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* Movie: Visitors
* Revised romanization: Eoddeon Bangmun
* Hangul: 어떤 방문
* Director: Sang-soo Hong, Naomi Kawase, Lav Diaz
* Writer:
* Producer:
* Cinematographer:
* Release Date: November 12, 2009 (South Korea)
* Runtime: 110 min.
* Language: Japanese, Korean, Filipino
* Country: Japan, South Korea, Philippines
Jeonju Digital Project 2009
"Lost in the Mountains" is directed by Hong Sang-soo, "Koma" by Naomi Kawase and "Butterflies Have No Memories" by Lav Diaz
In the film "Koma", Kawase explores the relationship between fragile and often tense history between Korea and Japan through the relationship that develops between a third generation Korean-Japanese man, who unexpectedly visits the small and quiet village of Koma, and a Japanese woman, a somewhat mysterious inhabitant of the village.
Korean director Hong's "Lost in the Mountains" tells the story of a woman's love-hate relationship with the people closest to her, including a friend, a teacher with whom she had an affair and her ex-boyfriend. It starts when she makes an impromptu visit to see her friend, who lives in Jeonju.
"Butterflies Have No Memories", the film by the director Diaz, depicts the lives of the inhabitants of a remote island far from the Philippines who suffer economic difficulties after a gold mining company withdraws from the town. One day, a sudden visit by a Canadian woman born and raised on the island makes their already troubled lives even more complicated.
Visitors | News
'The three of us were working with the concept of the visitor without realizing it. I think it was fate'.
JEONJU - A bunch of mysterious guests have invaded the Jeonju Digital Project ("Visitors"), the centerpiece of the international film festival's award-winning program.
This year, three internationally-known Asian filmmakers - Korea's Hong Sang-soo, Japan's Naomi Kawase and the Philippines' Lav Diaz - have contributed a trio of films whose main plot revolves around the arrival of an unexpected visitor that gets the action going.
"For the past ten years, the Jeonju Digital Project has become like a kind of trademark and is recognized by various film festivals around the world", JIFF Director Min Byung-lock said after a press preview on Saturday.
The Jeonju Digital Project won the Jury Award at the Locarno International Film Festival in 2007, the first time in the history of the film festival that a project of this kind had won the prize.
Every year, three directors from around the world are invited to contribute a 30-minute short and awarded 50 million won ($38,760) to get the job done. Their work is then premiered at the festival.
"We have invited three well-known directors who are already recognized internationally to participate in the project, so we are expecting the project to win awards at international film festivals again this year", he added.
"Visitors", the title of this year's project, features films: "Lost in the Mountains" by Hong, "Koma" by Kawase and "Butterflies Have No Memories" by Diaz.
"After I finished the film, I was surprised to realize that the three of us were working with the concept of the visitor, without realizing it in advance. I think it was fate", Kawase said.
As the Japanese director noted, the dramatic tension in all three films is built around the sudden arrival of an unexpected visitor.
In the film "Koma", Kawase explores the relationship between fragile and often tense history between Korea and Japan through the relationship that develops between a third generation Korean-Japanese man, who unexpectedly visits the small and quiet village of Koma, and a Japanese woman, a somewhat mysterious inhabitant of the village.
Korean director Hong's "Lost in the Mountains" tells the story of a woman's love-hate relationship with the people closest to her, including a friend, a teacher with whom she had an affair and her ex-boyfriend. It starts when she makes an impromptu visit to see her friend, who lives in Jeonju.
"Butterflies Have No Memories", the film by the director Diaz, depicts the lives of the inhabitants of a remote island far from the Philippines who suffer economic difficulties after a gold mining company withdraws from the town. One day, a sudden visit by a Canadian woman born and raised on the island makes their already troubled lives even more complicated.
"The film is about the prosperity development brings and the environmental destruction it causes", Diaz said.
"The idea to film in black and white was my sort of strategic decision to bring into relief the dark side of the Philippines' history, hidden behind its beautiful natural scenes", he added.
Don't worry if you missed the chance to see this award-winning film over the weekend.
It will be screened one last time at 2 p.m. on Wednesday at CGV, a theater affiliated with the festival.
Those who haven't been to the festival in a while needed feel left out either.
A special DVD set featuring all 27 films produced as part of the project over the last nine years is being released in celebration of the festival's 10th anniversary under the title Jeonju Digital Project 2000-2008.
By Park Sun-young
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There are so many film festivals in Korea that it's difficult to stand out. But the Jeonju International Film Festival has weathered the competition in the past decade, thanks to its unwavering focus on promising filmmakers and their digital projects.
In 2000, the festival introduced its first Digital Project as a core event, focusing on the future of digital movies. Since then, 27 filmmakers from around the world have joined the project, producing digital short films. What's notable is the organizers' attempt to broaden horizons, featuring European and African filmmakers in 2007 and 2008.
This year, however, the Jeonju Digital Project ("Visitors") has returned to Asian filmmakers to celebrate its 10th anniversary.
"When we first launched the project in 2000, we set a new standard by helping promising filmmakers across the world to make digital films. This year, we are featuring three Asian filmmakers ahead of the anniversary", said Min Byung-lock, chief festival organizer, at a news conference in downtown Seoul on Tuesday.
The featured filmmakers are Hong Sang-soo from Korea, Naomi Kawase from Japan and Lav Diaz from the Philippines.
Hong, who directed "Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors", the opening film for the first Jeonju film festival, said that it will be his first digital short film project. His reputation as a filmmaker is likely to raise expectations about his new project "Lost in the Mountains".
The 30-minute film follows Mi-sook, who visits Jeonju to discover her close friend and ex-flame share a shocking secret.
Naomi Kawase, another participant of the project, acquired fame as the youngest winner of the Golden Camera Award at the Cannes International Film Festival for her first feature film, "Suzaku", in 1997. She then cemented her position as a leading filmmaker by winning the Grand Prix at Cannes for her film "The Mourning Forest of Mogari" in 2007.
For the Jeonju project, she will introduce "Koma", a tale with a heavy Korean influence. "There was a town named Koma in Japan, and I felt the place bears some features reminiscent of Korea's Goryeo period, and that's why I set out to work on this film", she said.
Lav Diaz, who won the Orizzonti Grand Prize at the Venice International Film Festival with his film "Melancholia" in 2008, joins the project with "Butterflies Have No Memories".
"This is a film set in an island in the Philippines where its environment is destroyed, and I want to show that the environment, once damaged, tends to be a serious problem for many people for a long period of time", Diaz said.
The 10th Jeonju International Film Festival will be held from April 30 through May 8. For more information, visit Open the link
By Yang Sung-jin
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