[BIFF Press Release] Busan International Film Festival (43) (2019.10.01)
The 24th Busan International Film Festival Holds
‘VR Cinema in BIFF’
Busan International Film Festival and Barunson celebrated its 3rd anniversary with 'VR Cinema in BIFF', Asia's largest VR cinema event, co-hosted since 2017.
Three media venues ‘VR Theater', 'Dive in VR' and ‘Hologram Theater’ that reflects an expanded reality, will be run under the sub-theme of Next Reality. The VR Conference, which is a place to conduct case studies and new technologies for filmmakers and industry professionals, is also set. ‘VR Cinema in BIFF’ will surely become an event that can be enjoyed by both the public audience and experts through a variety of content provided.
■ VR CINEMA IN BIFF Screening and Events Schedule
Title | Date | Venue | Note | |
VR THEATER | Oct. 4th-11th | BIFF HILL 1F, Busan Cinema Center | * A variety of VR, AR contents and installations are exhibited * All the contents exhibited at the VR Theater is open to public (Free of charge). | |
HOLOGRAM THEATER | Oct. 4th-11th | Cinemountain 6F, Busan Cinema Center | * Watch new media performances mixed with holograms and VR contents and experience VR contents * All the contents exhibited at the VR Theater is open to public (Free of charge). | |
DIVE IN VR | Oct. 4th-10th | BIFF Square, Nampo-dong | * New event in 2019, VR movie and games that can be used by the public through Nampo-dong Community BIFF. * All the contents exhibited at the VR Theater are open to public (Free of charge). | |
VR Conference | Branching Narratives: the Way in a Maze | Oct. 5th, 17:00~19:00 | Cine Mountain 6F, Busan Cinema Center | * PANELISTS 1) Richard Pring(WALES INTERACTIVE,Technical Director) 2)SHIN Seong Joon (JUNES PICTURES, Director) 3)David BANNER (WALES INTERACTIVE, Managing Director) 4)Vanz KIM (UNITY TECHNOLOGIES KOREA, Head of Evangelist) |
Unity VR Special | Oct. 6th , 17:00~19:00 | Cine Mountain 6F, Busan Cinema Cente | *PANELISTS 1) ITOH Keisuke (Director of Feather) 2) MACHIBA Katsutoshi (PD of Feather) 3) John OH (UNITY TECHNOLOGIES KOREA, Lead Evangelist) | |
Next Reality in Busan | Oct. 7th, 13:30~15:00 | Seminar room, Bexco Exhibition hall 2 | *PANELISTS 1)Choi Yun (VREZ innovation inc., Vice President) 2) Kim Yu Jin (Busan city Film & Contents Industry Division, Director) 3) Lee In Sook (Busan IT Industry Promotion Agency, President & CEO) |
■ VR THEATER Screening List
Title | Director | Year | Genre | Duration | |
1 | The Key | Celine Tricart | 2019 | Drama/Fantasy | 20 |
2 | Code of Freedom 1991 | Andrius Lekavicius | 2018 | Documentary | 10 |
3 | Downloaded | Ollie Rankin | 2019 | Sci-Fi | 8 |
4 | Bonfire | Eric Darnell | 2019 | Sci-Fi/Animation | 18 |
5 | Mother of the Forest | Kylie Caraway | 2019 | Documentary | 15 |
6 | EXT : Episode 1 | Wooksang Chang, Won Jeon | 2019 | Sci-Fi/Animation | 15 |
7 | Half-Hundred Mirrors | Yu Hong, | 2019 | Documentary | 9 |
8 | Gloomy Eyes 1~2 | Jorge Teres, Fernando Maldonado | 2019 | Fantasy/Animation | 18 |
9 | The Tide 1~6, | Yoo Tae-Kyoung | 2019 | Sci-Fi/Webtoon | 18 |
10 | Spice & Wolf VR | Hasekura Isuna | 2019 | Fantasy /Animation | 20 |
11 | Awake | Martin Taylor | 2018 | Drama/Volumetric | 20 |
12 | Feather | Keisuke Itoh | 2019 | Drama/Animation | 12 |
13 | The bird I made, | Seo Kim & Young-Ho Myoung | 2019 | Road Fantasy | 15 |
14 | Memoria: Stories of La Garma | Rafael Pavon | 2019 | Documentary | 8 |
15 | Abandoned Temple | Wei-Hao CHENG | 2018 | Horror/Drama | 9 |
16 | Battlescar : Punk was invented by girls | Marin Allais & Nico Casavecchia | 2019 | Drama/Animation | 28 |
17 | A Memory of the Wind | Heung-Sik Park | 2019 | Documentary | 19 |
18 | Wedding | Myoung-Hwa KIM & Byung-Hoon In | 2019 | Documentary | 32 |
19 | Decalcomani | Si-Yeon KIM | 2019 | Fantasy/Drama | 28 |
20 | Merry Me | Jae-bin HAN | 2019 | Comedy | 20 |
21 | Vacation | Ho-Young Kweon | 2019 | Thriller | 25 |
22 | Horizon | Tae-Seok OH | 2019 | Drama | 14 |
23 | Afterimage for Tomorrow | Singing CHEN | 2018 | Art | 20 |
24 | Memory of the Day | Ji-Young Kang | 2019 | Drama | 25 |
25 | Dangerous Jobs: Devils Gold | Ericson Gangoso | 2019 | Documentary | 11 |
26 | The Break | Jae-bin HAN | 2019 | Drama | 34 |
27 | It was there | Min-Gi JO | 2019 | Drama | 10 |
28 | 1K | Nobuyuki Oomori | 2018 | Drama | 25 |
29 | Daughters Of Chibok | Joel Kachi Benson | 2019 | Documentary | 12 |
30 | Pheonix IX | Abhi Kumar | 2019 | Sci-Fi/Animation | 30 |
31 | Live Stream from YUKI <3 | Tsung-Han TSAI | 2018 | Drama | 12 |
32 | I am to you. I do not need words | Yuji Sato | 2018 | Drama | 7 |
33 | Black Worketh | Koon-Je Park | 2019 | Art | 5 |
34 | GeGeGe no Kitaro Souls and Art VR Ceremonial Bonfire to Send Off Souls Full Ver.,2019 | Masafumi Mikami | 2019 | Fantasy/Animation | 14 |
35 | Late Shift | Tobias Weber | 2016 | Thriller/Crime | 60 |
36 | Pilgrim Father | Young Chan Do | 2019 | Thriller/Sci-Fi | 60 |
37 | Made VR | Seong-Joon Shin | 2019 | Thriller/Crime | 60 |
38 | Fire Escape: An Interactive VR Series | Navid Khonsari & Vassiliki Khonsari | 2019 | Thriller/Crime | 20 |
39 | The Cave | Tom WALLER | 2019 | Documentary | 3 |
40 | In the Grey | Jin-Kyung Jeon | 2019 | Installation | 3 |
41 | Depth of Circle | Jin-Kyung Jeon | 2018 | Installation | 3 |
■ DIVE IN VR Screening List
| Title | Director | Year | Genre | Duration |
1 | Gauguin's Inner journey | Ha-Youn Kwon | 2018 | Art | 5 |
2 | Isle of the Dead | ARNOLD BOCKLIN | 2018 | Art | 5 |
3 | Ahn Junggeun | Jae-bin HAN | 2017 | Drama | 4 |
4 | Horomaru | Jae-Gyun HONG | 2018 | Thriller/Horror | 18 |
5 | On the Road | Min-Jun KIM | 2018 | Drama | 5 |
6 | From the Earth | Hyung-Yun CHANG | 2018 | Horror/Mystery | 10 |
7 | Help Me | Tae-Kyung YOO | 2018 | Horror/Mystery | 10 |
8 | Walking in the sky | *VR Game | 2017 | Horror Experience | 5 |
9 | Into the Rhythm | *VR Game | 2017 | Rythm Game | 5 |
10 | Billion Hood | *VR Game | 2017 | Arcade Shooting | 5 |
■ HOLOGRAM THEATER Screening List
| Title | Director | Year | Genre | Duration |
1 | Holobeat | Jun-young Bang | 2019 | Installation | 5 |
2 | Hidden Story | Young-jae Na | 2019 | History | 40 |
The 24th Busan International Film Festival will be held from October 3 to October 12, 2019
Asian Film Market 2019 will be held from October 5 to October 8, 2019