Shin Cheol Appointed as the 10th Executive Chairperson of Bucheon Fantastic Film Festival

Reappointment Decision at the Organizing Committee General Assembly

Shin Cheol, BIFAN Executive Committee Chairman [Photo by Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival]

The Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (BIFAN) announced on the 29th that at the general meeting held on the 20th, Shin Cheol was appointed as the 10th Executive Chairman.

Executive Chairman Shin was inaugurated as the 8th Executive Chairman in September 2018 and was reappointed as the 9th Executive Chairman in 2021. With this decision, he will lead the BIFAN Executive Committee again for three years starting next month. The Executive Chairman is appointed with the approval of the general meeting upon recommendation by the organizing committee.

The 28th BIFAN, which closed on the 14th of last month, newly established the international competition section for artificial intelligence (AI) films for the first time and held the ‘BIFAN+ AI Filmmaking Workshop’ and ‘BIFAN+ AI International Conference.’ The seat occupancy rate in screening theaters was 75.0%, an increase of 14.7 percentage points compared to 60.3% at the 27th festival, and the number of attendees was 69,238, a 3.0% increase from 67,213 at the 27th festival. Executive Chairman Shin successfully led the newly established ‘BIFAN+ AI’ project this year.

Executive Chairman Shin has worked as a film producer for over 30 years, planning and producing films such as Happiness Is Not Based on Grades (1989), Just Because You Are a Woman (1990), Marriage Story (1992), Lie (1999), and My Sassy Girl (2001). He was the first to introduce computer graphics (CG) to Korean cinema with Gumiho (1994) and Banker’s Bedroom (1996), and My Sassy Girl was remade in Hollywood and China. He currently serves as an adjunct professor at the Korea National University of Arts.

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