SEOUL International Women's Film Festival

Seoul International Women’s Film Festival

Location	South Korea SEOUL
Founded	1997
Festival date	May, Every year
Language	Korean / International
Website	www.wffis.or.kr

SEOUL International Women’s Film Festival (SIWFF, previously International Women's Film Festival in Seoul, IWFFIS) first took place on April 1, 1997, which marked the second appearance of the international film festival in Korea following Busan International Film Festival launched in 1996. This was the time when there was no clear idea about how to define a film festival. At that time, SEOUL International Women’s Film Festival came up with a catchphrase See the world through women’s eyes, setting its main goal to introduce women’s films that explore the “women’s reality from the women’s perspectives”. Featuring films by women, for women, and of women, the 1st edition of SEOUL International Film Festival received a number of positive reviews from the audience, which was never anticipated this much. Thanks to continuous support from the audience, SEOUL International Film Festival that used to be happening every other year has become an annual event since the 3rd edition in 2001. For the 6th edition in 2004, SEOUL International Women’s Film Festival looked for changes by relocating the festival office and venues to Sinchon, the street of youth and culture. For the 9th edition in 2007, the Queer Rainbow section was first introduced, presenting films about life and culture of gender minorities. In order to go beyond the gender boundaries based on biological sex and to reach out for solidarity, SEOUL International Women’s Film Festival newly created the Open Cinema section encompassing feminist films made by male directors. Now in 2015, SEOUL International Film Festival attempts to build its new festival identity and become a cultural platform more approachable for a wide variety of audiences by changing the official English title of the festival from International Women’s Film Festival in Seoul to SEOUL International Women’s Film Festival as well as by retouching the festival logo used for last 17 years.

Characteristics

• Known as the world’s largest international women’s film festival.
• Playing a central role in building a women’s film network both across Asia and the world.
• Discovering Asian women filmmakers and supporting women’s film projects.
• Creating a new breed of women’s culture as an agent of cultural production.

Awards

• Asian Short Film & Video Competition : This one and only competition of the festival first took off in 2001 in order to discover talented Asian women filmmakers. Since the 16th edition, SEOUL International Women’s Film Festival has been receiving support from Sungjoo Group, and “SUNGJOO Grand Prize” and “SUNGJOO First Prize” are given to the best films in this section. Asian Short Film & Video Competition has produced a number of talented Korean women directors such as Jeong Jae-eun, Park Chan-ok, Jang Hee-sun, Lee Kyoung-mi, Roh Deok, and Hong Jae-hee.
• I-Teens : This section is to discover teenage female filmmakers and support their future. The teenage audience jury called “I-Teens” views the films selected after preliminary evaluations during the festival period, decides the winner of “I-Teens Award” through passionate discussion, and announces the result at the closing ceremony.
• Documentary Ock-Rang Award: SEOUL International Women’s Film Festival supports documentary production in collaboration with the Ock-Rang Cultural Foundation. This program is to promote and support the documentary projects led by Korean women directors as well as to raise social awareness about women’s issues. Documentary Ock-Rang Award is given to the best project, and the film will be world-premiered a year after at SEOUL International Women’s Film Festival.

List of the Documentary Ock Rang Awardees

• Pitch & Catch : In 2012, SEOUL International Film Festival launched the “Pitch & Catch” program that supports planning, development, and production of 5 feature film and 5 documentary projects. The participants are given the opportunities to participate in open pitching events and business meetings as well as the total prize of approximately 34,000 USD. The projects selected in this “Pitch & Catch” program include An Ethics Lesson, Two Wedding and a Funeral, Grape Candy, The Cat Funeral (Feature Films), 2 Lines, My Father's Emails, My, No-Mercy Home, Wandering Stars, Nora Noh, and The Empire of Shame (Documentaries).

History

• The 1st International Women’s Film Festival in Seoul (1997)

Apr 11, 1997 - Apr 17, 1997

Films Screened : 38 works from 9 countries

Festival Venues : Dong Soong Hall at Dong Soong Art Center

Official Attended Guests : 4 people from 3 countries

Total Audiences : 19,900 (paid audiences: 16,302)

Opening Film : The Widow (Mimang-in) (Park Nam-ok/Korea)

Closing Films(Awardees) : To Be (Park Chan-ok/Korea) / Welcome (JANG Hee-sun/Korea) / A Mirror's Story (KIM Si-kyoung/Korea)

Programs : Opening Film, New Currents, Asian-Pacific Cinema, Korean Cinema, Polemics-Fighting Back, Deep Focus : New German Feminist Cinema, Short Film & Video Competition

• The 2nd International Women’s Film Festival in Seoul (1999)

Apr 16, 1999 ∼ Apr 23, 1999

Films Screened : 52 works from 9 countries

Festival Venues : Dong Soong Hall at Dong Soong Art Center

Official Attended Guests : 2 people from 2 countries

Total Audiences : 21,400 (paid audiences: 16,738)

Opening Film : Red Suit (Li Shaohong/China)

Closing Films(Awardees) : Secret Diary (Jeong Jae-eun/Korea, Grand Prize) / Drying Red Pepper (JANG Hee-sun/Korea, First Prize) / To Be / Not To Be (YI Kyung-hee/Korea, First Prize) / Drying Red Pepper (JANG Hee-Sun/Korea, People's Choice)

Programs : Opening Film, New Currents, Deep Focus-Imagining Subversive Fantasy, Korean Cinema Retrospective - Madame's Rubber Shoes, Community Film making, Short Film & Video Competition

• The 3rd International Women’s Film Festival in Seoul (2001)

Apr 15, 2001 - Apr 22, 2001

Films Screened : 67 works from 15 countries

Festival Venues : Dongsoong Hall and Hypertheque NADA

Official Attended Guests : 11 people from 8 countries

Total Audiences : 29,500 (paid audiences: 22,589)

Opening Film : Koryu: Southern Women, South Korea (KIM So-young / Korea)

Closing Films : Moon Set's Rain Fall's (PARK Hye Min/Korea) / Psycho Drama (YUN Jae-yeon/ Korea) / Deadline (Ensieh Shah-Hosseini/Iran) / Dear Tari (Chieko Yamagami/Japan)

Awardees : Grand Prize : Moon Set’s Rain Fall’s (PARK Hye Min/Korea), First Prize : Psycho Drama (YUN Jae-yeon/Korea), Deadline (Ensieh Shah-Hosseini/Iran), People's Choice : Dear Tari (CHIEKO Yamagami /Japan), IF Award : The Dream (KIM Jae-eui/Korea), Women's News Award : Jae-hee’s Story on the Sexual Harassment at Workplace (Korean Women Workers Associations United/JANG Hee-Sun/Korea)

Programs : Opening Film, New Currents, Women under Fire, Korean Cinema Retrospetctive - Gender Trouble, Short Film & Video Competition, Feminist Film and Video Activism Community, Special Retrospective : Agnès Varda, Focus on Contemporary Taiwanese Women Filmmakers

• The 4th International Women’s Film Festival in Seoul (2002)

Apr 4, 2002 - Apr 12, 2002

Films Screened : 80 works from 19 countries

Festival Venues : Dongsoong Hall and Hypertheque NADA

Official Attended Guests : 15 people from 9 countries

Total Audiences : 32,000 (paid audiences: 23,335)

Opening Film : Violet Perfume: Nobody Hears You (Maryse Sistach/Maxico)

Closing Films : Family Project: House of a Father (JO Yun-kyoung/Korea), Too Happy to Die (CHOI Jin-young/Korea), Bait (KIM Kyoung-hee/Korea), The Moonchild (KIM Kyung-hwa/Korea)

Awardees : Grand Prize : Family Project (JO Yun-kyoung/Korea), First Prize : Too Happy to Die (CHOI Jin-young/Korea), Bait (KIM Kyoung-hee/Korea), People's Choice : The Moonchild (KIM Kyung-hwa/Korea), IF Award: Keeping the Vision Alive (Yim Soon-rye/Korea), Women's News Award : Winter to Winter (PARK Oak-soon/Korea), Documentary Ock Rang Award : Waiting for Spring (JUNG Sue-yeon/Korea), A Wedding Gift (YI Choung-hwa/Korea)

Programs : Opening Film, New Currents, Deep Focus : Grrrl Power, Korean Cinema Retrospective : Women as Sexual Outlaw, Asian Cinema : A View on Indian Independent Women, Focus on Tahmineh Milani, Feminist Film and Video Activism, Asian Short Film & Video Competition

• The 5th International Women’s Film Festival in Seoul (2003)

Apr 11, 2003 - Apr 18, 2003

Films Screened : 117 works from 19 countries

Festival Venues : Dongsoong Hall and Hypertheque NADA

Official Attended Guests : 25 people from 12 countries

Total Audiences : 32,300 (paid audiences: 26,297)

Opening Film : A Smile (Park Kyung-hee/Korea)

Closing Films : Oh! Beautiful Life (KIM In-suk/Korea), The Ballads of Grandmothers (LEE Ching-hui/Taiwan), She Loves to Massage Feet (LEE Doh/Korea), The Secret of Heaven (SUN Koh/Singapore)

Awardees : Grand Prize : Oh! Beauriful Life (KIM In-suk/Korea), First Prize : The Ballads of Grandmothers (LEE Ching-hui/Taiwan), She Loves to Massage Feet (LEE Doh/Korea), People's Choice : The Secret Heaven (SUN Koh/Singapore), IF Award : A Smile (PARK Kyung-hee/Korea), Women's News Award : Turtle Sisters (Women with Disabilities Empathy/Women Visual Collective WOM/Korea), Documentary Ock Rang Award : Life Goes On (RYU Mi-rye/Korea)

Programs : Opening Film, New Currents, Deep Focus : Feminist Experimental Film/Video, Korean Cinema Retrospective : Femme Fatale of a Thousand Faces, Do Kum-bong, Asian Cinema: Filipina Cinema Panorama, Focus on Léa Pool, Feminist Film and Video Activism, Asian Short Film & Video Competition, Documentary Ock Rang Award, Special Screening

• The 6th International Women’s Film Festival in Seoul (2004)

Apr 2, 2004 - Apr 9, 2004

Films Screened : 73 works from 20 countries

Festival Venues : Atreon Theater 1, 2 / Cineplex Noksaek 3

Official Attended Guests : 17 people from 9 countries

Total Audiences : 33,300 (paid audiences: 27,179)

Opening Film : In the Cut (Jane Campion/Australia, USA)

Closing Films : Feel Good Story (Lee Kyoung-mi/Korea), I Want to Invite You (KIM A-young/Korea), The Island of Mine (WANG I-hwa/Taiwan), Feel Good Story (Lee Kyoung-mi/Korea)

Awardees : Grand Prize : Feel Good Story (Lee Kyoung-mi/Korea), First Prize : I Want to Invite You (KIM A-young/Korea), The Island of Mine (WANG I-hua/Taiwan), People's Choice : Feel Good Story (Lee Kyoung-mi/Korea), IF Award : Invisible Light (Gina Kim/Korea), Women's News Award : Salt - Korean Railway Women Workers Story (PARK Jeong-suk/Korea), Forgotten Warriors (KIM Jin-yeul/Korea), Documentary Ock Rang Award : he Eldest Daughter-in-law(Tentative Title) (JOUNG Ho-hyun/Korea)

Programs : Opening Film, New Currents, Young Feminist Forum, Asian Cinema : A Testimonial to Women in Classical Japanese Cinema, Focus on Margarethe von Trotta, Feminist Film and Video Activism, Asian Short Film & Video Competition, Documentary Ock Rang Award

• The 7th International Women’s Film Festival in Seoul (2005)

Apr 8, 2005 ~ Apr 15, 2005

Films Screened : 86 works from 27 countries

Festival Venues : Artreon 1,2,4

Official Attended Guests : 19 people from 16 countries

Total Audiences : 33,500 (paid audiences: 27,059)

Opening Film : The Holy Girl (Lucrecia Martel/Argentina)

Closing Films : Flowering Day (KIM Bo-jeong/ Korea), Garivergas (KIM Sun-min / Korea), Ooh, You Make Me Sick (SOHN Won-pyung/ Korea)

Awardees: Grand Prize: Flowering Day (KIM Bo-jeong/Korea), First Prize: Garivegas (KIM Sun-min/Korea), Ooh, You Make Me Sick (SOHN Won-pyung/Korea), People's Choice: Flowering Day (KIM Bo-jeong/Korea), IF Award: The Helmet (One/Korea), Women’s News Award: Mamasang: Remember Me This Way (KIM Il-rhan/CHO Hye-young/Korea), Documentary Ock Rang Award: Shocking Family (Kyung-soon/Korea), We Are Not Defeated (Tentative Title) (LEE Hye-ran/Korea)

Programs : Opening Film, New Currents, Young Feminist Forum, Korean Cinema Retrospective: Confessing Women, Turkish Cinema Panorama: Living as a Woman in Islamic Culture, Focus on Věra Chytilová, Feminist Film and Video Activism, Asian Short Film & Video Competition, Documentary Ock Rang Award

• The 8th International Women’s Film Festival in Seoul (2006)

Apr 6, 2006 ~ Apr 14, 2006

Films Screened : 96 works from 33 countries

Festival Venues : Artreon 1, 2, 4

Official Attended Guests : 20 people from 12 countries

Total Audiences : 33,000

Opening Film : Sisters in Law (Kim Longinotto, Florence Ayisi/UK,Cameroon)

Closing Films : Atomic Punch, My Darling (SUN Jee-yeon/Korea), Oh! My Mum (Chang Nai-Yun/Taiwan), Cheftzi On Air (Dalit Eliraz/Israel), Excellent Work! (JEONG Da-mi/Korea)

Awardees : First Prize : Atomic Punch, My Darling (SUN Jeeyeon/Korea), Oh! My Mum (CHANG Nai-Yun/Taiwan), Cheftzi On Air (Dalit Eliraz/Israel), People's Choice : Excellent Work! (JEONG Da-mi/Korea), IF Award: The Flash and Bone (Amy Lee/Korea), Women’s News Award : Unlimited Girls (Paromita Vohra/India), Please, Have the Menses! (SON Hyun-ju/Korea), Documentary Ock Rang Award: Lesbian Censorship in School 2 (LEE young/Korea)

Programs : Opening Film, New Currents, African Cinema : My Africas, Feminist Documentary Pioneers : Thousand Voices, Focus on Marleen Gorris, Feminist Film and Video Activism, Korean Cinema in Focus : Women, People, and Korean New Wave, Asian Short Film & Video Competition, Documentary Ock Rang Award

• The 9th International Women’s Film Festival in Seoul (2007)

Apr 5, 2007 ~ Apr 12, 2007

Films Screened : 100 works from 29 countries

Festival Venues : Artreon 1, 2, 4

Official Attended Guests : 30 people from 13 countries

Total Audiences : 40,000

Opening Film : Antônia (Tata Amaral/Brazil)

Closing Films : You Will Know (KIM Young-jae/Korea), Housekeeper (Emel Çelebi/Turkey), Seung-a (KIM Na-young/Korea)

Awardees : Grand Prize: You Will Know (KIM Young-jae/Korea), First Prize: Housekeeper (Emel Çelebi/Turkey), Be with Me (KIM Na-young/Korea), People's Choice: You Will Know (KIM Young-jae/Korea), ※ Special Mention: Bin Woman Baseball Team (KIM Jung Sun/Korea), Women’s News Award: A Passing Rain (KIM Myoung-hwa/Korea), Grrl X-ing (Reel Grrls/America), Documentary Ock Rang Award: F2M (Tentative Title) (Kim Il-rhan (Collective for Sexually Minor Cultures pinks/Korea))

Programs: Opening Film, New Currents, Women Migrants : Invisible People, Focus on Márta Mészáros, Youth Program : Girls on Film, Empire and Women, Queer Rainbow, Asian Short Film & Video Competition, Documentary Ock Rang Award

• The 10th International Women’s Film Festival in Seoul (2008)

Apr 10, 2008 ~ Apr 18, 2008

Films Screened : 140 works from 30 countries

Festival Venues : Theater 'Yong', Artreon 1, 3, 4, 5, 6

Official Attended Guests : 42 people from 14 countries

Total Audiences : 50,000

Opening Film : The 10th Anniversary Project “Ten Ten” (Korea)

Closing Films : Highschoolgirls (PARK Ji-wan/Korea), Lioness(es) (HONG Jae-hee/Korea), The Things She Can't Avoid in the City (PARK Jee-youn/Korea), Mi-ja's Beauty Parlor (LEE Yoon-young/Korea)

Awardees : Grand Prize: Highschoolgirls (PARK Ji-wan/Korea), First Prize: Lioness(es) (HONG Jae-hee/Korea), The Things She Can\'t Avoid in the City (PARK Jee-youn/Korea), People's Choice : Mi-ja's Beauty Parlor (LEE Yoon-young/Korea), ※ Special Commendation : She Saw Spring (Ji-min/Korea), Park Namok Award: Forever the Moment (Yim Soon-rye), Documentary Ock Rang Award: Lesbian Political Challenge (tentative) (Hong Ji-yoo, Han Young-hee), Women’s News Award: Stairs of Doll (SUH Jung-min/Korea), Alice or Life in Black and White (Sophie SCHOUKENS/Belgium)

Programs : Opening Film, New currents, Queer Rainbow, Girls on Film, Asian Short Film & Video Competition, Focus on Peng Xiaolian, Open Cinema, Female Bodies: Biopolitics and Body Politics, Fantastic Women's Cinema: Women in Paraxis, Curtain Call, 97-07 Women's Cinema in Korea, Documentary Ock Rang Award, Media Workshop for Women Migrants

• The 11th International Women’s Film Festival in Seoul (2009)

Apr 9, 2009 ~ Apr 16, 2009

Films Screened : 95 works from 23 countries

Festival Venues : Artreon 1, 3, 4, 5

Official Attended Guests: 33 people from 14 countries

Total Audiences: 37,500

Opening Film: Half Life (Jennifer PHANG/USA)

Closing Films : Goodbye (SONG Fang/China), With or Without You (CHOU She-wei/Taiwan), Too Bitter to Love (Gone/Korea), Moondy (JUNG Hae-sim/Korea)

Awardees : Grand Prize: Goodbye (SONG Fang/China), First Prize: With or Without You (CHOU She-wei/Taiwan), Too Bitter to Love (Gone/Korea), People's Choice : Moondy (JUNG Hae-sim/Korea), Documentary Ock Rang Award: Red Maria (Kyung-soon), Women’s News Award: Breezy Day (JUNG Ji-won/Korea), Teen’s Movie: Rain (Maria GOVAN/Bahama), ※ Special Commendation : Sonja (Kirsi Marie LIIMATAINEN/German)

Programs : Opening Film, New Currents, Queer Rainbow: A Special Everyday Affair, Girls on Film: Girls on the Road, Open Cinema, Special Section: Women’s Labour and Poverty, On Aging, Asian Short Film & Video Competition, Media Workshop for Women Migrants: Video Daiary of Our Own, Documentary Ock Rang Award

• The 12th International Women’s Film Festival in Seoul (2010)

Apr 8, 2010 ~ Apr 15, 2010

Films Screened : 102 works from 27 countries

Festival Venues : Artreon 1, 2, 4, 5

Official Attended Guests : 25 people from 13 countries

Total Audiences : 41,654

Opening Film : The Day Will Come (Susanne SCHNEIDER/Germany, France)

Closing Films : Believe in Me (KIM Jin-young/Korea) / Vacance (BAEK Joo-eun/Korea) / Mirror & Watch (LEE Won-woo/Korea) / Are You Happy? (JUNG Hye-eun/Korea)

Awardees : Asian Short Film & Video Competition, MaryKay Grand Prize : Believe in Me (KIM Jin-young/Korea), MaryKay First Prize : Vacance (BAEK Joo-eun/Korea) / Mirror & Watch (LEE Won-woo/Korea), People's Choice : Are You Happy? (JUNG Hye-eun/Korea), Feature Film Pitch & Catch, Artreon Award : Two Weddings and a Funeral (Kim Jho Gwangsoo/Korea), Audience Award : Two Weddings and a Funeral (Kim Jho Gwangsoo/Korea), Documentary Film Pitch & Catch, Documentary Ock Rang Award : 2 Lines (GEE Min, LEE Choul/Korea), NAWFF Award: A Brand New Life (Ounie LECOMTE/Korea, France), Women's News Award: Blessed (Ana Kokkinos/Australia), Teen's Movie: Mall Girls (Kasia ROSŁANIEC/Poland), Audience Award : Am I a Loser? (KIMCHO Younghyun)

Programs : Opening Film, New Currents, Asian Spectrum: Post 98 Indonesian Women, Polemics: Maternity in Questionm, Transmediascape, Queer Rainbow: Generation to Generation, Open Cinema, Asian Short Film & Video Competition, Documentary Ock Rang Award, Media Workshop for Women Migrants: Asian Wonder Women, ACTION!, NAWFF Seoul 2010

• The 13th International Women’s Film Festival in Seoul (2011)

Apr 7, 2011 ~ Apr 14, 2011

Films Screened : 115 works from 30 countries

Festival Venues : Artreon 1, 3, 5, KOFA 2, Arthall 'BOM',

Official Attended Guests : 25 people from 10 countries

Total Audiences : 41,290

Opening Film : The Hairdresser (Doris Dörrie/Germany)

Closing Films : Confession (YU Ji-young/Korea) / City (KIM Ye-young, KIM Young-geun/Korea) / Working on Saturday (KOO Eun-ji/Korea) / Living without Men (LUO Yi/UK, China)

Awardees : Asian Short Film & Video Competition, MaryKay Grand Prize : Confession (YU Ji-young/Korea), MaryKay First Prize : City (KIM Ye-young, KIM Young-geun/Korea) / Working on Saturday (KOO Eun-ji/Korea), People's Choice : Living without Men (LUO Yi/UK, China), Pitch&Catch, Feature Film Pitch & Catch, Artreon Award : Grape Candy(KIM Heejung/Korea), Audience Award : Grape Candy(KIM Hee Jung/Korea), Documentary Film Pitch & Catch, Documentary Ock Rang Award : Wandering Stars (Lee Sukkyung/Korea), Audience Award : Nora Noh (KIM Sunghee/Korea), Teen’s Movie: Jucy (Louise ALSTON/Australia)

Programs : Opening Film, New Currents, Asian Spectrum: Chinese Women, Polemics: The Places, Ani-x: Dream, Mind and Reality in Animation, Korean Cinema Retrospective: Seoul Flâneuses, Queer Rainbow: the Q word, Open Cinema, Asian Short Film & Video Competition, Documentary Ock Rang Award, Media Workshop for Women Migrants: Salad Woman with a Camera of Hope

• The 14h International Women’s Film Festival in Seoul (2012)

Apr 19, 2012 ~ Apr 26, 2012

Films Screened : 120 works from 30 countries

Festival Venues : Artreon 1, 2, 4, 5, CGVSongpa 5, KOFA 2,

Official Attended Guests : 35 people from 12 countries

Total Audiences : 50,000

Opening Film : The Prize (Paula MARKOVITCH / Mexico, France, Poland, Germany)

Closing Films : Lights in the Dusk (YU Eun-jeong/Korea) / There Is Something in the Air(Iram GHUFRAN/India) / Kung Fu Grandma(PARK Jeong-one/UK) / Anesthesia(KIM Souk-young/Korea)

Awardees : Asian Short Film & Video Competition, MaryKay Grand Prize : Lights in the Dusk (YU Eun-jeong/Korea), MaryKay First Prize : There Is Something in the Air(Iram GHUFRAN/India) / Kung Fu Grandma(PARK Jeong-one/UK), People's Choice : Anesthesia(KIM Souk-young/Korea) (LUO Yi/UK, China), Pitch&Catch, Feature film Pitch & Catch : Artreon Award Grand You Belong Here (KANG Heayun/Korea), Seoul Women's Vision Award You Belong Here (KANG Heayun/Korea), Artreon Award prize I Can See Clearly Now (SHIN Eun-young/Korea) / Novelist of Our Times (KIM Bo-jeong/Korea), Audience Award You Belong Here (KANG Heayun/Korea), Documentary Film Pitch & Catch : Documentary Ock Rang Award The Empire of Shame (HONG Li-gyeong/Korea), Audience Award The Empire of Shame (HONG Li-gyeong/Korea), Short Animation Pitch & Catch : Kokdu Award You Were So Precious(BAEK Mi-young/Korea), I-Teens: Tomboy (Celine SCIAMMA/France), GS칼텍스상: A School that Was Learning in the Moonlight (OTA Naoko/Japan), Pink Ribbons, Inc. (Léa Pool/Canada)

Programs : Opening Film, New Currents, Asian Spectrum: Japanese Cinema 1955x20121 Eternal Breast, Polemics: Action! An Organizing Hope, Mexican Women, East Asian Cinema Retrospective: A List Women in B Movies, Queer Rainbow: From Nowhere to Everywhere, Open Cinema, Asian Short Film and Video Competition, Documentary Ock Rang Award, Multi-Culture Video Making: Slow Slow Quick Quick, A New Perspective on the Intimacy and the Relationship - Family and Community

• The 15h International Women’s Film Festival in Seoul (2013)

May 24, 2013 ~ May 30, 2013

Films Screened : 110 works from 28 countries

Festival Venues : Megabox Sinchon 3, 4, 5, 6

Official Attended Guests : 34 people from 12 countries

Total Audiences : 50,000

Opening Film : Ginger & Rosa (Sally Potter/UK)

Closing Films : Chunjung (LEE Mi-rang/Korea) / Beast Is My Middle Name (KIM Bo-ra/Korea) / She Is My Best Friend (Jirassaya WONGSUTIN/Thailand) / The Confession (KIM Bo-mi/Korea)

Awardees : Asian Short Film & Video Competition, GS Caltex Grand Prize : Chunjung (LEE Mi-rang/Korea), GS Caltex First Prize  : Beast Is My Middle Name (KIM Bo-ra/Korea), She Is My Best Friend (Jirassaya WONGSUTIN/Thailand), People's Choice : The Confession (KIM Bo-mi/Korea), Pitch&Catch, Feature Film Pitch&Catch, Megabox Award : Wildcats, Seoul Women Vision Award : A Bad Child, Audience Award  : A Bad Child, Documentary Film Picth & Catch, Ock Rang Award  : Visual Applause, Audience Award  : Visual Applause, I-Teens: * My, No-Mercy Home (Aori/Korea),

Programs : Opening Film, New Currents, Asian Spectrum: The Coming of Age in Asian Women Film making, Polemics: The Constellation of the Violence against Women, Actress, Muse with a Movie Camera, Queer Rainbow : Queer, Open Cinema, Special Screening : Technology and Gender – Virtual Present, Actual Future, NAWFF AWARD 2012, Asian Short Film & Video Competition, Documentary Ock Rang Award, Multicultural Media Academy : Talk! Talk! Wings Grow, Special Screening : Barrier Free Screening / Promise for 10 Years

• The 16th SEOUL International Women’s Film Festival (2014)

May 29, 2014 ~ June 5, 2014

Films Screened :

Festival Venues : Megabox Sinchon M, 3, 4, 5, 7

Official Attended Guests :

Total Audiences :

Opening Film : For Those Who Can Tell No Tales (Jasmila Žbanić / Bosnia-Herzegovina)

Closing Films : Niagara (HAYAKAWA Chie / Japan), MJ (KIM Hee-jin / KOREA), Midnight Sun (KANG Ji-sook / Korea), Sprout (YOON Ga-eun / Korea), Jeon Young Venus (KANG Seo-lim / Korea), Comma (Sung Na-yeon / Korea)

Awardees : Asian Short Film & Video Competition, Sungjoo Grand Prize : Niagara (HAYAKAWA Chie, Japan), Sungjoo First Prize : MJ (KIM Hee-jin, KOREA), Midnight Sun (KANG Ji-sook, Korea), People's Choice : MJ (KIM Hee-jin, KOREA), Special Mention : Sprout (YOON Ga-eun, Korea), I-Teens Award : Jeon Young Venus (KANG Seo-lim, Korea), Special Mention : Comma (Sung Na-yeon, Korea), Pitch & Catch, Feature Film, Megabox Award: Secret Palace, Audience Award: Man from Nowhere, Documentary Ock Rang Award : Holy Working Day, Starteast Digital Laboratory Award : Hey, you~, Audience Award : Hey, you~, GS Caltex Prize : Yunju KANG

Programs : Opening Film, New Currents, Asian Spectrum: Camera Is My Heart!, Polemics: To love hot or to live hard, Life In Front of the Camera : Actress in Re/Action, Kagawa Kyoko, Queer Rainbow : Allure & Lust over Phobia, Open Cinema, Asian Short Film and Video Competition, Documentary Ock Rang Award, Multicultural Media Academy: Herstories and Visions, Special Screening: The Murmuring - Resolving History While Still Breathing, Special Screening: Barrier Free Screening, Promise for 10 Years

See also

• List of festivals in South Korea
• List of festivals in Asia

External links

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• Official blog
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