‘Cannes of Asia’ opens its 28th year

Filmmakers, film programmers, and film executives have started arriving in South Korea since Oct. 4 to attend the “Cannes of Asia” at the 28th Busan International Film Festival and to participate in the Asian Contents & Film Market .The BIFF, founded in 1996, has been generating cultural milestones, for discovering and nurturing new talents who have gone on to become important voices in Asian cinema.at the ICONS section.

It is a co-production market, hosting industry conferences and events, and film production funding programs including the Film Philippines Office , whose primary aim is to promote the Philippines as a destination for film productions. In Platform Busan, 10 young filmmakers were sponsored by the Film Development Council of the Philippines to be their scholars to attend the annual event organized by BIFF and ACFM. It welcomes new and emerging Asian independent filmmakers to Busan providing an opportunity of global networking by engaging in master classes and seminars.

Our local filmmakers Ma. Cristina Velasco, Ryan Machado, Margarette Heba Garcia, Christina Marie Catalan, Arjanmar Rebeta, Angelique Mira Ticlao, Mica Oliveros, Christian Joshua Lomahan, Jan-Kyle Nieva, and Lexian Losley Avestruz are some of the country’s representatives to Platform Busan. We hope that the screenings and markets of Filipino content would create an impact, bringing our talents to worldwide acclaim.

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