Busan Market Chief Sees Virtue in Convergence, Conferences and Crossover as Film Industry Seeks Route out of Turmoil

In the job for five months, Ellen Kim, the new head of Busan’s market has started to put her imprint on the industry component of the Busan International Film Festival.

The four-day market kicks off on Saturday and is expected to welcome slightly higher numbers of executives, booths and conference speakers. Kim says that uptrend may be because of – not in spite of – the current turmoil in the entertainment industry.

The Market’s novelty this year is the Producers’ Hub. What is that about?

At Cannes this year the Korean Film Council (Kofic) operated KoPick and took five producers to the festival. Lee Dong-ha, president

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