'Anticipation for Entries Amid Special Excitement'... Call for Submissions for 2021 Pyeongchang International Peace Film Festival Support Projects

Original Creative Works on Social Issues, Peace, Inter-Korean Relations, and Unification Topics

[Asia Economy Reporter La Young-cheol] The 2021 PyeongChang International Peace Film Festival (PIPFF) pitching project application has begun.

On the 9th, the festival organizing committee announced that it is accepting pitching project applications until the 12th to discover and support innovative and insightful project developments.

The submissions must be original creations in the form of a treatment that can be turned into a screenplay, covering topics related to inter-Korean relations, social issues, or peace, without any genre restrictions.

Anyone can apply regardless of film experience, either individually or as a team. Each applicant or team is limited to one project, and when applying as a team, up to two people including one co-participant are allowed.

The support categories are divided into 'Era Sympathy' and 'Unification Sympathy.' 'Era Sympathy' covers items depicting social issues and peace-related themes such as ▲anti-peace situations like war, conflict, and refugees ▲inequality against social minorities such as women and children ▲international issues like race, gender, and ethnicity ▲and themes of coexistence, communication, harmony, conflict, and mutual understanding.

'Unification Sympathy' focuses on topics related to inter-Korean relations, including unification, division, exchange, reconciliation, and cooperation.

A pitching workshop will be held on June 18 for finalists, followed by a public pitching presentation on the 19th. Two winning projects will be selected from each category, totaling four, with prize money of 30 million KRW distributed variably to each winner.

The winners will be announced at the awards ceremony held on the closing day of the festival (the 22nd), and applications can be submitted through the PyeongChang International Peace Film Festival website (www.pipff.org). Finalists will be announced on the website in early May.

Now in its third year, the PyeongChang International Peace Film Festival is held in the Hoenggye and Alpensia areas of Daegwallyeong-myeon, PyeongChang-gun, Gangwon Province, serving as an international cultural exchange platform through films conveying the message 'A NEW HOPE.'

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