BISFF
International Competition
Grand Prix |
10,000,000 KRW and a trophy Awarded to the most outstanding film in International Competition |
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Excellence Award (KEYUP Award) |
5,000,000 KRW and a trophy Awarded to an exceptional film in International Competition |
Jury Award |
2,000,000 KRW and a trophy Awarded to a film in International Competition that received special acknowledgement from the jury |
Korean Competition
Grand Prix |
5,000,000 KRW and a trophy Awarded to the most outstanding film in Korean Competition |
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Excellence Award (DMSTUDIO Award) |
3,000,000 KRW and a trophy Awarded to an exceptional film in Korean Competition |
Jury Award (SLRRENT Award) |
1,000,000 KRW Exchange ticket for SLRRENT and a trophy Awarded to a film in Korean Competition that received special acknowledgement from the jury |
Best Acting Award |
A prize and a certificate Awarded to an actor/actress in a film in Korean Competition whose acting was the most outstanding |
NETPAC Award
NETPAC Award |
A prize and a certificate Awarded by NETPAC (Network for the Promotion of Asia Pacific Cinema) to the best Asian film in Competition sections. |
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Operation Kino
Grand Prix |
Blackmagic Cinema Camera 6K and a trophy Awarded to the most outstanding film in Operation Kino |
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Excellence Award |
Blackmagic Cinema Camera 6K G2 and a trophy Awarded to an exceptional film in Operation Kino |
Blackmagic Design Award |
Blackmagic Cinema Camera 6K and a trophy Awarded to a film in Operation Kino chosen by Blackmagic Design |
Audience Award
Audience Award |
A prize and a certificate Awarded to a film in Competition(International, Korean, Operation Kino) chosen by the festival audiences |
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As per the rules of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences pertaining to film festivals, the Oscar®-qualification concerns only the Live Action and Animated Short Film categories. |
JURY
Bill Morrison is an experimental filmmaker who has expanded the techniques and forms of found-footage filmmaker. His feature documentaries have premiered at the New York, Sundance, Telluride, and Venice Film Festival. His films include Deception (2002) and Dawson City: Frozen Time (2016), and his latest, Incident (2023), won Best Short Documentary Film Award of 2023 and the Best Documentary Award the 2024 Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival.
Vanessa Crocini is an Emmy nominated documentary filmmaker from Italy. Based in Los Angeles, Vanessa has extensive experience in documentary filmmaking, editing, producing, photography and video content creation focused on highlighting social change and artivism. Her expertise has broadened into managing artists of all kinds as well as being a creative director, doing consultations for branding and marketing strategies for creatives and nonprofit organizations.
LEE Mirang studied film and creative writing at Seoul Institute of the Arts and film (MFA) at Yonsei University Graduate School of Communication & Art. Her films Getting Married to A Vietnamese Girl (2005), The Bath (2007), and Chunjung (2013) have been screened and awarded at various film festivals, including the Busan International Film Festival, Seoul International Women’s Film Festival, and Busan International Short Film Festival. She has worked as a scriptwriter for LEE Changdong's Poetry (2010) and Zhang Lu's A Quiet Dream (2016). Her first feature film, Concerning My Daughter (2023), premiered at the Busan International Film Festival and is in development for release.
Rashmi Doraiswamy is Professor at the Academy of International Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. her studied Russian language and literature at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. Recipient of the National Award for the Best Film Critic in 1994. Served on several statutory and non-statutory film festival and critics juries in India and abroad (Mannheim, Taiwan, Sochi, Toronto, Karlovy Vary, Alma Ata, Busan). She has been recognized for her scholarly work, publications, and active involvement in the film community both in India and internationally.
Nishitani Kaoru is a Japanese film critic, theorist, and historian about Asin Film. He founded the Fukuoka Independent Film Festival in 2009 and currently serves as Fukuoka Independent Film Festival Producer of International section. He produced A Suspended Moment (2010), A Tale of Heaven (2011), Fukuoka (2019), and the Tenjin Apichatpong Project (TAP).
YOUN Sungeun received her Ph.D. in Film Studies from Hanyang University. She was awarded Best New Critic by the Korean Association of Film Critics in 2011 and the Performing Arts & Film Review (PAF) Film Criticism Award in 2015. He has been writing film and exhibition reviews for various newspapers, magazines, and publications since 2013, starting with "Seoul Shinmun". He is a member of the Korean Association of Film Critics, the International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI), and has served as a program director for the Wildflower Film Awards and the Korea International Ocean Film Festival.
Vanessa Mangiavacca graduated in Cinema and New Media at the University of Turin. Since 2019 she has been working as a contact manager, film programmer and curator of focus out of competition. Since 2020, she collaborates with the Home Movies Foundation where she is responsible for the production of the valorisation projects and the coordination of educational activities. Since 2023, she has been the organisational director of Archivio Aperto film festival, where she is also part of the official competition selection committee. She was part of the Bellaria Film Festival selection committee in 2022 and 2023.
Kim Jinwook works at the production company ‘Studio8’ and teaches cinematography as an adjunct professor at the Korea National University of Arts in Seoul. He directed the documentary UFO Sketch (2020), which was invited to Jeonju International Film Festival, DMZ International Documentary Film Festival, and Cinefantasy International Fantastic Film Festival in Brazil. He is currently filming the documentary Conversations with My Death.
OH Taeseung made his debut as a cinematographer in 2019 with The Hill of the Wind (2019) and has been actively working on feature and short films, fiction and documentaries, without distinction between genres. His short film On White Wind Wall (2020) won the Audience Award at the Diaspora Film Festival, and his documentary The Korean Black Eyes (2023) was screened at the Jecheon International Music Festival and the Seoul Independent Film Festival. He is currently working on the short film Alone (2023) as producer and cinematographer, which will premiere at the Jeonju International Film Festival.
YOUN Sungeun received her Ph.D. in Film Studies from Hanyang University. She was awarded Best New Critic by the Korean Association of Film Critics in 2011 and the Performing Arts & Film Review (PAF) Film Criticism Award in 2015. He has been writing film and exhibition reviews for various newspapers, magazines, and publications since 2013, starting with "Seoul Shinmun". He is a member of the Korean Association of Film Critics, the International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI), and has served as a program director for the Wildflower Film Awards and the Korea International Ocean Film Festival.
Paolo Simoni is co-founder of Home Movies - Archivio Nazionale del Film di Famiglia (Italy), of which he’s director since 2002 and for which he conceived, produced and realized a variety of projects, like the festival Archivio Aperto (since 2008), the film Formato Ridotto: Libere riscritture del cinema amatoriale (2012), the exhibition Cinematic Bologna (2012-13), the digital platform Memoryscapes.it (2019) and the project Home Movies 100 on the Centenary of Small Gauge Film (www.homemovies100.it). He has worked as a researcher and curator with the Cineteca di Bologna and the Festival Il Cinema Ritrovato, where he curated programs of documentary and found-footage film. His work on field meets his academic research on the same subjects: he obtained a PhD on Beni Culturali at the Politecnico University of Turin, and he carried out research both at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia and University of Padova. Among his publications are numerous papers on forms, practices and stories of amateur/experimental cinema and his contemporary reuse, and a monograph, Lost Landscapes. Il cinema amatoriale e la città (Kaplan, Torino 2018).
Mireille has been at the helm of REGARD Festival’s Short Film, Market for two years now, as well as being a member of the programming selection committee. Born in Chicoutimi and raised in Montreal, she studied drama and film. At the same time, her love of words is making its way into her personal projects: her short film script The Bed has just won a development grant, and she’s part of the Quebec Slam League and Saguenay’s Improvisation League.
LEE Angela studied aesthetics at Seoul National University, film making, editing, and visual culture theory at the Korea National University of Arts. Angela wrote about film reviews and columns on popular culture and media in various media such as Munhwa Ilbo, KBS, YTN, and Media Today, and lectured at Korea National University of Arts and Sungkonghoe University, as well as the Seoul International Women's Film Festival, Immigrant Film Festival, and Seoul International Experiment. She introduced films at film festivals, served as director of Film Space Juan, and produced the documentary