13th PiFan Wraps with Awards
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The 13th edition of the Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival has wrapped with winners announced at the closing ceremony on Thursday July 23. Capturing the top prize in the international competition section, Indonesian horror was The Forbidden Door by Joko ANWAR picking up the "Best of Puchon" award. Best director went to Dane LAM for The Beast Stalker.
Korean film, "The Neighbor Zombie", was also honoured in this section. The ultra low-budget omnibus horror, won both the Jury's Choice award and the Prugio Citizen's Choice prize. Among the Korean shorts screening at PiFan, "Dust Kid" by JUNG Yu-mi won the Best Korean Short Film prize. The Puchon Shorts international jury handed the Best Short Film award to US director Richard Gale's The Horribly Slow Murder with the Extremely Inefficient Weapon while also handing a Special Mention award to "Dust Kid".
Winner of the European Fantastic Film Festival Federation Asian Award was Thai film Chocolate by Prachya Pinkaew. 2 new awards were added to PiFan this year. The winner of PiFan's first NETPAC award was 8000 Miles by IRIE Yu of Japan. The winner of the inaugural Fujifilm Eterna Award was Korean film "Turn It Up to 11", by Baek Seung-hwa.
PiFan's Network of Asian Fantastic Films held its third It Project this year, a project pitch market that facilitates meetings between producers and financiers. It Project also hands out a Puchon Award worth US $8,000 to the best project. This year Taiwan director John Hsu received prize for his It Project Shuffle about a superhero who wakes up with a random power every morning. Korean projects "The Arsonists" by HA Jun-won and "Burn the News!" by KIM Byung-woo were runners up receiving prizes worth $4,000.
Also awarded were post-production grants which went to Nakano Hiroyuki for Numeric Love, Yue Weng Pok for Tattoo War and Ham Tran for Breaking Point.
Nigel D'Sa (KOFIC)
Korean film, "The Neighbor Zombie", was also honoured in this section. The ultra low-budget omnibus horror, won both the Jury's Choice award and the Prugio Citizen's Choice prize. Among the Korean shorts screening at PiFan, "Dust Kid" by JUNG Yu-mi won the Best Korean Short Film prize. The Puchon Shorts international jury handed the Best Short Film award to US director Richard Gale's The Horribly Slow Murder with the Extremely Inefficient Weapon while also handing a Special Mention award to "Dust Kid".
Winner of the European Fantastic Film Festival Federation Asian Award was Thai film Chocolate by Prachya Pinkaew. 2 new awards were added to PiFan this year. The winner of PiFan's first NETPAC award was 8000 Miles by IRIE Yu of Japan. The winner of the inaugural Fujifilm Eterna Award was Korean film "Turn It Up to 11", by Baek Seung-hwa.
PiFan's Network of Asian Fantastic Films held its third It Project this year, a project pitch market that facilitates meetings between producers and financiers. It Project also hands out a Puchon Award worth US $8,000 to the best project. This year Taiwan director John Hsu received prize for his It Project Shuffle about a superhero who wakes up with a random power every morning. Korean projects "The Arsonists" by HA Jun-won and "Burn the News!" by KIM Byung-woo were runners up receiving prizes worth $4,000.
Also awarded were post-production grants which went to Nakano Hiroyuki for Numeric Love, Yue Weng Pok for Tattoo War and Ham Tran for Breaking Point.
Nigel D'Sa (KOFIC)
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