The Bucheon International Animation Festival this year will be the largest scale since its launch, as it aims to become one of the top in Asia, the organizing committee said Wednesday.
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Since its launch in 1999, the annual international animation festival in the South Korean city of Bucheon has presented a number of high-quality animated films. During its 16th run in 2015, the global event changed its name from the Puchon International Student Animation Festival, opening the event to professionals as well.
“We are pushing our way to become Asia’s top international animation film festival, to stand on par with the world’s big-four players,” Jang Dong-yeol, the head of the BIAF organizing committee, told Yonhap at a press conference in central Seoul.
The big four in world animation awards are the Ottawa International Animation Festival of Canada, the Zagreb International Animation Festival of Ukraine, the Annecy International Animated Film Festival of France and the Hiroshima International Animation Festival of Japan. Only those four are officially approved by the International Animated Film Association, the animated film arm of UNESCO.
“You will be surprised at the quality of the student work competing in the BIAF — they never underplay those by adults,” Jang added.
The media event was organized to promote this year’s BIAF, which will be held from Oct. 21 to 25 in seven cinemas, museums and exhibition halls in Bucheon, Gyeonggi Province.
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