5. Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival // Bucheon, South Korea // July 2018
South Korea’s Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival may be a government-funded operation, “but there is no sense of any kind of censorship,” says a panelist. A “nurturing place, where lots of classes are given by filmmakers,” BiFan’s events include a number of workshops on craft, and highlight perennial areas of interest for genre filmmakers like book adaptation, as well as the importance of “strong, monstrous, and badass” female figures in horror cinema. “Incredible in both curation and scale, BiFan was also the first of the genre festivals to have a co-production market dedicated to fantastic filmmaking,” notes a panelist.
Film critic Cho Hye-young speaks at the “Terrible Women: The Strong, the Monstrous, and the Badass” Mega Talk event at Bucheon International Film Festival. Photograph courtesy of Bucheon International Film Festival
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