Asian Contents & Film Market 2022 Launches ‘Festival Zone’!

Asian Contents & Film Market (ACFM) 2022, which has been growing as Asia’s largest film and audiovisual sales market, has organized ‘Festival Zone’. A variety of projects and IPs discovered at the 5 Korean film festivals (The Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival, the DMZ International Documentary Film Festival, the Jeonju International Film Festival, the Busan International Kids and Youth Film Festival, and the Busan International Short Film Festival) will be presented at the ‘Festvial Zone’.

The Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival’s Goedam (Strange Tales) Campus, a creative support program for strange tales, will showcase 8 new creators’ strange tale projects at the Busan Story Market. The festival will also recruit participants for ‘Work In Progress’ of ‘B.I.G (BIFAN Industry Gathering)’, a platform for genre films, as well as promote ‘Digital November’ for its XR Program, Beyond Reality, at the ‘Festival Zone’ booth.

The DMZ International Documentary Film Festival will announce the DMZ Docs Fund and the official selections of the DMZ Docs Pitch program for the ‘DMZ Docs industry’, which is an industry platform that supports each stage of documentary production.

The Jeonju International Film Festival will show selections from its industry programs, which include the ‘JEONJU Cinema Project: Next Edition’, ‘JEONJU lab’, and ‘RoughCut Monitoring’, and advertise next year’s open call projects. The Busan International Kids and Youth Film Festival and the Busan International Short Film Festival will also join the market. These 5 Korean film festivals will have opportunities for on-site meetings with officials from domestic and foreign film festivals and the film industry, and for the pre-promotion of their upcoming festivals in 2023.

‘Festival Zone’ is significant as it provides opportunities to further promote K-content and intermediates between domestic content and overseas industry officials. As expectations heighten from the global success of K-content, including Parasite (2019) and Squid Game (2021), ACFM is gathering expectation for launching ‘Festival Zone’. ACFM will be held for 4 days from 8-11 Oct at the Busan Exhibition and Convention Center (BEXCO).