B.I.G NAFF Announces the NAFF 2019 Official Selections
Thank you for your interest and support for the Network of Asian Fantastic Films (NAFF) IT Project of BIFAN Industry Gathering (B.I.G), 23rd Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (BIFAN).
This year's B.I.G NAFF It project received 258 genre projects from 49 countries. Based on outstanding originality and high completeness, we have officially selected 30 of 21 countries.
The selected projects participate in B.I.G NAFF, which runs from June 30th to July 4th, and hold a one-on-one business meeting with movie producers and investors from all over the world. NAFF will help project participants have meaningful meetings that contribute to project completion.
I would like to express my sincere appreciation to all the directors and producers who had submitted their precious projects.
B.I.G NAFF 2019 It Project Preliminaries Review
Since the 12th NAFF in 2019 received the largest submissions ever featuring 258 projects from 49 countries, the films were reviewed with tension and expectations. Last year, there were 103 submissions from Korea, accounting for about half of the total submissions. But this year, there were a lot more foreign projects, a total of 178 submissions.
In addition, there were many Korean films that aimed for co-production, reminding the jury members that NAFF has become the track of the global project market. In Asia, higher quality projects were submitted than before, and there were also films from Europe, North America, South America, and the Middle East that had been hard to access. It was an incredibly difficult task for the jury members to select only 30 projects, but we did our best in the selection applying fair standards.
By submitting projects to NAFF from places where filmmaking is not active and do not have much awareness of genre films, we have found that filmmakers all over the world are showing great interest in the Asian genre film market and appreciate its growth potential. To prove this, every year each region continues to submit new work, ranging from new directors and producers to senior directors and producers.
We hope that all the selected projects will meet good relationships and opportunities through NAFF and meet again at BIFAN with their finished work in a few years.
We would like to say thank you to the filmmakers who prepared the submitted projects, and congratulations to those who have been selected. Thank you.
Younghong "Brian" CHUNG (International Business Consultant for Film & TV),
Samuel Yeunju HA (CEO, Bound Entertainment),
Daehee Danny PARK (Producer, CEO, Iron Package),
SHIN Wonsun (Consultant, Hanmac Culture Group) (in alphabetical order)
It Project 2019 Official Selections
NO |
Project |
Country |
Director |
Producer |
1 |
31¡É |
Japan |
NINOMIYA Ken |
YASUSHI Utagawa |
2 |
Nine Steps |
Spain |
Marisa Crespo ABRIL Moises Romera PEREZ |
Marisa Crespo ABRIL |
3 |
The Beast from the Trees |
Singapore, Indonesia |
Rifyal GIFFARI |
Angelina Marilyn BOK |
4 |
Dogcow |
Vietnam |
PHAN Linh |
Jenni TRANG-LE |
5 |
Fingernail |
Israel |
Boaz ARMONI |
Yoav ROEH |
6 |
HANA |
Singapore, Korea, Japan |
NAKANISHI Mai |
Eric KHOO, HUANG Junxiang, LEE Junsang |
7 |
Hanging Island |
China, Korea |
SUN Yixi |
DENG Cilin |
8 |
ILLICIT |
Korea, United States |
KANG Minji |
Luke SPEARS |
9 |
Lay the Ghost |
Korea |
YU Eunjeong |
KIM Shinjae |
10 |
Legends of the Raining Night éëå¨ÎÖ谈 |
China |
MIAO J |
YOUNG Zorro |
11 |
The Breakup Virus |
The Philippines |
Fatrick TABADA |
Bianca BALBUENA |
12 |
RECURSE |
Germany, Austria |
Lucas VOSSOUGHI, Artur GOLCZEWSKI |
Arno KRIMMER, Josef BRANDMAIER |
13 |
Sarah |
India |
Niketh ReDDY |
Mathivanan RAJENDRAN |
14 |
The Shadows íÑç¯ÍöÊà |
Singapore, Hong Kong |
Glenn CHAN |
Carol THAM |
15 |
Tiger Stripes |
Malaysia |
Amanda EU |
Fei Ling FOO |
16 |
The Time that Remains |
The Philippines |
Adolfo ALIX Jr. |
Didier COSTET |
17 |
A Transfer Student |
Korea |
NO Zinsoo |
Nozinsoo Film |
18 |
Winter Peony and Mermaid |
Japan |
TANIMOTO Kaori |
FUKUSHIMA Kazutaka |
19 |
Wong Tai Sin Assassination |
Hong Kong |
WONG Hoi |
Derek KWOK Tsz Kin |
Project Spotlight Taiwan 2019 Official Selections
NO |
Project |
Country |
Director |
Producer |
1 |
INCANTATION 咒 |
Taiwan |
Kevin KO |
Patrick Mao HUANG, Ivy SHEN |
2 |
Leaving Virginity
÷ò处 |
Taiwan |
LIN Li Shu |
WU Dennis |
3 |
Life for Sale 售Ù¤ |
Taiwan |
Tom TENG |
LIN Tien Kuei |
4 |
The Lone Red ûõàø͵Õé |
Taiwan |
YC Tom LEE |
CHANG Chin |
5 |
The Medium: The Flaming Exorcist Sinner
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Taiwan |
David CHANG |
Jade LEE, Webber CHENG, Philo WU |
Nordic Genre Invasion 2019 Official Selections
NO |
Project |
Country |
Director |
Producer |
1 |
Conductor |
Finland, USA |
Alex NOYER |
Hannu AUKIA, Alex NOYER |
2 |
Ever Girls |
Sweden |
Andre HEDETOFT |
Nima YOUSEFI |
3 |
Longevity |
Denmark |
Rasmus KLOSTER BRO |
Amalie LYNGBO QUIST |
4 |
Snort and Splash |
Finland |
Teemu NIKKI |
Jani PÖSÖ |
Blood Window 2019 Official Selection
NO |
Project |
Country |
Director |
Producer |
1 |
Vurdalak Blood |
Argentina |
Santiago Fernandez CALVETE |
Roxana RAMOS |
Sitges Pitchbox 2019 Official Selection
NO |
Project |
Country |
Director |
Producer |
1 |
The Occupant |
Netherlands |
Hugo KEIJZER |
Maurice SCHUTTE |