The Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival History
Puchon
Choice Jury (Feature)
Bob CLARK (Chairperson)
Bob Clark has fashioned
an amazingly versatile career
and directed various works
such as <Christmas Story>,
<Porky's>, <Superbabies>,
and etc. Bob himself has
garnered two Genies Canadian
Academy Awards for Best
Director for <Murder
by Decree> and <Christmas
Story>, which also won
for Best Picture. In additon,
Bob
has two Writers Guild
nominations for Best Screenplay,
an Ace nomination for <Arthur
Miller's American Clock>
and numerous festival awards
for Best Picture. In addition
Bob's classic <Deathdream>(1974)
was honored in 2003 by the
Lincoln Center Film Society
as one of the scared horror
films in history.
Brain YUZNA
In 1989, Brain YUZUNA
made his debut as a director
with the film <Society>,
His representative films
include <Re-animator>,
which is about a modern
Frankenstein, a new splatter
horror style and black humor
satire that enjoyed critical
and commercial acclaim.
He gained fame while directing
films, <From Beyond>
and <Dolls>
with Stuart Gordon (Chairman
of the Awarding Committee
in PiFan2004). And, there
are a lot of cult followers
of <Bride of Re-animator>
and <The Return of the
Living Dead¥²> in Korea.
Gérard DELORME
Gérard DELORME
made his debut as a journalist
and chronicler in 1985.
He has been writing about
films in various french
magazines including the
original <Starfix>
and the now defunct city
magazine <7 a Paris>.
He joined <Premiere>
in 1996, and was appointed
deputy editor in chief since
1998.
Gu Su Yeon
GU Su Yeon was born in
1961, Yamaguchi-Ken as a
second-generation Korean
resident in Japan. He debuted
as a director at the age
of 26. He established GOO
TV Company Ltd. in 1994.
He is the best-known CF
director in Japan and works
as a music producer, music
video director, lyrics writer
and novelist. He
debuted with the film
<Worst by Chance>.
PARK Chul Soo
PARK Chul Soo is the
representative director
of Korea who puts social
contradiction and difficulties
on the screen comically
and audaciously with his
new experimental spirit.
He made his debut in 1979
with the film <The Rain
that Falls Every Night>,
receiving two Best New Director
Awards, at the Baek Sang
Art Award
and the Daejong Film
Festival in the same year.
<301, 302> was distributed
world wide, the first time
for a Korean film, and <Farewell
My Darling> received
the Best Artistic Contribution
at the Montreal World Film
Festival. <Bong-ja>
is the first digital feature
film in Korea, <Green
Chair>, the first film
that used 3D sound effects
in Korea, and he established
the PARK Chul Soo Film Academy
for new filmmakers. Director
PARK has contributed to
the development of the Korean
film industry in a qualitative
way.
Stephen Cremin
In 1998 Stephen Cremin
founded the London Pan-Asian
Film Festival, which included
retrospectives to KIM Ki
Young (1998) and Asano TADANOBU
(1999), In 2000 he launched
an Asian film industry newsletter
in Hong Kong, In 2001, he
joined the Far East Film
Festival in Udine, Italy,
as senior programmer. Based
in
Taipei, he writes on
the Taiwan and South Korean
film industry for Screen
International and Variety
International Film Guide.
Puchon
Choice Jury (Shorts)
AHN Byung Ki (Chairperson)
After majoring in film
at the Seoul Institution
of the Arts, AHN Byung Ki
worked as an assistant director
in the films <White Badge>,
<Life of Hollywood Kid>,
<Black Jack> and <Naked
Begin>, which were all
directed by Jeong Ji Young
and on which he honed his
production skills. He made
his debut in 2000 with the
film
<Scissors>, a juvenile
horror, then went on to
direct the feature film
<Phone> in 2002, which
is about a telephone. He
established 'Toilet Pictures',
specializing in the production
of horror films. He has
consistently shown his passion
for traditional horror movies.
His third horror feature
film, <BUNSHINSABA>,
was the closing film at
the Puchon International
Fantastic Film Festival
in 2004. He is currently
directing the film <Apartment>
to be released in November
2006.
Tomas RISKALA
Since 2000, Tuomas RISKALA
has been director of the
fantastic section at the
Espoo Cine International
Film Festival that Finland's
biggest film festival with
a feature competition. He
is a member of the Finnish
Film Academy, whose members
vote for the Jussi Awards
- Finnish Oscars. Before
PiFan, he was jury at
Fantasporto: Oporto International
Film Festival in Portugal,
member of the international
jury in Fantastik Film Festival
in Sweden, and etc. He is
also one of the main critics
and journalist of the leading
finnish film magazine, HoheoEpisodi.
LEE Young Ho
LEE Young Ho is working
as a Music Director. He
had been working with famous
Korean directors for <Clio
ldiots>(2002), <Wet
Dream>(2005), <Charming
Girl>(2005), <Taekwon
Boys>, <Spin Kick>(2004),
<No Blood No Tears>(2002),
<Coming Out>(2000),
<Paradise Villa>(2000),
<The Spy>(1999), add
etc. He
made such an excellent
career with many films.
Alex INFASCELLI
Alex INFASCELLI directed
numerous music videos while
he was doing his music.
As a production assistant,
he participated in the music
videos 'Black and White'
featuring Michael Jackson,
'Ceram' and 'Diamonds and
Pearls' featuring Prince,
and 'Alive' featuring Pearl
Jan. Then, he went back
to Italy to
pursue his career as
a music video director.
His film <All Most Blue>(2000),
a serial-killer thriller,
received the Best New Director
Award, and he instantly
gained fame as a thriller
film director. He released
the film <The Vanity
Serum> in 2004.
KIM Jin Hee
KIM Jin Hee received
her Ph.D. in Comparative
Literature from Indiana
University. She is Assistant
Professor of Korean and
Comparative Literature at
the University of Southern
California, Los Angeles.
Also, she is serving as
the President of the Los
Angeles Korean International
Film Festival (LAKIFF).