While film adaption of webtoon or graphic novel is common, the other way around is not. GIFF invites Mr. O Muel, director of the film, Jiseul and Ms. Keum Suk Gendry-Kim, the writer of its original graphic novel, to see how the two genres similarly yet differently depict the same historical event.

• Time : Thu. Nov 5, 2020 / 14:00
• Panels : O Muel (Director), Keum Suk Gendry-Kim (Graphic novelist)
• Host : Jin CHO (Programmer, GIFF)

CHUNG Chong-hwa, writer of History of Contemporary Korean Cinema (2019), and Han Sang-Eon, senior researcher at Korean Federation of Film Archives and CEO of Han Sang-Eon Cinema Research Institution, will have an in-depth discussion about Joseon cinema. They will review its birth and struggle for survival, cultural changes and industrialization.

• Time : Fri. Nov 6, 2020 / 19:00
• Panels : CHUNG Chong-hwa (Senior Researcher, KOFA), Han Sang-Eon (CEO, Han Sang-Eon Cinema Research Institution)
• Host : KIM Hong-joon (Artistic Director, GIFF)

Many writers still get inspiration from Geumo Sinhwa (the first novel written in Chinese characters by a Korean author KIM Si-seup), Hong Gildong jeon (the first Korean novel written in Hangeul), and the city of Gangneung – home to prominent writers of Joseon Dynasty such as HEO Nanseolheon and SIN Saimdang. YUN Hu-myong who has written over ten stories using his hometown Gangneung as a motif and SEO Yeong-eun, a prominent writer born and raised in Gangneung, will have a candid talk about their life as writers under the theme “Literature, Cinema, Gangneung and Love.”

• Time : Sat. Nov 7, 2020 / 19:00
• Panels: YUN Hu-myong (Novelist), SEO Yeong-eun (Novelist)
• Host : KIM Hong-joon (Artistic Director, GIFF)