DMZ International Documentary Film Festival

DMZ Docs X GFSA X THE KOREAN ASSOCIATION OF LITERATURE AND FILM

This year, DMZ Docs joins with GFSA, the Gyeonggi Film School Association comprised of 9 film schools and 4 arts high school in Gyeonggi-do, and the Korean Association of Literature and Film for a series of lecture programs. By establishing the foundation for the field of documentary in geographical, cultural, and industrial aspects, the program aims to expand the documentary audience and invigorate the documentary production of the younger generation.

Joint Program with GFSA

GFSA Student Jury

19 GFSA Student Juries comprised of 16 film school students and 3 high school students will select a work from this year’s Asian Competition. The selected will receive the Next Award and a cash prize of 3,000,000 KRW.

Kim Yun Kyung

Kyoung Hee University
Kim Ji Won

Kyoung Hee University
Kim Ji Hye

Daejin University
Kim Bo Yong

Daejin University
Son Hee Jung

Dong-Ah Insitute Of Media And Arts
Choi Bo Myoung

Dong-Ah Insitute Of Media And Arts
Oh Hye Seung

Myoungji University
You I Su

Myoungji University
Lim Ta Gyu

Seoul Institute
Lim Yujin

Seoul Institute Of The Arts
Kim Da Ye

Sungkyul University
Choi Han Sol

Sungkyul University
Lee Lin Ho

The University of Suwon
Jeong Ka Hyeon

The University of Suwon
Yoon Chae Wan

Yong In University
Kim Gyung Jin

Yong In University
Song Ki Cha

Gyeonggi Arts High School
Park Yu Bin

Kaywon High School of Arts
Lee Hyun Hwa

Korea Animation High School

GFSA Faculty Forum

For this forum, GFSA film educators will gather for presentations and round tables to discuss how documentary production education is done in the field and envision what is can create. The forum is open to all, including the filmmakers, students, festival visitors, and the public.

Documentary-making Education: become a documentary director, not a YouTuber
Host	Ryoo Hoon (Professor, Sungkyul University)
Speakers	Jisu Klaire Yoo (Professor, Yong-in University) - To where should the documentary camera aim towards in the world of selfies and web-cams? Park Sungmin (Teacher, Korea Animation High School) - Why would students make documentaries? Kim Kibong (Media education planner) - Three contexts of documentary education-how could that have happened?
Date	Sep 20 (SUN) 14:00 - 17:00
Venue	DMZ Hall (Bella Citta B1, Salon Bella Citta)

Joint Program with The Korean Association of Literature and Film

The joint academic conference held with the Korean Association of Literature and Film asks questions about documentaries as a tool to represent reality in this challenging time of post-media, post-corona, and post-truth. In a new normal society characterized by its hyper-connectivity and loose solidarity, we aim to diagnose the reality of documentary production and its acceptance of reality.

DMZ Docs Academy Forum “Post-media Era: Don’t Stop the Camera”

The world is evolving from the existing values, ethical standards, institutions, and manners in this era of post-media and new contact-free world. It explores the current meaning of documentary as a medium in a time that everything is being overturned

Documentary industry and platform in times of COVID-19
Date	Sep 19 (SAT) 13:00-17:00
Venue	DMZ Hall (Bella Citta B1, Salon Bella Citta)
Host	Jeong Minah (Professor, Sungkyul University)
Speakers	Lee Taek-gwang (Professor, Kyunghee University) - New normal platform and documentary industry in PostCorona Era Kwon Soojin (Media artist) - Post-Corona production: the time-adequate strategy of media archive, documentary, and arts
Discussion	Jo Jihoon (Programmer, Muju Film Festival) , Jungsuh Sue Lim (Performance video artist)
Session 2: Documentary representation in the era of post-truth
Host	Nam Soo-young (Professor, K-Arts)
Speakers	Shim Hyowon (Lecturer, Kookmin University) - Case analysis of documentaries visualizing the global crisis: centered around the concept of invisibility and the Anthropocene Lee Nara (Research Professor, DEU Cinema & Transmedia Institute) - From infection documentary to infection of documentary: camera that confines, camera that connects
Discussion	Lee Changmin (Lecturer, K-Arts), Kang Kyoung-lae (Professor, SEOULTECH)

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