Jeonju International Film Festival

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The poster for the first Jeonju International Film Festival in 2000. Note the alternate spelling of Jeonju. Subsequent years have used the more common spelling of the city's name.
The poster for the first Jeonju International Film Festival in 2000. Note the alternate spelling of Jeonju. Subsequent years have used the more common spelling of the city's name.

The Jeonju International Film Festival (JIFF, Korean: 전주국제영화제, Hanja: 全州國際映畵祭) has been held annually since 2000 in Jeonju, South Korea, focusing on digital, independent and art films.

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[edit] History

[edit] 2000

[edit] 2001

[edit] 2002

[edit] 2003

[edit] 2004

[edit] 2005

  • April 28-May 6: 170 films from 30 countries
    • Opening Film: Digital Short Films by Three Filmmakers 2005, Shinya Tsukamoto, Song Il-gon, Apichatpong Weerasethakul
    • Closing Film: Antarctic Journal, Yim Phil-sung, Korea
    • Woosuk Award (Indie Vision):
      • Harvest Time, Marina Razbezhkina, Russia
      • Special Mention: I, Caludia, Chris Abraham, Canada
    • JJ-Star Award (Digital Spectrum):
      • Czech Dream, Vít Klusák, Filip Remunda, Czech Republic
      • Oxhide, Liu Jia Yin, China
    • JIFF Favorites Award (Cinemascape/Cinema Palace): The Butterfly, Philippe Muyl, France
    • Audience Critics' Award:
      • The Gate of Truth, Kim Hee-chul, Korea
      • Special Mention: Five is Too Many, Ahn Seul-ki, Korea

[edit] 2006

  • April 27-May 5
    • Opening Film: Offside, Jafar Panahi, Iran.
    • Closing Film: Don't Look Back, Kim Young-nam, South Korea
    • Woosuk Award (Indie Vision):
      • Drifting States, Denis Cote, Canada
      • Special Comment: Smiling in a War Zone - The Art of Flying to Kabul, Magnus Bejmar and Simone Aaberg Kaern, Denmark
    • JJ-Star Award (Digital Spectrum):
      • Stories from the North, Uruphong Raksasad, Thailand
      • Special Comment:
        • The White She-Camel, Xavier Christiaens, Belgium
        • 11,000km from New York, Orzu Sharipov, Tajikistan
    • JIFF Favorites Award (Cinemascape/Cinema Palace):
    • Audience Critics Award (Korean Cinema on the Move):
      • Shocking Family, Kyung soon, South Korea
    • CGV Korean Independent Feature Film Distribution Support Award:
      • Between, Lee Chang-jae, South Korea

[edit] 2007

[edit] 2008

  • May 1-May 9: 195 films from approximately 40 countries
  • Opening film: THE KISS, Manda Kunitoshi
  • Closing film: If You Were Me 4, Bang Eun-jin, Jeon Gye-soo

[edit] Digital Short Films by Three Filmmakers

Each year, the Jeonju International Film Festival commissions three filmmakers to produce digital short films to be shown at the festival. Each filmmaker gets $50,000 to make their film. In past years, the Digital Short Films have included:

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