Busan unveils 30-title project selection

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Production News

New film works by Aditya ASSARAT อาทิตย์ อัสสรัตน์ (pictured), HUR Jin-ho 허진호, Carol LAI 黎妙雪 and LIN Cheng-sheng 林正盛 are among the projects selected by the Asian Project Market, the Busan International Film Festival 부산국제영화제's renamed Pusan Promotion Plan (10-13 Oct 2011).

The event secured 30 projects from across the region including six from South Korea and a further four from Japan. Among the surprise entries are solo feature film debuts by leading Korean film producer KIMJHO Gwang-soo 김조광수 and Wayne CHANG 張心望, general manager of Taiwan distributor Catchplay Inc 威望國際股份有限公司.

Selectors say that rather than concentrating exclusively on art-house titles, they have included a number of genre titles including Indonesian horror project Killers, RYOO Seung-wan 류승완 | 柳昇完's spy thriller In Berlin 베를린, Nonzee NIMIBUTR นนทรีย์ นิมิบุตร's psycho-thriller Distortion and PARK Chan-kyong 박찬경's When the Bell Rings Itself.

Several of the projects are co-produced with Japan, including Chang's The Legend of the T-Dog 命運狗不理, The Mo Brothers' Killers and Southeast Asian omnibus Southeast Loves. Hur's adaptation of Dangerous Liaisons 危險關係, already made in Korean by E J-yong 이재용 | 李在容 as Untold Scandal 스캔들 (2003), plans to shoot in China with Chinese stars.

Separately, Busan's parallel Asian Film Market announced a 30% increase in the number of participants and a 40% rise in the number of exhibitors by the close of the early-bird registration period on 31 July. There has been particularly strong interest from Japanese and American sales companies, whose numbers have doubled.

2011 ASIAN PROJECT MARKET SELECTION

• 27C — Loaf Rocks; dir: LIN Cheng-sheng
• Abigail Harm; dir: Lee Isaac CHUNG
• Alive; dir: PARK Jeong-beom 박정범
• In Berlin; dir: RYOO Seung-wan
• Chocolietta; dir: KAZAMA Shiori 風間志織
• Dangerous Liaisons; dir: HUR Jin-ho
• Distortion; dir: Nonzee NIMIBUTR
• The Dog Show; dir: Ralston JOVER
• Du, Zooey, and Ma; dir: Robin WENG 翁首鳴
• East Wind, Rain; dir: HARADA Masato 原田眞人
• The Glass Trinket; dir: Nariné MKRTCHYAN, Arsen AZATYAN
• The Hangman's Breakfast; dir: Glen GOEI 魏铭耀
• Killers; dir: Mo Brothers (Timo TJAHJANTO, Kimo STAMBOEL)
• Lake August; dir: YANG Heng 楊恒
• Last Confession; dir: LEE Mu-young 이무영
• Legend of the T-Dog; dir: Wayne CHANG
• Memories on Stone (working title); dir: Shawkat Amin KORKI
• My Ancestral Home; dir: Ritesh MENON
• My Man (working title); dir: KUMAKIRI Kazuyoshi 熊切和嘉
• Ocean of Love; dir: Carol LAI
• One More; dir: Shivajee Chandrabhushan DEOGAM
• Promise; dir: Peter KIM
• The Road (working title); dir: CHANG Tso-chi 張作驥
• Satra; dir: Sheron R. DAYOC
• Scarlet Poppy; dir: Peter BUSSIAN
• Silent Visitor (working title); dir: YANG Yong-hi 양영희 | 梁英姬
• The Slave Girl; dir: Julia KWAN
• Southeast Loves; dirs: Aditya ASSARAT, Vimukthi JAYASUNDARA, PHAN Dang Di, Ifa ISFANSYAH, Ishtiaque ZICO
• The Tale of a Good Police; dir: Abu Shahed EMON
• When the Bell Rings Itself (working title); dir: PARK Chan-kyong

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