PIFF Founder and Director Receives UNESCO Award
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Pusan International Film Festival founder and director Kim Dong-ho has just received the UNESCO Fellini Medal awarded to notable figures that have made a significant impact on international cinema. Kim Dong-ho, well known at home and around the world, has received other similar cultural awards such as the Deauville City Medal, an award from the French government and others nationally and internationally. In addition, he has served on international film festival juries including Venice, Las Palmes, India and Buenos Aires. Back home he has served as the vice minister in the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, was the president of the Seoul Arts Center and the Korean Film Council(formerly Korean Motion Picture Promotion Corporation) and even published his own book Korean Cinema Policy (2005)
Significantly, he is known around Asia not just through the success of Pusan but for the Network for Promotion of Asian Cinema (NETPAC). In addition, the Pusan Promotion Plan (PPP) has also become a driving force bringing new directors and their films to the international stage. As such, the Director General of UNESCO Koïchiro Matsuura recognized the festival for it's, "contribution, in the Republic of Korea, Asia and beyond, to the safeguarding of cultural diversity through cinema, notably for the younger generation, and to the promotion of Asian film in the world".
The Pusan International Festival of which Kim Dong-ho formed in 1996 has become the most significant international film festival in Asia. The festival focuses on new directors especially those from the Asia region.
David Oxenbridge (KOFIC)
Significantly, he is known around Asia not just through the success of Pusan but for the Network for Promotion of Asian Cinema (NETPAC). In addition, the Pusan Promotion Plan (PPP) has also become a driving force bringing new directors and their films to the international stage. As such, the Director General of UNESCO Koïchiro Matsuura recognized the festival for it's, "contribution, in the Republic of Korea, Asia and beyond, to the safeguarding of cultural diversity through cinema, notably for the younger generation, and to the promotion of Asian film in the world".
The Pusan International Festival of which Kim Dong-ho formed in 1996 has become the most significant international film festival in Asia. The festival focuses on new directors especially those from the Asia region.
David Oxenbridge (KOFIC)
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