Film Industry to Boycott Busan Film Festival1 min read
Reading Time: < 1 minuteYesterday, South Korea’s film industry people decided to boycott this year’s Busan International Film Festival (BIFF), as the sponsoring city keeps “denying” the festival’s autonomy. A task force composed of nine industry associations, including the Korean Film Producers’ Association, Directors’ Guild of Korea and the Federation of Korea Movie Workers’ Union, said they had polled their members for a week from April 1 and more than 90 percent of the respondents voted in favour of the boycott.
It marks the first time in 10 years that the local film industry openly voiced its anger over the BIFF, according to the task force. In 2006, industry members took to the streets to protest the government’s plan to scale down the quota for screening domestic films.The envisioned collective action added greater uncertainty to the future of Asia’s largest film festival, which celebrated its 20th anniversary last year. This year’s film festival is slated for Oct. 6-15.
via: Asian Movie Pulse
Image Credit: Korean Film Group’s Emergency Committee
