Organisation will aim to improve business dealings for the country’s importers and distributors.
Today (Oct 8) at Busan International Film Festival (Biff), Korean film companies teamed to launch the Foreign Film Buyer-Distributors Association of Korea.
Led by CEOs Sangjin Jung of Atnine Film, Peter Seo of The Coup, Nan-sook Kim of Jinjin Pictures and Kim Sang Yun of Cinelux, representatives of 21 companies gathered to announce their new cooperative organisation which plans to improve business dealings for importers and distributors.
The association aims, through discussion and the sharing of information, to deal with issues such as over-competitive bidding wars at festivals and markets, improvement of fair trade in local theatrical and digital distribution, piracy, and local international film festival screening rights.
Seo noted the association has been a long time coming and said they hope to make “policy suggestions for the promotion of film” as well.
“In Japan, foreign film buyers have been active as a group since 1952 so...
Today (Oct 8) at Busan International Film Festival (Biff), Korean film companies teamed to launch the Foreign Film Buyer-Distributors Association of Korea.
Led by CEOs Sangjin Jung of Atnine Film, Peter Seo of The Coup, Nan-sook Kim of Jinjin Pictures and Kim Sang Yun of Cinelux, representatives of 21 companies gathered to announce their new cooperative organisation which plans to improve business dealings for importers and distributors.
The association aims, through discussion and the sharing of information, to deal with issues such as over-competitive bidding wars at festivals and markets, improvement of fair trade in local theatrical and digital distribution, piracy, and local international film festival screening rights.
Seo noted the association has been a long time coming and said they hope to make “policy suggestions for the promotion of film” as well.
“In Japan, foreign film buyers have been active as a group since 1952 so...
- 10/8/2016
- by hjnoh2007@gmail.com (Jean Noh)
- ScreenDaily
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