The 18th Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival (PiFan) announced its line-up today with Maximilian Erlenwein’s German thriller Stereo [pictured] as the opening film.
Stereo received its world premiere in the Berlinale Panorama section in February but will recieve its Asian premiere at PiFan.
The festival’s closing film will be the world premiere of Korean director Kwon Lee’s sophomore feature My Ordinary Love Story, featuring popular stars Song Sae-byeok and Kang Ye-won.
“My Ordinary Love Story starts off as a humorous romantic comedy and later transforms into a horror mystery,” said chief programmer Jangwan Pyeon, describing it and the opening film as representative of the PiFan’s focus on more “complex genre films” this year.
The festival will screen 210 films from 47 countries with 43 world premieres and 20 international premieres. It will run July 17-27 with the closing ceremony on July 25 and encore screenings on the last two days.
Competition titles
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Stereo received its world premiere in the Berlinale Panorama section in February but will recieve its Asian premiere at PiFan.
The festival’s closing film will be the world premiere of Korean director Kwon Lee’s sophomore feature My Ordinary Love Story, featuring popular stars Song Sae-byeok and Kang Ye-won.
“My Ordinary Love Story starts off as a humorous romantic comedy and later transforms into a horror mystery,” said chief programmer Jangwan Pyeon, describing it and the opening film as representative of the PiFan’s focus on more “complex genre films” this year.
The festival will screen 210 films from 47 countries with 43 world premieres and 20 international premieres. It will run July 17-27 with the closing ceremony on July 25 and encore screenings on the last two days.
Competition titles
The Puchon Choice: Feature competition section of 12 titles...
- 6/19/2014
- by hjnoh2007@gmail.com (Jean Noh)
- ScreenDaily
Get ready to spend about four minutes sampling the bloody new flick from Filipino director Ato Bautista, entitled Gemini, courtesy of the purveyors of weird foreign horror flicks over at Twitch! Dig in!
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Synopsis
Julia, a psychiatric patient, is tormented by her demons. Stricken by guilt and fear, she seeks the help of Manuel, a mysterious police detective, to save her from Judith, her estranged evil twin sister who wants her dead. As Julia and Manuel track Judith down and solve the crime that the twins committed years back, the film spirals down to a mind-boggling ride as the truth of Julia’s nightmarish dark past unravels.
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Julia, a psychiatric patient, is tormented by her demons. Stricken by guilt and fear, she seeks the help of Manuel, a mysterious police detective, to save her from Judith, her estranged evil twin sister who wants her dead. As Julia and Manuel track Judith down and solve the crime that the twins committed years back, the film spirals down to a mind-boggling ride as the truth of Julia’s nightmarish dark past unravels.
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- 2/12/2014
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Filipino director Ato Bautista - a great favorite around these parts - is currently in post production on his latest feature, a psychological thriller titled Gemini, and has posted an extended promo for the film online.Julia, a psychiatric patient is tormented by her demons. Stricken by guilt and fear, she seeks the help of Manuel, a mysterious police detective, to save her from Judith, her estranged evil twin sister who wants her dead. As Julia and Manuel track Judith down and solve the crime that the twins committed years back, the film spirals down to a mind boggling ride as the truth of Julia's nightmarish dark past unravels.Running more than four minutes long this is more of an in-progress snapshot of what Bautista and his...
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- 2/12/2014
- Screen Anarchy
Recently named as one of the brightest young Filipino talents by our own Pierre Hombrebueno and with a new project announced as part of the Naff Project Market at PiFan in Korea, Ato Bautista is a director on the rise in the Philippines. But while he is best known for his darker, more genre oriented fare Bautista's newest picture showcases a different side to the director with the CineFilipino selected Memories Of Rain (Mga Alaala ng Tag-ulan) moving into romance territory.Mga Alaala Ng Tag-ulan (Memories of Rain) is a poignant, coming-of-age story about a young man's first encounter with love, romance and heartbreak. It is told in bits and pieces of poetic and melancholic memories, pouring in one rainy night. Santi is a college freshman....
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- 6/15/2013
- Screen Anarchy
Fantastic Film School tutors also revealed.
The Puchon International Film Festival (PiFan)’s industry program, the Network of Fantastic Films (Naff) has announced its selection for this year’s Project Spotlight: the Philippines.
“The Philippines have had a strong presence in genre cinema for some time, but for some reason, it never had outside exposure until maybe very recently. So we thought it would be worthwhile to show not just their films, but also the potential of the projects through this year’s Spotlight so they can hopefully find co-producers and/or funding at Naff,” says Thomas Nam, Naff managing director.
The seven projects in the Spotlight will compete for a total of $50,000 in cash awards and three post-production support awards.
Mondomanila director Khavn De La Cruz [pictured] will be turning his 62nd Berlinale-selected short film, Ruined Heart? Another Love Story About A Criminal And A Whore, into a feature film while director Peter Eduria III, who has worked...
The Puchon International Film Festival (PiFan)’s industry program, the Network of Fantastic Films (Naff) has announced its selection for this year’s Project Spotlight: the Philippines.
“The Philippines have had a strong presence in genre cinema for some time, but for some reason, it never had outside exposure until maybe very recently. So we thought it would be worthwhile to show not just their films, but also the potential of the projects through this year’s Spotlight so they can hopefully find co-producers and/or funding at Naff,” says Thomas Nam, Naff managing director.
The seven projects in the Spotlight will compete for a total of $50,000 in cash awards and three post-production support awards.
Mondomanila director Khavn De La Cruz [pictured] will be turning his 62nd Berlinale-selected short film, Ruined Heart? Another Love Story About A Criminal And A Whore, into a feature film while director Peter Eduria III, who has worked...
- 6/14/2013
- by hjnoh2007@gmail.com (Jean Noh)
- ScreenDaily
The 6th Network of Asian Fantastic Films (Naff) has announced the seven projects that will comprise its spotlight focus on The Philippines this year. Featuring experienced talent such as Richard Somes and Tikoy Aguiluz alongside younger directors who have begun to make their mark, the spotlight promises to showcase the growing strength of Filipino Genre Cinema.Amable 'Tikoy' Aguiluz, who has been active in Filipino Cinema for almost 30 years and founded the Cinemanila Intl. Film Festival, will be presenting Dance of Death, a revenge film set at the gates of hell. The young Ato Bautista, who has quickly established himself with films like Blackout (2007) and his contribution to the horror omnibus Cinco (2010), will participate with the bloody action thriller Bad Blood. Multi-hyphenate Khavn de...
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- 6/14/2013
- Screen Anarchy
Ato Bautista's Palitan (roughly translated as Exchange) opens with a business transaction. Ramiro (Mon Confiado, who gives a performance that carries the film from start to finish), the shrewd owner of an electronics shop, is convincing a client to buy his surveillance cameras. The client, troubled by his wife's brazen infidelity, wants to build proof of her cheating. Ramiro then coolly suggests another one of his wares, a pistol, declaring that the only way for a jealous husband is to kill the cause of jealousy. Ramiro is a convincing businessman. He has a distinct way with words, delivering them with the primary objective of making a sale and enjoying the profit. His client, given the freedom of choosing the surveillance camera or the gun, is hooked...
- 12/7/2012
- Screen Anarchy
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