its new competition director position, although the choice course of isn’t but full.
The competition has named Jung as its most popular candidate, and revealed that the ultimate choice course of will happen on the second basic assembly of this 12 months, scheduled for March 20 on the Busan Cinema Heart.
Jung has served because the competition’s Korean movies programmer since 2019 and served as a jury member for the Buil Movie Awards, Jeonju Worldwide Movie Pageant and Seoul Unbiased Movie Pageant, and as an advisor for the Florence Korea Movie Pageant and Hong Kong’s Asian Movie Awards.
BIFF skilled a tumultuous 2023, throughout which 4 managers resigned. Then-BIFF chairman Lee Yong-kwan appointed an in depth affiliate, Cho Jongkook, as Managing Director alongside Creative Director Huh Moonyung, a choice that proved extremely unpopular with some sectors of the native Korean movie business.
Wanting towards the long run, the competition mentioned that Jung has been “spotlighting tendencies in Korean cinema and bridging the home movie business with the competition” by means of his work as a programmer for the final six years. Beforehand, Jung labored as a journalist and movie critic with Korean movie publication Cine21.
The competition’s Government Suggestion Committee performed two rounds of open recruitment for the competition director place, in January and March this 12 months, with two candidates ultimately really helpful for the place.
BIFF Chairperson Park Kwang-su chosen Jung as the ultimate candidate, with the choice committee comprising of seven members with balanced illustration throughout areas, fields and genders, the competition said.
Park was appointed to the chairperson position only one 12 months in the past and made his mark as an acclaimed filmmaker from the Korean New Wave. He was a founding member of BIFF and the competition’s Deputy Director for 3 consecutive years from its first version.
