Pinoy Films at Korean Film Fest
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By: Rianne Hill Soriano | YEHEY! Contributors
1 September 2008 | 8:40 AM

This year's Jecheon International Music and Film Festival (JIMFF)
exhibited a Filipino film from the Cinema One Originals, Adolf
Alix's "Tambolista" ("Drumbeat") featuring Jiro Manio, Sid Lucero,
Coco Martin, Anita Linda, Fonz Deza, Ricky Davao, and Susan Africa.
The festival ran from Aug. 14 to 19, 2008 at its cozy and scenic host
city, Jecheon, located in Chungcheongbuk province in central Korea.
Jecheon is most famous for the Cheongpung-ho (Cheongpung Lake), a
lake that captivates tourists with natural beauty that is reminiscent
of traditional Korean landscape paintings.

The "Music Shorts on Track" section of the festival also featured the
short film entitled "Three Boys" starring Marc Abaya, Ping Medina,
and Yan Yuzon. This Philippine-Hong Kong production was directed by
Leung Ming-Kai and produced by Marie Jamora.

Launched in 2005, JIMFF has become an international celebration of
film set in the beautiful landscapes of Jecheon City – with
remarkable music shared and enjoyed by people of varying musical
tastes. For this year's festival, it opened a number of theaters,
special spaces, film camera and music poster exhibits, street
performances, street mimes, dance parties, concerts, a robot-themed
park, a special moving concert on a truck, and various events for
film professionals, filmmakers, composers, and musicians all over the
world. It catered to the audience's thirst for musicals, music-
inspired features, and music documentaries.

There were various programs for cinephiles including a hand-printing
installation ceremony (an event where the hand-printed copperplate of
the awardee of last year's Jecheon Film Music Award was installed at
the fountain of the Street of Culture), the Jecheon Special Talk (a
free talk between audiences and the masters of film and film music),
and Cinema Music Live (a cine-music ensemble composed of weekend
concerts and street screenings). There were a number of musical
performances staged outdoors along the shores of Cheongpung Lake
while highlighting music films in each specialized program. The
festival also conducted the Jecheon Film Music Academy, an
educational program for young and promising filmmakers, musicians,
and composers specializing in film music. The festival also
inaugurated the international competition section "World Music Film
Today" which presented various music films all over the world. Other
sections highlighted the varying aspects of "music" cinema and the
retrospectives of musicals of yesteryears.