The BIFAN poster for 2015, created under the theme ‘Urban daily life imbued with fantasy’
The 19th Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (BIFAN) is to start its 11-day adventure on the evening of July 16th. The opening ceremony will be held at the Bucheon Gymnasium, the festival will be hosted by actors, HyunJun Shin and DaHee Lee.
The Chairman of BiFan Organizing Committee, ManSoo Kim, who is also the Mayor of Bucheon will declare the opening of the ceremony and the Festival Director’s Young Bin Kim will be making a welcome speech.
This year’s Opening Film is to be the ‘Moonwalkers’ by the French director Antoine Bardou-Jacquet.
Famous stars from the Korean film industry will be appearing on the red carpet, in the evening of the opening night at 6pm. Some of the stars who will be attending are Minho Lee and Chae Won Moon who are this year’s ‘Producers’ Choice Award winners’ and actors, Il Guk Song, Jae Hyun Cho, Jin Goo, Sang Min Park, Jiho Oh, Han Seon Jo, Kyung Ho Jung and many more will be brightening up the event on the red carpet.
Film directors, Ji Young Jeong, Joon Ik Lee, Yoo Jin Kim, Gil Su Jang, Dae Seung Kim, Jun Hee Hahn and many others will be in attendance.
235 genre films from 45 countries including 62 world premieres will take the BIFAN audiences on a ‘fantastic’ journey for 11 days.
—J. Chung.
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