BIFAN Festival Director SHIN Chul to Participate in
Conference at the 75th Cannes Film Festival
 

BIFAN festival director to present on
‘The New Era of Festivals: Expanding Beyond Hybrid‘
Asia’s largest genre film festival, BIFAN, expected to create new synergies
with top international film festivals
 
 

¡ã Festival Director SHIN Chul

Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival’s (BIFAN) festival director, SHIN Chul, will be giving a presentation at the Festival Hubs conference at the 75th Cannes Film Festival’s Marché du Film. He will be giving a presentation titled “The New Era of Festivals: Expanding Beyond Hybrid” in front of filmmakers and industry professionals on May 19 at 11:30 a.m. (local time).

Festival Hubs was launched by the Marché du Film last year to create new synergies between film festivals from around the world. Participants of the conference have conversations about core issues faced by film festivals and the film industry, and each film festival gives presentations on their direction and main programs. Asia’s largest genre film festival, BIFAN, plans to share the challenges the festival has taken on over the last two years because of the pandemic, as well as establish networks and use the opportunity as a jumping-off point for collaboration.

At the conference, Festival Director SHIN Chul will be sharing the worries BIFAN faced and the insights it gained while holding the festival during the COVID-19 pandemic. He will be speaking about how the pandemic changed content viewing mediums, language of cinema, and film festivals. He will also be discussing how BIFAN came to actively introduce VR and XR after reestablishing the festival’s mission. Lastly, he will introduce the Scary Tales Campus, a project that was launched to discover origin stories and creators.
 

¡ã Screenshots of highlights from the 2021 Festival Hubs conference

Other presenters that are scheduled to be at the conference include Pune International Film Festival’s festival director, Jabbar PATEL, from India; Karlovy Vary International Film Festival’s Head of Industry, Hugo ROSÁK, from Czechia; and British Film Institute program manager Tegan VEVERS. On hand to moderate will be the founder and CEO of The Festival Agency, Leslie VUCHOT.

Under the slogan of “Stay Strange,” the 26th BIFAN will be held as a hybrid online-offline event for 11 days, from July 7 to 17.