-The Biggest Youth Film Festival in Korea-

Since 1999, The Seoul International Youth Film Festival has provided a venue for youths to share their culture via films and media education. It grows truly into an international youth film festival for youngsters from domestic and abroad.

Marking the 11th anniversary in 2009, The festival aims to promote the broader exchanges with gifted youths and establishes a network to improve their competitive edge in the relevant fields. To this end, the SIYFF develops the way for the young to access to the mature media culture.

The SIYFF introduces international films of youths, as exploring budding works writer-director’s.

Along with this, it presents youth with youth-made films and distributes them overseas so that global film audiences could watch them.

The SIYFF provides great programs: screening of films about family and inner maturity of children, short films made by teenagers, the camp, media forums and a street festival. We are confident that our efforts have led the talented to nurtured in the film industry.

Screening Times:

Friday, July 10, 2009
& Sunday, July 12, 2009
1:00pm
SEOUL CINEMA 10
Jongno-gu, Gwansu-dong, 59-7
Seoul, South Korea

http://www.siyff.com/

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/art/2009/06/141_6625.html

Here is an update on all-things August!

“AUGUST” screened 2 weeks ago at the 38th Giffoni Film Festival in Giffoni, Italy, and I had the pleasure to attend. Giffoni is a festival for kids, and there were over 300 teenagers at the screening, and afterwards, several had great and meaningful comments. Check out pictures in the Image Gallery.

Last weekend, we had a record four screenings across the west in California, Texas and Idaho. And at the Bayou City International Film Festival in Houston, “AUGUST” took home the Best Student Short Award!

Upcoming in September are the Schweitzer Lakedance International Film Festival in Idaho and the Southern Winds Film Festival in Oklahoma, and in December, a screening in New York at the NewFilmmakers Fall Screening Series. “AUGUST” is up for the Best Short Narrative and A Seriously Good Movie Awards at the Southern Winds Film Festival.

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Thanks for the support and for those who made it out for the screenings!

“Of all the festivals, the Giffoni Film Festival is the most necessary one.” This is the final sentence of a letter signed by François Truffaut which has become an important heritage with reference to his visit to the GFF in 1982.

ALSO, “August” will show at the annual USC First Look 2.0 Film Festival on Sunday March 30th at 2:00pm. The screening is free, please RSVP to guarantee seating.
Free food and drink.

Eileen Norris Theatre
Adjacent to the Southeast corner of Cinema Complex
USC School of Cinematic Arts
850 West 34th St.
Los Angeles, CA 90007

Free Admission.
Doors open at 7:30 pm.
Screening begins at 8 pm.
Drink reception after the show.