Some festival news this week, including for PiFan which I am happy to announce that MKC will be covering on site this year! Also some big summer trailers and a pair of great interviews this week.
KOREAN CINEMA NEWS
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Well this is a pretty neat and interesting development, the Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival's (PiFan) Network of Asian Fantastic Films (NAFF) has selected Indonesia as for its spotlight this year. Following Taiwan, China, Singapore and Japan, this is a major boon for Indonesian cinema and likely has something to do with the added exposure afforded by the phenomenal success of last year's The Raid. NAFF seeks to promote genre film in Asian cinema and they selected the country based on their belief that it is "a rising Mecca of Asian genre films", hearty praise from the continent's biggest fantastic film festival. Here is a little more info on the 5 projects that have been chosen from NAFF's own press release:
