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Zhang Lu to Head Busan Film Festival’s Academy – Global Bulletin


Zhang Lu will head the annual academy at the Busan Film Festival, 'Old Fox' wins again, this time at the Taipei Film Awards.

Zhang has been making feature films since 2004, when his “Tang Poetry” won acclaim at the Locarno and Vancouver festivals. He has since made titles including “Grain in Ear” (2005), which won the New Currents Award at Busan, “Desert Dream” and the recent “The Shadowless Tower.” He was also a professor at Yonsei University for eight years. The film is a drama about an 11-year-old boy who befriends his landlord and learns how to survive in a rapidly changing world including things that his poverty-stricken father would never share.

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