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Busan To Open With Park Chan-wook’s Netflix Title ‘Uprising’, Close With Eric Khoo’s ‘Spirit World’; Kiyoshi Kurosawa Named Asian Filmmaker Of The Year
Gang Dong-won and Park Jeong-min star in Uprising, produced by Park for Netflix, Japan's Kiyoshi Kurosawa named Asian Filmmaker of the Year.
Special Programs in Focus include Miguel Gomes, who won best director at Cannes this year for Grand Tour, and previously announced special programs ‘Teen Spirit, Teen Movie’, screening Asian coming-of-age films including Tiger Stripes, City Of Wind, My Sunshine and Happyend; and ‘In Memory of Lee Sun-kyun’, remembering the Parasite actor who died by suicide at the end of last year. Busan’s industry platform, Asian Contents and Film Market(ACFM), has added a Producer Hub, which has set Korea as the Focus Country for its inaugural edition, and will also host AI and streaming-related seminars. In addition, Busan’s Asia Contents Awards & Global OTT Awards, which recognise TV and streaming content, will be held on October 6 with PTS Taiwan’s Imperfect Us, Wong Kar Wai’s Blossoms Shanghai and Netflix’s Cigarette Girl and A Killer Paradox leading the nominations.
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