Chapman University\u2019s Dodge College of Film and Media Arts, recognized as one of the premiere film schools in the United States, in continued partnership with South Korea\u2019s Busan International Film Festival (BIFF), Asia\u2019s largest film festival, today revealed the official program for the upcoming Busan West Film Festival March 8-10.<\/p>\n
KIM JEE-WOON AND ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER TO OPEN 2013 BUSAN WEST FILM FESTIVAL AT CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY\u2019S DODGE COLLEGE OF FILM AND MEDIA ARTS<\/b><\/p>\n
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Official Festival Lineup Revealed: Highlights include a short film program and a Martial Arts Cinema panel. <\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
Orange, CA (February 20, 2013)<\/b> – Chapman University\u2019s Dodge College of Film and Media Arts, recognized as one of the premiere film schools in the United States, in continued partnership with South Korea\u2019s Busan International Film Festival (BIFF), Asia\u2019s largest film festival, today revealed the official program for the upcoming Busan West Film Festival March 8-10.<\/p>\n
Award-winning writer\/director Kim Jee-woon and Hollywood icon Arnold Schwarzenegger, along with screenwriter and Dodge College alumnus Andy Knauer (MFA\/Screenwriting\u201906), will open the Festival with a special presentation of their recent collaboration \u201cThe Last Stand\u201d at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, March 8 at Marion Knott Studios on Chapman University\u2019s campus in Orange. Kim Jee-woon will be honored with a special icon award and participate in a moderated discussion with Schwarzenegger.<\/p>\n
The Busan West lineup will feature acclaimed films from five countries: China, Korea, Taiwan, Singapore and the U.S.<\/p>\n
New to the festival this year is a competition for short films.\u00a0 Twenty short films are scheduled to screen during the festival and awards will be presented at the festival\u2019s Closing Night reception, March 10. The two winning short films will be programmed at the 2013 Busan International Film Festival in October.<\/p>\n
The official Busan West 2013 lineup is comprised of the following films:<\/b><\/p>\n
\u25ba A WEREWOLF BOY (Country: Korea \/ Director: Sung-Hee Jo)<\/p>\n
\u25ba BEIJING FLICKERS (Country: China \/ Director: Yuan Zhang)<\/p>\n
\u25ba BLEAK NIGHT (Country: Korea \/ Director: Yoon Sung-Hyun)<\/p>\n
\u25ba DANGEROUS LIAISONS (Country: China\/Korea\/Singapore \/ Director: Jin-ho Hur)<\/p>\n
\u25ba FIVE FINGERS OF DEATH (Country: Hong Kong \/ Director: Chang-wha Chung)<\/p>\n
\u25ba GIRLFRIEND BOYFRIEND GF*BF (Country: Taiwan \/ Ya-che Yang)<\/p>\n
\u25ba IRON MONKEY (Country: China \/ Director: Woo-ping Yuen)<\/p>\n
\u25ba THE SWORD IDENTITY (Country: China \/ Director: Haofeng Xu)<\/p>\n
\u25ba ONCE UPON A TIME IN CHINA (Country: China \/ Director: Hark Tsui)<\/p>\n
\u25ba TALE OF TWO SISTERS (Country: USA \/ Director: Adam Rifkin)<\/p>\n
\u25ba THE GOOD, THE BAD, THE WEIRD (Country: Korea \/ Director: Kim Jee-woon)<\/p>\n
\u25ba THE LAST STAND (Country: USA \/ Director: Kim Jee-woon)<\/p>\n
Busan West presents a unique filmmaker showcase that brings select notable Asian films and filmmakers to the U.S. to create a new and unique platform for heightened recognition outside of Asia.<\/p>\n
Over the course of three days, the public is invited to experience a showcase of contemporary and classic Asian films, many selected from the Busan International Film Festival by Dodge College Professor Nam Lee, an expert in Pan-Asian film. The 2013 Busan West program features a special opening night event honoring director Kim Jee-woon as the Icon Award recipient and a martial arts cinema panel (Sunday, March 10) which will include renowned martial arts writer\/director Haofeng Xu (The Grandmaster, The Sword Identity<\/i>).<\/p>\n
The event marks the third venture between Chapman University\u2019s Dodge College of Film and Media Arts and South Korea\u2019s Busan International Film Festival to introduce the culture, look and feel of Asia\u2019s largest film festival to an American audience and celebrate the vibrant and emerging Korean and Pan-Asian cinema.<\/p>\n
Previous editions of the Festival have attracted some of Korea\u2019s most renowned filmmakers including celebrated writer\/director Bong Joon-ho (Mother<\/i>, Memories of Murder<\/i>, The Host<\/i>), award-winning writer\/director Park Chan-wook (Thirst<\/i> director’s cut), writer\/director Kim Jee-woon (The Good, the Bad, the Weird<\/i>), director Lee Doo-yong (Last Witness<\/i>), Oh Jeom-kyun (Viva, Love<\/i>), Park Jin-sung (Evil Spirit: VIY<\/i>), director Kim Dong-won (\u201cDrifting Away\u201d) and writer\/director Kim Young-nam (Don’t Look Back<\/i>).<\/p>\n
For more information on the event and to purchase tickets please visit www.busanwest.com.<\/p>\n
About Chapman University:<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n Consistently ranked among the top universities in the West, Chapman University attracts highly qualified students from around the globe. Its programs are designed to encourage leadership in innovation, creativity and collaboration, and are increasingly recognized for providing an extraordinary educational experience. The university excels in film and media arts, performing arts, educational studies, economics and business, law, humanities and the sciences. Student enrollment in graduate and undergraduate programs is approaching 7,000, and Chapman University alumni are found throughout California and the world.<\/p>\n Lawrence and Kristina Dodge College of Film and Media Arts:<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n One of the premier film schools in the country, Dodge College of Film and Media Arts offers students the unique opportunity to learn filmmaking in a hands-on environment modeled on a working studio.\u00a0 The college is comprised of the Sodaro-Pankey Undergraduate School of Film and Media Arts, offering degrees in film production<\/a>, film studies<\/a>, screenwriting<\/a>, creative producing<\/a>,\u00a0television and broadcast journalism<\/a>, public relations and advertising<\/a>, screen acting<\/a> and digital arts<\/a>; and the graduate Conservatory of Motion Pictures, offering M.F.A. degrees<\/a> in film production<\/a>, film and television producing<\/a>, production design<\/a>, and screenwriting<\/a>, and an M.A. in film studies<\/a>. Two joint M.F.A. degrees in producing are also offered in conjunction with the business (M.F.A.\/M.B.A.<\/a>) and law (M.F.A.\/J.D.<\/a>) schools. Dodge College is housed in Marion Knott Studios, a state-of-the-art, 76,000-square-foot studio and classroom building that provides students with 24-hour access to sound stages, edit bays, Dolby surround mixing, a motion capture stage and more.\u00a0 With an Oscar and Emmy-award winning full-time faculty that boasts more feature film credits than any other film school, Dodge College is where students learn the entertainment business from the inside out.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Woon And Arnold Schwarzenegger To Open 2013 Busan West Film Festival<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":19923,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[142,151],"class_list":["post-3439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-releases","tag-film-festival","tag-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/dodge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/dodge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/dodge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/dodge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/dodge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/dodge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/dodge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/dodge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/dodge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/dodge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}