'The 4th PiFan that started with the specific sub-themes of 'Freedom, Resistance and Insurrection' was held on the matured basis of experience that is accumulated for 3 times of event, stable financial support and others in a way of being recognized as the international film festival that represents Korea and, at the same time, it was an event to establish the image of 'Culture City Bucheon' through the film festival.
This Festival removed many unnecessary protocol

events in its official events, but it was organized with the focus on the films showing on the opening and closing events in a way of displaying the intention in the Film Festival, and it was the event that considered the most for audiences to enjoy the fun and convenience with the implementation of designated seating system, shuttle bus system, character product sales by using the character fantasy. As for features of the 4th Film Festival, the competition part that was called until the previous year as 『Puchon Choice』 was turned into the 『Official Competition Part』and it selected the films that represented PiFan for all long and short work products and awarded for 8 works and the movie section organized under the name of 『World Fantastic Cinema』 was classified in sub-sections to show in 『World Fantastic Cinema』, 『Restricted Zone』 and 『Movie Plaza』 to show in an effort to expand the audience classes to enable movie makers, movie manias and general public at large in zamily unit as the civil festival.

 information
When: 13 - 21 July, 2000 (9 days)
Screening Venues: Bucheon City Hall, Citizen's Hall, Boksagol Cultural
         Center, Sohyangkwan, Kogang Social Welfare Center / Bucheon City Hall
         Front Lawn Outdoor Screen.  Total 5 places, 5 screening rooms  
         total 3,265 seats
Screened Films: 141 films from 30 countries (feature 88, short 53)
         (Asia 14, Korea 29, Europe 68, America 24, Oceania 5, Etc. 1)
Opening Film: American Psycho (USA, Marry Harron)
Closing Film: A Nightmare (Korea, Ahn Byung-gi)
Invited Guests: 706 guests (domestic 568 guests, foreign 120 guests)
GA (Q&A with directors): 35 times
Total Number of Audience: 197,479 people
MegaTalk: 4 times, participant 281 people
         "Kim Ki-duk's Megatalk" (Kim Ki-duk & Zeong Chosin)
         "Brian O'Hara's Megatalk" (Brian O'Hara & Timothy Merrill)
         "Being a Woman Filmmaker in Chungmuro"
          (Yu Gina, Lee Mi-rye, Shim Jae-myung, Lee Hye-eun, Kim Yoon-hee)
         "Screen Quota Megatalk" (Zeong Chosin & Yang Gi-hwan)
Symposium :
         "How Do We Going to Watch a Slasher Films?"
         "Memory of the Late Choi Moo-ryong - Eternal Lover,
          the Late Choi Moo-ryong"
Cine-Rock Night:
         Rock' N' Roll Frankenstein
         - Rainy Sun / Crying Nut & Johnny Royal / Sinawee
         The Filth and the Fury - No Brain / The 3rd Line Butterfly / Giks
         Sugar Town - Heady Mama / Uhuhboo Project / Han Young-ae
         That's the Way I Like It - Wipher / Jeong Kyeong-hwa / Deul Kook Hwa
Festival Lady: Bae Doon-na

 Award Winners:
Best of Puchon: The Ugliest Woman in the World (Spain, Miguel Bardem)
Jury's Choice: The Nameless (Spain, Jaume Balguero)
Best Director Choice: Masahiro Shinoda (Japan, Owl's Castle)
Best Actor Choice: Pascal Greggory
         (Belgium, Why Get Married the Day the World Ends, Harry Cleven)
Best Actress Choice: Sara Dogg Asgeirsdottir
         (Iceland, Witchcraft, Hrafn Gunnlaugsson)
Citizen's Choice: Tuvalu (Germany, Veit Helmer)
Unitel Award- Grand Prize for Short Film: The Periwig-Maker
         (Germany, Steffen Shaeffler)
Citizen's Choice for Short Film: Black XXX-mas
         (Belgium, Pieter Van Hees)
Special Prize: The Late Choi Moo-ryong