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February 14, 2006
Quota quotable: Park Chan-wook protests
"South Korean director Park Chan-wook staged a one-man demonstration in front of the Berlin Film Festival's entrance for an hour on Tuesday to protest against moves to cut the Korean film quota in his country," Reuters reports. "Park, a top filmmaker who won an award at the Cannes Film Festival in 2004 for Old Boy, held an English-language poster that read "Korean Films Are in Danger" and "No Screen Quota = No Old Boy" as he stood calmly in front of the Berlinale Palast. Outnumbered by more than 20 journalists and photographers, Park, 42, politely answered questions and posed for pictures with his sign at the Marlene-Dietrich-Platz square. "The Korean government is planning to cut the quota for Korean films in half and I don't like that," he said through a translator. "I'm protesting the changes in the quota. It will be very bad for the Korean film industry and all the filmmakers are coming together to stop it." [More at link.]
Posted by pride at February 14, 2006 11:40 AM
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