Korean Film Council Launches Filmmakers Development Lab

Korean Film Council (KOFIC), based in Seoul, Korea with a satellite office in Los Angeles, is launching a new Filmmakers Development Lab to nurture and encourage emerging Korean American filmmakers to bring their stories to the screen. Inspired by similar creative environments such as the Sundance Screenwriters Lab, the KOFIC Filmmakers Develo0pment Lab is seeking applicants from the U.S. and Canada with a view to realizing projects that can find audience appeal in both Korea and North America. The Lab will be held in Hawaii in early September, in partnership with the Academy for Creative Media at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu. In October, the Lab fellows will be brought to the Pusan International Film Festival in Korea to meet with relevant film industry representatives and organizations that could potentially produce their projects. Selected participants will be paired with industry mentors from both Korea and the U.S., in an intensive week-long retreat. The goal is to enable participants to develop a high quality script that could be presented to financiers and production companies in both countries. For info, visit: www.koreanfilm.or.kr and www.hawai.edu/acm. Submission Deadline is May 31st.