The Busan Worldwide Movie Pageant (BIFF) has confirmed Jung Hanseok will probably be its new competition director.
His appointment was finalized after a common assembly held immediately on the Busan Cinema Middle in Soeul, Korea following a two-stage open recruitment course of.
BIFF had signalled its intentions to appoint Jung fest director earlier this month, naming him its most well-liked candidate. He’ll start his position tomorrow and locks in a four-year time period.
“Jung Hanseok is a extremely certified candidate with a deep understanding of the competition’s inner and exterior panorama,” mentioned the Govt Advice Committee in a press release. “BIFF He possesses the capabilities essential to take the competition to the following degree.”
His appointment follows BIFF skilled a tumultuous few years for BIFF, throughout which four managers resigned adopted by a deeply unpopular determination by then-BIFF chairman Lee Yong-kwan to nominate a detailed affiliate, Cho Jongkook, as Managing Director alongside Creative Director Huh Moonyung.
Jung started life within the movie trade in 2002 a journalist and movie critic for Cine21. He has served because the Korean Cinema Programmer at BIFF since 2019, and is taken into account to play a key position in discovering and supporting rising Korean filmmakers. Identified domestically and internationally, he has served as a jury member for the Buil Movie Awards, Jeonju Worldwide Movie Pageant and Seoul Impartial Movie Pageant, in addition to an advisor for the Florence Korea Movie Fest and the Asian Movie Awards in Hong Kong.
