User:Gong Ju-young/Seoul Independent Film Festival

Seoul Independent Film Festival(서울獨立映畵祭, 서울독립영화제, SIFF) is an independent film festival in Republic of Korea. Every winter, this festival is held in Seoul.

This film festival hosted by Korean Film Council was started as Korean Youth Film Festival in 1975. Festival's name had changed to Film Festival of Golden Crown Awards in 1989. It became a Short Film Festival of Golden Crown Awards in 1994, then changed its name to Korean Youth Short Film Awards in 1998. In 1999, it was transformed into Independent Film Festival Competition, Korean Independent Short Film Festival, after Korean Film Council was established. From 2002, Korean Independent Film Association cosponsored this festival and the film festival's name was changed to Seoul Independent Film Festival. Korean Independent Film Council has organized this film festival from 2010.

Organization

 * Host : Korean Independent Film Council
 * supervision : An executive committee of Seoul Independent Film Festival

Purpose

 * It assesses independent films made during a year and suggests a new vision.
 * It induces qualitative improvement of independent films.
 * It attempts to meet with audience actively.
 * It arranges a place that encourage new attempt and challenge of independent film.
 * It inspires creative consciousness introducing foreign independent film.

Character

 * It is competition film festival for all genres of Korean independent films. It invites public participation and presents awards without distinction of genre or time.
 * Also it announces diverse experiences of independent films through the separate invitation section.

Program
screening program of Seoul independent film festival is composed of three parts that are domestic competitive section, domestic invitation of the section and foreign invitation of the section. Each section is composed of a full-length film or a short film by standard of 1hour.


 * Domestic part in the competition : It is a work that selected by the preliminaries commission through contest.
 * Domestic part in the invitation : It is a Korean work that planned and invited by Seoul Independent Film Festival.
 * Foreign part in the invitation : It is a Foreign work that planned and invited by Seoul Independent Film Festival.

Main Prize

 * Grand prize: Select to Grand prize work in competition and award cash prize, plaque.
 * Best picture award : Select to Grand prize work in competition and award cash prize, plaque.
 * Excellent picture award : Select to superb work in competition and award cash prize, plaque.
 * Independent star award : Select to two parts, actors and staffs, in competition and award cash prize, plaque.

Special Prize

 * Audience award : Present it a work that receive favorable comment by audience's vote and award cash prize, plaque.
 * Self-righteous man award : Select by Korean Independent Film Association's operating committee and award cash prize, plaque.

Distribution of work

 * Circular screening(indie picnic) : Prize-winning works and showing works are screened at tour showing with Seoul Independent Film Festival's local network.
 * Online screening : Prize-winning works and showing works are screened at online showing, planned by Seoul Independent Film Festival.
 * DVD release : A work who selected from prize-winnig works and showing works will sale planning DVD.

reference: Busan International Film Festival