{"id":5246,"date":"2026-08-14T05:36:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T05:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=5246"},"modified":"2026-08-14T05:36:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T05:36:02","slug":"busan-film-festival-to-honor-its-founder-kim-dong-ho-with-korean-cinema-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=5246","title":{"rendered":"Busan Film Festival to Honor Its Founder Kim Dong-ho with Korean Cinema Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n\tFor this year\u2019s Korean Cinema Award, the Busan International Film Festival will be honoring one of its own \u2014 the event\u2019s founding OG, in fact.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=5244\">\u2018American Horror Story\u2019 Season 13: Everything We Know<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\tKim Dong-ho, who established BIFF in 1996 and ran the event for its first 14 years, will receive the prize at the festival\u2019s opening ceremony on Oct. 6. The award goes annually to figures who have advanced Korean cinema\u2019s standing in the world \u2014 and few, perhaps, are as worthy as the founder of the festival himself.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tWhen BIFF launched in 1996, Korean films were still routinely submitted to government censors for pre-screening before public exhibition. Kim refused to put the festival\u2019s program through that process, a stand that established BIFF\u2019s independence, won the trust of filmmakers across the region and helped turn a first-year event in a Korean port city into the leading cinema showcase in Asia. The festival became the meeting ground and incubator for\u00a0the Korean directors who would sweep the world in the early and mid-2000s, contributing significantly to the broader Korean cultural wave that continues today. <\/p>\n<p>\n\tKim brought a rare but essential combination of skills to BIFF\u2019s early days \u2014 a bureaucrat\u2019s background but a cinephile\u2019s instincts. He spent roughly three decades at what is now South Korea\u2019s Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, rising to vice minister. He also served as president of the state film body now known as the Korean Film Council, as well as founding president of the Seoul Arts Center. After stepping down as festival director in 2010, he stayed in the field as dean of Dankook University\u2019s Graduate School of Cinematic Content, chairman of the Presidential Committee for Cultural Enrichment and, later, chairman of BIFF. He has sat on festival juries at Cannes \u2014\u00a0where he presided over the Un Certain Regard section \u2014\u00a0Rotterdam and Fukuoka.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAt age 85, Kim, quite improbably, began work on his first feature. His full-length directorial debut, the documentary <em>Mr. Kim Goes to the Cinema<\/em>, premiered as a special screening at BIFF\u2019s 30th edition last year and opened in Korean theaters in February, when he was 88. Shot as the pandemic emptied theaters worldwide, the film follows him around the globe in conversation with filmmaker friends, including Bong Joon Ho, Park Chan-wook, Lee Chang-dong, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Tang Wei, Luc Besson and the Dardenne brothers about what purpose cinema now serves. He had previously directed a 2013 short, <em>Jury<\/em>, and was himself the subject of <em>Walking in the Movies<\/em>, a 2024 documentary that played Cannes Classics.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=5242\">Jenna Ortega\u2019s Sister Reacts to Public Discourse Over \u2018Wednesday\u2019 Star\u2019s Appearance<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cI feel deeply moved and humbled to be recognized by the very festival I helped establish and served for over 15 years,\u201d Kim said in a statement released Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe 31st Busan International Film Festival runs Oct. 6-15. 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