Awards

• Best of Puchon : Arahan (Director : RYOO Seung-wan)
• Best Director : Leonardo DI CESARE / Good Life Delivery
• Best Actress: Nat WATTANAPAT / My Suicide
• Best Actor : Benit DELEPINE & Gustave KERVERN / Aaltra
• Prugio Citizen's Choice : Arahan (Director : RYOO Seung-wan)
• Jury's Choice : The Taste of Tea (Director : Katsuhito ISHII)

• Grand Prize for Short Film : Goodbye, Cruel World (Director : Vito ROCCO)
• Jury's Choice for Short Film : My Parents (Director : Neele Leana VOLLMAR)
• Citizen's Choice for Short Film : My Parents (Director : Neele Leana VOLLMAR)

• EFFFF Asian Award : Virumaandi (Director : Kamal HAASAN)
• Special Mention : Ghost in the Shell 2 : Innocence (Director : Mamoru OSHII)

Puchon Choice Jury (Feature)

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  Stuart GORDON

  Stuart GORDON is a renowned filmmaker. He won the critic’s award at the Cannes International Film Festival(1985) with his first feature length film Re-Animator. Since then he has solidified his status as a great horror film director with the film From Beyond (1986), and has gone on to direct such films as Dolls (1987), Robotjox (1990), Fortress (1993), and Space Truckers (1998). The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit, which opened at the Sundance Film Festival in 1999 brought him the Rome Fantafestival Best Director Award. Also, He directed the King of the Ants which was the opening film in PiFan2004.

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  Thom PALMEN

  Thom PALMEN is the founder and festival director of Sweden’s UMEA International Film Festival. He is also the President of the European Coordination of Film Festivals, and has worked as a jury for numerous international member film festivals.

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  Jörg BUTTGEREIT

  Jörg BUTTGEREIT was born in 1963 in Berlin. Since the age of 14, he directed short films using Super 8mm, and made a controversial debut in 1987 with Nekromantik, a film about a love between a corpse and human. He then went on to make such films as Nekromantik II (1991), and Schramm (1993), pleasing hardcore audiences all over the world with his regular theme of necrophilia and death. BUTTGEREIT is a DJ, and is also the first person who wrote a book about Japanese monster films in Germany.

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  Tokitoshi SHIOTA

  Tokitoshi SHIOTA was born in Sapporo in 1956. He writes reviews on film for various film magazines and works as a programmer for Tokyo Fantastic Film Festival and Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival. A very good friend of director Takashi MIIKE, Shiota has appeared in a number of the director’s films. He was the first man to commit suicide in Happiness of the Katakuris and the mystery man with a cow mask on in Gozu.

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  SHIN Bo-kyung

  SHIN Bo-kyung was born in 1970. She graduated from Hong-Ik University majoring in visual design. During college she entered the film world as a crew member for the film Blue in You. She began working as an art director in 1993 with the film Out of the World. She belongs to the first generation of art directors who paved the way for her successors. She has worked in the field for over ten years and now is considered one of the best art director in Korea. She was in charge of the production design in The Contact, and Art Museum by the Zoo, Over the Rainbow. Her most recent work was Taegukgi.

Puchon Choice Jury (Shorts)

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  JANG Jun-hwan

  JANG Jun-hwan graduated from the Korean Film Academy. His short film 2001 Imagine won acclaims at Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival, San Francisco Film Festival, and at the Vancouver Film Festival. He worked as a cameraman for director RYOO Seung-wan’s short film Transmutated Head and as the lighting crew for director BONG Jun-ho’s short film Incoherence. He has also worked as a crew member on Motel Cactus, script writer for the film Phantom, the Submarine, and made his debut with the film Save the Green Planet! with his own script.

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  KIM Young

  KIM Young is a graduate of the Korean Film Academy and has worked in the female film group ‘Bariter.’ She worked in the film crew for La Vie en Rose and Peppermint Candy. She also worked as a project producer for the films A Tale of Two Sisters and Twent identity.

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  LIM Eun-kyung

  LIM Eun-kyung was born in 1983. She gained attention for her work in a model for the TTL company commercial, and made her debut as an actress in JANG Sun-woo’s Resurrection of the Little Match Girl (2002). Since then she did the leading roles in CHO Keun-sik’s Conduct Zero (2002) and JEONG Yong-ki ’s Doll Master (2004), which is screening at PiFan2004.

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  JUNG Hoon-i

  Cartoonist JUNG Hoon-i was born in 1972. He made his debut in 1995 when he won the Remoconist award at the ‘New Cartoonists Awards’ sponsored by Yong Champ. In 1997, he participated in Seoul International Cartoon Festival’s ‘Important Young Cartoonists of Our Times’ exhibit. His major works include Cartoon vs. Film(1995~, Cine 21), Video King(1996~), Mr. Musso(1996~1997), Village People(1996~1998).

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  KIM Hong-jip

  Music director KIM Hong-jip was born in 1969. After graduating from Korea University majoring in Journalism and Broadcasting, he made theme songs for the KBS drama Female Secretary, and MBC dramas When the Iris Blooms, Stars Rise Even Beaten and Respect to the Love. He made his film debut with the film Happy Funeral Parlor (1999) and worked in such films as Wanee & Junah (2001), A Good Lawyer’s Wife (2003), and The Last Wolf (2004).

EFFFF

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  Jan DOENSE

  Jan Doense was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands. After studying international law at Amsterdam University, Jan Doense studied at Netherlands Film and TV Academy, and New York Film Academy. His short horror film R.I.P was screened at PiFan2002. He, with his colleagues, created the program The Night of the Bad Taste, and is currently working as the executive director for the Amsterdam Fantasy Film Festival.

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  Olivier MÜLLER

  Olivier Müller has studied film aesthetics, film history, and economics at University of Lausanne in Swiss. He began his work with underground film club, and now works as the executive director for Neuchâtel International Fantasy Film Festival. He firmly believes that since film is an art of manipulating reality, fantasy and science fiction films are the best tool for nourishing the art form. He has, since 2004, been the chairman of the EFFFF.