Busan Says On Course For Successful 2023 Festival, Despite Management Turmoil; Sets Line-Up Presser For Sept. 5
deadline.comKorea’s Busan International Film Festival issued a heartfelt statement today, promising to “do our best for the successful hosting” of this year’s edition of the October festival, which has been in turmoil for the past few months following a series of high-profile management exits.
The festival said it held a board meeting yesterday where the composition and main agendas of an ‘Innovation Committee’ had been decided.
The committee will look at issues affecting the festival both internally and externally, and move to stabilise its operations.
It was previously announced that program director Nam Dong-chul and deputy director Kang Seung-ah would take over as acting heads of the festival, replacing former festival director Huh Moonyung, and former managing director Cho Jongkook, respectively. “With this, the problems that surrounded the festival for the past two months, within and outside of the organization, have been concluded, and members of the executive committee and secretariat are now preparing for this year’s festival in earnest,” BIFF said in a statement directed at its public audience and industry guests. “Of course there are still many scars to heal and improvements to be made at the festival.
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