. The festival also announced that its Asian Contents & Film Market will operate in similar fashion to last year in a hybrid format.
The On Screen section is intended to “showcase highly anticipated drama series on OTT platforms as either world premieres or Asia premieres,” the festival said. This “precisely reflects the current state of the market, which is expanding multi-directionally, while embracing the extended flow and value of cinema.
Due to the continuing COVID-19 pandemic and severe travel restrictions in the region, Busan’s ACFM is for a second year operating as an online market. There will also be “partial onsite business meetings for [Korea-based] participants who are able to attend the Asian Project Market and the E-IP Market physically.”“Hellbound” is adapted from a webtoon in which people are suddenly told they are going to hell.
“My Name” is a female-led action noir with a story about a woman who infiltrates the police in order to investigate and avenge her father’s death. It stars Han So-hee, Park Hee-soon, Ahn Bo-hyun, Kim Sang-ho, Lee Hak-ju, and Jang Yull. “Forbidden” is pitched as an extreme horror about four friends who travel from Bangkok to a remote mountain village for the funeral of one of their group’s father. The cast is headed by one of Thailand’s rising stars, actor-singer Kritssanapoom Pibulsonggram.