{"id":5545,"date":"2020-09-20T17:59:19","date_gmt":"2020-09-20T10:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hkfilm.com.vn\/?p=5545"},"modified":"2020-09-22T13:45:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T06:45:00","slug":"rom-busan-festivals-new-currents-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hkfilm.com.vn\/en\/rom-busan-festivals-new-currents-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Rom\u2019 and \u2018Haifa Street\u2019 Split Busan Festival\u2019s New Currents Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Vietnamese coming-of-age drama \u201cRom\u201d and Iraq-Qatar co-production \u201cHaifa Street\u201d shared the top award in the New Currents competition section of the Busan International Film Festival.<\/p>\n

The prizes were announced Saturday morning in Busan, South Korea.<\/p>\n

Headed by British director Mike Figgis, the New Currents jury said that \u201cthe use of real, live locations\u201d in \u201cRom\u201d \u201cimpressed the jury greatly and that the ending was very satisfying.\u201d The jury praised \u201cHaifa Street,\u201d as \u201ca mature, grown up movie\u201d made by a director that \u201cexhibited a confidence and understanding of cinema language which set the film apart.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Kim Ji-seok Award, named after the festival\u2019s co-founder and executive programmer who died in 2017, was jointly presented to Sarmad Sultan Khoosat\u2019s \u201cCircus of Life\u201d (Pakistan) and to Pradip Kurbah\u2019s \u201cMarket\u201d (India). Headed by Iranian filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf, the jury included Malaysian director-actress Tan Chui Mui and Korean film critic Huh Moon-young.<\/p>\n

Korean director Jung Jae-eun, Japanese director Hamaguchi Ryusuke and Dogwoof Founder Andy Whittaker presented the BIFF Mecenat Awards to Kim Jeong-keun\u2019s \u201cUnderground\u201d (Korea) and Hou Ning\u2019s \u201cNoodle Kid\u201d (China).<\/p>\n

The actor and actress of the year awards, given to on screen talent in the Korean Cinema Today\u2014Vision section title, went to Kim Jun-hyung and Mun Hye-in in \u201cThe Education.\u201d<\/p>\n

Organizers said that they had screened 299 films, of which 118 were world premieres, from 85 territories. Audience numbers over the 10-day period totaled 189,000.<\/p>\n

They reported that the changes brought to the Asian Film Market were successful. The Asian Film Market saw a 22% year on year increase in individuals participating, reaching 2,188. The number of companies participated in the market reached 200, which was a 17% increase from the previous year. Its project market hosted a record 743 one-on-on meetings between producers pitching projects and potential distributors, financiers and sales agents.<\/p>\n

By Sonia Kil<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Original post: https:\/\/variety.com\/2019\/film\/asia\/rom-and-haifa-street-split-busan-festival-new-currents-prize-1203367167\/<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Vietnamese coming-of-age drama \u201cRom\u201d and Iraq-Qatar co-production \u201cHaifa Street\u201d shared the top award in the New Currents competition section of the Busan International Film Festival. The prizes were announced Saturday morning in Busan, South Korea. Headed by British director Mike Figgis, the New Currents jury said that \u201cthe use of real, live locations\u201d in \u201cRom\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5547,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hkfilm.com.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5545"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hkfilm.com.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hkfilm.com.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hkfilm.com.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hkfilm.com.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5545"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/hkfilm.com.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5551,"href":"https:\/\/hkfilm.com.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5545\/revisions\/5551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hkfilm.com.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hkfilm.com.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hkfilm.com.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hkfilm.com.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}