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Women and Documentaries Dominate as Prizewinners at Jeonju Film Festival

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Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefDocumentaries and pictures made by female filmmakers dominated the prize ranks of South Korea’s Jeonju International Film Festival.

Some, including “Splinters” which won the festival’s Grand Prize, were qualified on both counts.“Splinters” aka “Esquirlas,” is an Argentinian-made documentary about the military-industrial complex, which premiered last year at the Mar Del Plata festival.

It emerged as an expansion of a home video shot by director Natalia Garayalde, who recorded the explosion of an arms factory in 1995, when she was 12 years old.Another documentary, Marta Popivoda’s “Landscapes of Resistance,” took the best picture award in the festival’s international competition.

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