Screen Daily has a report on developments regarding the independence of
the Busan International Film Festival. You can find it here. For a key piece of background to this
matter you should read Tony Rayns open letter to the people of Busan.
Here are the key paras from the Screen Daily Report:
The Film
industry Committee of nine major film organisations has issued a set of demands
to ensure the festival’s independence.
Key members
of South Korea’s film community have announced today that they will boycott the
Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) if Busan City does not stop
interfering with the festival.
Today (March
21), the Korean Film Group’s Emergency Committee for Defending BIFF’s
Independence, a gathering of nine major film organisations including the Korean
Film Producers’ Association, the Directors’ Guild of Korea and the Federation
of Korea Movie Workers’ Union, held a press conference in Seoul to make the following
demands to ensure the festival’s autonomy and independence:
- Busan City mayor Suh
Byung-soo should step down as BIFF organizing committee chairman and agree
to revise the festival’s articles of association.
- The city government must
stop unjust interference in BIFF and withdraw the legal application for
injunction against the 68 new committee advisors.
- Suh should make a public
apology for his actions and promise it will never happen again.
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