Awards

• Best of Bucheon: You Won’t Be Alone (Directed by Goran STOLEVSKI)
• Best Director Choice: Speak No Evil (Directed by Christian TAFDRUP)
  ¡Ø Jury’s Special Mention: Huesera (Directed by Michelle GARZA CERVERA)
• Jury’s Choice: Vesper (Directed by Kristina BUOZYTE, Bruno SAMPER)
• Audience Award: Sissy (Directed by Hannah BARLOW, Kane SENES)

• Best Short Film: Lucienne in a World Without Solitude (Directed by Geordy COUTURIAU)
• Jury’s Choice for Short Film: Moshari (Directed by Nuhash HUMAYUN)
• Audience Award for Short Film: Brutalia, Days of Labour (Directed by Manolis MAVRIS)

• Korean Fantastic Film: Body Parts (Directed by CHOE Wonkyung, JEON Byeongdeok, LEE Gwangjin, G’sam, KIM Jangmi, Wally SEO)
• Korean Fantastic Best Director: The Fifth Thoracic Vertebra (Directed by PARK Syeyoung)
• Fantastic Actors (2 winners): SEO Hyunwoo Thunderbird, JUNG Ryeowon The Woman in the White Car
  ¡Ø Jury’s Special Mention: OH Dongmin Next Door
• Korean Fantastic Audience Award: The Fifth Thoracic Vertebra (Directed by PARK Syeyoung)
• Nonghyup Award: The Fifth Thoracic Vertebra (Directed by PARK Syeyoung)
• Watcha’s Pick (2 winners): Thunderbird (Directed by LEE Jaewon), The Woman in the White Car (Directed by Christine KO)

• Best Korean Short Film: Persona (Directed by MOON Sujin)
• Audience Award for Korean Short Film: The Stranger (Directed by SONG Wonchan)
• Watcha’s Pick (5 winners): Bardo (Directed by Jung Jihyun), Down the Mountain (Directed by KIM Joon), James English Academy (Directed by KIM Kwonhoan), Red Mask KF94 (Directed by KIM Minha), The Stranger (Directed by SONG Wonchan)

• The Midnight Maiden War (Directed by NINOMIYA Ken)

• Office Royale (Directed by SEKI Kazuaki)

• Pororo Movie_Dragon Castle Adventure (Directed by KANG Seunghun, YUN Jeawan)

Bucheon Choice Jury (Feature)

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  Monica GARCIA

  General Manager of the Foundation Sitges - International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia. She combines this activity with university teaching, being co-director of the UOC's Fantastic Film Master, and writing. In relation to the cinema, she has extensive experience since in 2004 she was responsible for communication at the Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival for the first time. Since then, she worked in international promotion of audiovisual produced in the country and in the evaluation of national competitions. At Sitges, she is also in charge of the entire industry area and the development of projects with international links such as Woman In Fan, program for the visibility and incorporation of creative women into the fantastic filmography, and Sitges Cocoon, that explores the convergences between technology and audiovisual production.

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  HARADA Masato

  Born in 1949 in Numazu, Shizuoka. After he interviewed Akira Kurozawa and Howard Hawks in his twenties, he venerates them as his lifelong mentor. In 1979, he made his debut with Goodbye, Flickmania, depicting his film buff days with two protagonists. His first international award was for Kamikaze Taxi (1995), which won the semi-grand prix and Best Director at the Valenciennes International Festival of Action and Adventure Films in France. His works range from the socialism drama Jubaku: The Archipelago of Rotten Money (a.k.a. Spellbound, 1999), which paid homage to director Akira Kurosawa, to Chronicles of My Mother (2012), a family drama deeply influenced by Oz and Bergman. He made his Hollywood debut as an actor in The Last Samurai (2003). His works always observe the world. He has received Lifetime Achievement Awards at the Guanajuato International Film Festival, the Hawaii International Film Festival, and the New York Asian Film Festival.

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  Nick JAMES

  After graduating from St Martin's College of Art London, Nick has contributed to famous media outlets such as The Guardian, The Observer, The Independent, The Times, and US Vogue writing about film, literature, and art. From 1997 to 2019, he was also editor-in-chief of the renown monthly British monthly film magazine Sight & Sound. During that time, he has interviewed world-class filmmakers such as Quentin Tarantino, David Cronenberg, Oliver Stone, Guillermo del Toro, and Alfonso Cuarón. He also wrote as part of the BFI Modern Classic series that was made into a movie with the same title by Michael Mann. In 2011, he was awarded the "Order of the Arts and the Letters" by the French government. He has served as a jury member at various international film festivals such as the Berlin International Film Festival.

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  KANG Hyejung

  KANG Hyejung has been the CEO and founder of Filmmakers R&K since 2005. Starting with her inaugural film, The City Of Violence (2006), she produced many well-received films, including Dachimawa Lee (2008), Troubleshooter (2010), The Unjust(Co-production, 2010), The Berlin File (2012), Veteran (2015), The Battleship Island (2017), Svaha: The Sixth Finger (2019), Exit (2019), Start-up (2019), Escape from Mogadishu (2021), Hostage: Missing Celebrity (2021) and others. Currently, she is filming 2 O'Clock Date, and will film more than two projects this year.

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  SIM Hyejin

  SIM Hyejin made her debut as a model for a Coca-Cola commercial in 1986 and built her career as a popular CF model before entering the path of a movie star. She won the Best Actress Award at the Three Continents Festival for Black Republic (1990) and became a box-office actress with The Marriage Life (1992), which ranked first in the audience count of the year. In 1996, she made a historical record of winning three different awards in the same year, the Baeksang Arts Awards, Blue Dragon Film Awards, and Grand Bell Award for Best Actress for three different films, Go Alone Like A Rhino's Horn (1995), The adventure of Mrs. Park (1996), and The Gingko Bed (1996). For her role in Green Fish (1997), she won the Baeksang Arts Awards and Grand Bell Award for Best Actress two years in a row. She has been continuing her steady career with films and TV shows.

Korean Fantastic Jury (Feature)

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  Lisa DREYER

  She is the Festival Director for Fantastic Fest, the largest genre festival in the U.S., powered by the Alamo Drafthouse. She has programmed for a variety of festivals, including the Oak Cliff Film Festival and Contrast Film Festival, and previously worked for the Austin Film Society. She is passionate about supporting radical new voices and boundary-pushing projects, and loves bringing the best genre films from around the world to Austin, Texas.

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  LEE Donku

  Majored acting in college and played as an actor in Daehakro after graduation. After working as an actor and director in a number of short films, he was invited to the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival 'Panorama' with his first feature film, FATAL (2012). Then he directed Entangled (2014) which was invited to the 19th Busan International Film Festival, and Fanfare (2019) which won the Best Director award at the 23rd Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival. Recently, in April 2022, the fourth feature film When Spring Comes (2021) was released.

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  YU Bora

  She is a Drama Writer and has a master’s degree from Dongguk University’s Graduate School of Digital Image and Contents. She has written many short dramas such as Sanggwoni (2012), The Summer of Yeonwoo (2013) and KBS Mini-series drama, Secret (2013), JTBC Mini-series drama, Just Between Lovers (2017) and Reflection of You (2021). As a Creator, she participated in season 1 (2019) and 2 (2021) of Netflix Original Series, Love Alarm. Snowy Path (2015), which she wrote to commemorate the 70th anniversary of independence from Japan, won an award at the 67th Prix Italia and won the grand prize at the Banff World Media Festival in TV films. The drama was then edited into a movie and released.

Bucheon Choice Jury (Shorts)

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  Jina KIM

  She is a film producer. She started her film career in 1995 with the promotion of imported art films and planning an art film theater program. She has promoted Take Care of My Cat (2001), April Snow (2005) and has produced director My New Boyfriend (2004), Five Senses (2009) , A Good Rain Knows (2009). She works on the various field such as feature, documentary, advertising films, OTT dramas including Woman with a Camera (2011), Rolling Flower (2013), Omok Girls (2018), Plant Life (2020), Two lights: Relumino (2017) and The Present (2019).

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  KIM Kyungmook

  He is a filmmaker based in Seoul. Ranging from experimental video and narrative film to documentary, his films explore the precarity of the marginalized such as homosexuals, transsexuals, sex workers, and North Korean defectors. He made his directorial debut with Me and Doll-playing (2004) at the age of nineteen. Since then, he has made various films, including the Things Trilogy, which consists of Faceless Things (2005), Stateless Things (2011), and Futureless Things (2014). His films have been selected for and received awards in numerous international film festivals such as the Venice Film Festival, the International Film Festival Rotterdam, the BFI London Film Festival, the Museum of Modern Art and the New Museum.

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  Simojukka RUIPPO

  He has been helping as a programmer and pre-programmer Tampere International Short Film Festival for about 30 years. He made a few short documentaries with Mr. Jouni Hokkanen. Some of those films have been selected for Rotterdam IFF, Berlinale, MoMA, Busan IFF, BIFAN, and more than two hundred festivals or special film days worldwide. He currently works for his own short film festival, Antarctic Film Festival, in the continent of Antarctica (probably the only Film Festival in Antarctica).

Netpac Award

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  Ida Anita DEL MUNDO

  She is a writer, filmmaker, and musician. Her first film, K’na, the Dreamweaver (2014), premiered at the 2014 Cinemalaya Film Festival where it received the Special Jury Prize. It won Best of Show at the 2015 Female Eye Film Festival in Toronto, Canada and was recognized by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts with an Ani ng Dangal (Harvest of Winners) award in 2015. K’na the Dreamweaver is the first feature film about the T’boli people of South Cotabato, Mindanao and the first film in the T’boli language. She has gone on to direct documentaries and music videos. She is an active member of the NETPAC and is a screenwriting and directing teacher at the Digital Film Department of De La Salle-College of St. Benilde in Manila, Philippines. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Literature and MFA in Creative Writing, both from De La Salle University-Manila and recently graduated with a Masters in Directing at the School of Visual Arts in New York.

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  KWAK Myungdong

  He has been a film reporter for Metro, Focus, and MyDaily for 20 years from 2002. He published a reading essay, Specific Happiness for Specific Humans (2013) and hosted a podcast Trivial Book Story that deals with books and movies from 2013 to 2014. In 2015, he worked as a guest reporter for Hankyoreh21, a weekly news magazine, and has experience as a film humanities instructor at the Hankyoreh Cultural Center in 2015 and 2019. He worked as a moderator at Diaspora Film Festival from 2014 to 2015, and has been a GV moderator for Korean films and foreign films from 2012 to the present.

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  Jinna LEE

  She is a programmer at Ulju Mountain Film Festival(UMFF). She finished the film studies PhD. Course at Hanyang University. Before joining UMFF, since 2005, she has worked at Jeonju International Film Festival(JIFF), Jaechun International Music and Film Festival(JIMFF), DMZ International Documentary Film Festival(DMZ Docs), Busan International Short Film Festival(BISFF) and International Intangible Heritage Film Festival(IIFF). She has been served jury works at Jokja Netpac Asian Film Festival, Kaohsiung Film Festival, Mar del Plata International Film Festival, Golden Horse Film Festival, Jeonju International Film Festival and Busan International Kids and Youth Film Festival.