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The 28th Busan International Film Festival Reveals its Official Poster!

🎬The 28th Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) has unveiled its official film festival and Asian Contents & Film Market (ACFM) posters. 

Inspired by vibrant rays of light passing through a revolving prism, the posters symbolically represent the radiant energy of BIFF and its presence as Asia’s largest film festival.

Please look forward to the 2023 Busan International Film Festival and Asian Contents & Film Market!✨ 

🔴 Submission Deadline Approaching for the 2023 Asia Contents Awards & Global OTT Awards!

The submission period for the 2023 Asia Contents Awards & Global OTT Awards, which has expanded its scope from Asian to global content categories, is about to close. This year, the awards promise a more diversified content recognition, marking a significant shift. Don’t miss your chance to submit your works!

⏰ Submission Deadline: Aug 21, (Mon) 23:59 KST

🔴 Apply for Festival Badge

Also, remember to apply for badges! Early bird registration for Festival Badges will be open from Aug 1 (Tues) to Aug 31 (Thurs), 15:00 KST.  General registration follows, available from Sept 1 (Fri) to Sept 13 (Wed), 15:00 KST. Check the official website (https://www.biff.kr/eng) to learn more and register for this year’s badges. 

About the author

Panos Kotzathanasis

Panagiotis (Panos) Kotzathanasis is a film critic and reviewer, specialized in Asian Cinema. He is the owner and administrator of Asian Movie Pulse, one of the biggest portals dealing with Asian cinema. He is a frequent writer in Hancinema, Taste of Cinema, and his texts can be found in a number of other publications including SIRP in Estonia, Film.sk in Slovakia, Asian Dialogue in the UK, Cinefil in Japan and Filmbuff in India.

Since 2019, he cooperates with Thessaloniki Cinematheque in Greece, curating various tributes to Asian cinema. He has participated, with video recordings and text, on a number of Asian movie releases, for Spectrum, Dekanalog and Error 4444. He has taken part as an expert on the Erasmus+ program, “Asian Cinema Education”, on the Asian Cinema Education International Journalism and Film Criticism Course.

Apart from a member of FIPRESCI and the Greek Cinema Critics Association, he is also a member of NETPAC, the Hellenic Film Academy and the Online Film Critics Association.

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