Busan Film Festival Launching In-Person Story Market as Demand for Korean Content Booms
variety.comPatrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefThe Asian Contents and Film Market, the industry component of the Busan International Film Festival, is to launch an in-person story market at this year’s event.The ACFM has for ten years operated what it called an Entertainment Intellectual Property Market.
But where the E-IP Market has been a one-way pitching event, the new Busan Story Market is conceived as something functionally closer to a conventional rights market, with buyers and sellers meeting at sales booths, but trading books, webtoons, web novels, games, and stories.The Busan Story Market is an outgrowth of the E-IP event and will operate in addition to the continuing pitching sessions.
It will run Oct. 8-11, 2022, at the Busan Exhibition and Convention Center (BEXCO). The ACFM will also operate other recurring industry support strands, including the Asian Project Market (Oct.
9-11), Platform Busan (a platform that expands the production environment by establishing a network for film professionals (Oct.
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