Jeonju IFF unveiled its line-up for Jeonju Cinema Project 2015

- Kim Heejung, Lee Hyunjung, Benjamin Naishtat selected for this year.

- Focus on the change of the title, the female directors, network in Jeonju,

and discovering new talents.

Jeonju Cinema Project (JCP), formerly named Jeonju Digital Project, is not only core program of JIFF, but also extension of festival spirit and alternative filmmaking experiment. JCP is film project co-produced and distributed worldwide by Jeonju IFF. The project has collaborated with the most talented and critically acclaimed 45 filmmakers over a decade and expanded its scale from shorts to feature-length in 2014. In 2015, with its new name, Jeonju Cinema Project presents its 2nd feature projects of new blood - KIM Hee jeong, LEE Hyun-jung and Benjamin NAISHTAT.

It is notable that the title of the project has been changed from ´Jeonju Digital Project (JDP)´ to ´Jeonju Cinema Project (JCP)´. Regarding this change, the utive programmer Kim Youngjin noted, “The film industry already changed into the digital base years ago. We have decided to embrace the main point, renovation, which the project has accumulated for 15 years, but eliminate ‘digital’, the outdated conception. We will focus on the future of JCP 2015, as it is centered from ‘digital’ to ‘Jeonju’ and ‘cinema’.

In the several aspects of the chosen films, it is significant that JIFF selects two female Korean directors to support relatively-underestimated talents. On the basis of these keynotes, JIFF will make a full investment in the two Korean films and covers 70% of Benjamin Naishtat’s production cost.

The directors’ career demonstrates the vision of JCP 2015. Kim Heejung made her debut with Girl Thirteen chosen in the ‘The Residence in Paris’, the promoting program of Cannes Film Festival. Snow Paths will be the third work since the second film Grape Candy released in 2011. It is the second time for Lee Hyunjung and Benjamin Naishtat with Jeonju international film festival through JCP 2015. Lee Hyunjung’s Echo of Dragon was invited to the Korean Competition of the 14th JIFF and Benjamin Naishtat’s History of Fear won the grand prize of the International Competition at the 15th Jiff.

Each project reflects the directors’ character and insight very clearly. Firstly, Snow Paths is the story about the relationship between a man who takes a rest in the mountain to recover from his alcoholism and a nun who encountered him by chance. Two characters’ strong bond implies the main theme, ‘salvation and anguish’ and will deliver mysterious plot points. Secondly, Samnye Parallax is a story of a first-time film director who satisfies his thirst and sense of emptiness from a mysterious girl that he accidentally met in Samnye. Lastly, El Movimiento is expected to be the experimental film shot in black and white and will show the apocalyptic era where violence is strongly combined with fear and authority, which is based on the history of Argentina.

The 16th JIFF will systematically reinforce the production system and distribution as they appoint Song Hyun-yeong as an utive producer of JCP 2015 in order to build up the specialty and security of production after changing into feature-length project. Song Hyun-yeong is a seasoned producer who knows the balance of system between independent film and commercial film through the experience of producing Failan, The way home, Reason to live, A fresh start, 10 minutes and End of winter.

After the conference, the three projects are going to start shooting at the end of Jan and finish it by the end of Feb. The projects are expected to have the world premiere at the 16th JIFF held from the 30th of April to the 9th of May.