Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefThe Asian Contents and Film Market, the industry component of the Busan International Film Festival, is to launch an in-person story market at this year’s event.The ACFM has for ten years operated what it called an Entertainment Intellectual Property Market.
But where the E-IP Market has been a one-way pitching event, the new Busan Story Market is conceived as something functionally closer to a conventional rights market, with buyers and sellers meeting at sales booths, but trading books, webtoons, web novels, games, and stories.The Busan Story Market is an outgrowth of the E-IP event and will operate in addition to the continuing pitching sessions.
It will run Oct. 8-11, 2022, at the Busan Exhibition and Convention Center (BEXCO). The ACFM will also operate other recurring industry support strands, including the Asian Project Market (Oct.
9-11), Platform Busan (a platform that expands the production environment by establishing a network for film professionals (Oct.
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