Kang Soo-yeon named jury head of PIFF award

Korean actress Kang Soo-yeon has been selected to head the jury of the Flash Forward Award at Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF), according to a press release by the organizing committee on Thursday.

The Flash Forward Award, first introduced at PIFF in 2007, was originally created to introduce the first or second features of up-and-coming non-Asian directors. This year, the committee turned the section into a competition.

Other jury members include Marianne Slot (producer/Denmark), Frederic Boyer(artistic director of the Directors’ Fortnight of Cannes/France), and Alissa Simon(programmer/U.S.).

Kang has won Best Actress awards at several international film festivals, most notably at Venice in 1987 for her role in "The Surrogate Mother" and at Moscow in 1989 for "Come Come Come Upward", earning her the nickname "World Star" in Korea.

The film festival kicks off today in Pusan and will end October 16.

Reporter : Lynn Kim lynn2878@asiae.co.kr
Editor : Jessica Kim jesskim@asiae.co.kr