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), 23^rd 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.

 

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)

   

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

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 乩ãó£ºÓÎûýÜÑتîÜñªìÑ	Taiwan	David CHANG	Jade LEE, Webber CHENG, Philo WU