Halloween Costume Contest

UPDATED Update!

 Voting will begin on Wednesday, October 31st at 12:01 am 10 AM. All photos from the cameras at B-Side and Ol' 55 are online. However, it seems there was some sort of problem with the B-side camera and there are about 8 5 pix are still AWOL. The people who are missing have been emailed and we want to give them a chance to re-submit their photos to be included in the contest. If we hear back from everyone tonight, we'll start the judging.

Voting will close Sunday, November 4th at about 6:00 pm.  If your pict­ure isn't shown, you have until 9:00 am to submit it to ­[email protected]Full contest rules on prizes and voting are online as well. Good luck to all contestants and a reminder to register on this page in order to be able to cast your vote if you haven't already!

We are also accepting general photos to add to the Pusanweb Halloween Photo Archives (which will be started in the morning). If you have pix already online, send a link (or if your pix are on Facebook, add them to the Pusanweb Group
and we'll get them public) or email the pictures directly.

 
ORIGINAL Announcement­ 

It's coming!

Due to a few problems with logistics, the costume contest voting has been slightly delayed. We will have the pictures up online late Tuesday/early Wednesday, and all you'll have to do is log in, choose your favorite picture, and click to vote! Easy as that.

In order to vote for your favorite costume, you'll need to create a Pusanweb account (this is separate from classifieds and forums). Create an account now to save yourself some time later. Registration email addresses will be reviewed to prevent ballot-stuffing.

The Pweb management team will be announcing the winners of the contest Sunday night at 7:30(ish) at Vinyl Underground before the regular Vinyl Trivia Night and contest winners not present will be contacted either Sunday night or Monday morning with details on how to claim their prizes.

If you were at one of the participating bars Saturday night (Moe's, Crossroads, B-Side, Soul Trane, Vinyl Underground or Ol' 55) and didn't get your costume registered, send us a picture and we'll enter it into the contest. Email [email protected].

So, get your account and your voting finger ready!

Pusanweb Halloween Party

PIFF Submissions

FINAL UPDATE

By most accounts, PIFF was a success, although not without it's problems. For next year, we hope to increase our coverage of the event with more submissions, more media types and more hype. Pusanweb thanks everyone who took the time to share their cinematic experiences and hope you all come back next year.

And now for the final updates:

The Left Flank wraps things up with Cute Face, Blank Eyes and Search for the (South) Korean Eldorado

The Lonely Planet adds his final notes in his review of Fados and Ezra.

If you have content you'd like to add to Pweb's PIFF, it's not too late! Directions on how to add your own content is a bit further down the page. Scroll and submit. Thanks again to everyone who posted, and visit them often. They don't just write well about cinema.

TUESDAY UPDATE

Before getting into the blog round-up, it was pointed out that I stupidly forgot to post the actual link to the PIFF website. (slapping forehead!). So, far too late for this year, here's the link: www.piff.org 

And on to the round-up: 

The Lonely Planet blogger is back with more from PIFF. Check out his reviews of the documentaries Full Metal Village and Cocalero and The Ferryman, a movie that was, in the words of the blogger: "tedious, grating, cliched, unbelievable, horribly acted, cheesily lighted, and about 95 minutes too long, clocking it at 97." I guess you win some, you lose some.

The Left Flank blogger posted A Light from the Gate, a review of the popular Korean film, Secret Sunshine.

We have a new voice chiming in on Pusanweb. User seeplecash reviews Control, the movie about Ian Curtis, lead singer of the British post-punk band Joy Division.

Busan Mike blogs about his experience at one of the outdoor films that happen nightly at the Busan Yacht Club.   

In snooping around the blogosphere, I found the blog, The East Windup Chronicle. The blogger wrote a preview of the festival, The Pusan International Film Festival–Asia’s Finest Film Fest Kicks off Oct. 4 (wish I had found it earlier!) and an update: PIFF’s Patience Paying Dividends for New Asian Cinema

The RiskyBusinessBlog has a section dedicated to PIFF which has entries that focus more on the atmosphere than the films. A decent read.

And finally, pix from some of the ladies that graced the red carpet, check out this post from RUKorean.

Got more links? Got something to say? Let us know!


WEEKEND UPDATE

Sunday is usually the busiest day for PIFF and the most difficult to buy tickets for. Some people got lucky, others didn't. If you saw something on Sunday (or Saturday, or Friday!) let us know. Scroll down the page for the "how to".

PIFF Update from Homely Planet

TRIBES
The Philippines, 2007

Tribes is my second movie at this year's PIFF, and also a movie concerning itself with youth gangs (I was supposed to see Ken Loach's new one last night, but this flu/strep throat nastiness put me down for the count, so the tickets went unused...).  But unlike the super-stylized and downright silly CROWS - Episode 0, this one's actually good.
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Thy Sin is Self Indulgence

Everything I said last night about was reinforced today. And, I have a name for my problem with the long form movie: self-indulgence.

It's not as if, as a blogger, I don't know about granting myself liberties. doesn't have an 800-word limit per post rule. But then, I don't go around whoring for money for my projects. And, judging by my stats counter, many readers have decided to take my advice pre-emptively, and have decided not to access my blog before we disagree about everything. Once in a while, I wonder how to make this blog better, yet few set me straight. Perhaps, directors have the same problem. Lack of, or incompetence in, editing is the serial crime most directors commit in the filmsfeatured at PIFF.

FRIDAY UPDATE 

We are now into day 3 of PIFF, and the second full day of films (the opening day only shows the opening film). Bloggers from The Left Flank and from Homely Planet  have started blogging the festival. Here's what they sent on to Pweb. Also, if you're blogging PIFF, let us know and we'll put the word out.

From the Left Flank:
The Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF) lost its cineaste’s novelty in April, when BUDi fought and nearly won my affections. BUDi, or the Busan Universiade for Digital Content, is for the short film format what PIFF is for the long form, the conventional (dare I say, classic 120-minute format). Like the LP, I fear PIFF is at a disadvantage in the age of attention deficit disorder and IPODs. So, I started slow this 12th iteration of the venerable autumn convocation for camera-empowered artists in all phases of self-expression, from pic snappers to the silent news crews, the flash-resistant stars and their directors, and finally to the producers and scriptwriters dreaming of the limelight. I picked a selection composed of four short segments, In Our Time,  by four different Taiwanese (or is that the Chinese Taipei contingent?) directors.
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 From Homely Planet:
It's that time a year once again, kiddies. The Pusan International Film Festival is underway, and during the next week I'll be catching screenings during any available downtime and posting short reviews here and over at http://www.pusanweb.com.

I missed the opening last night - a Chinese war epic called Assembly - due to a nasty flu that has descended upon me, sapped me of all my energy, and shat in my joints.  I feel like refried camel dung, but that hasn't stopped me from already taking in one film this morning.  Here are my thoughts.
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Pusanweb - The Hub of PIFF 2007

Welcome to Pusanweb PIFF Central, your hub for the 12th Annual  Pusan International Film Festival, 2007.

The festival kicks off today, Thursday, October 4 with the opening show, The Assembly, a Chinese film about the battle of Huai-hai, and closes on Friday, October 12 with the Japanese animation Evangelion 1.0: You are (Not) Alone

 The 7 days in between opening and closing encompass 275 films from 64 countries, including 193 international premieres.

Pusanweb would like to give everyone an opportunity to share your PIFF experiences. We are accepting submissions for reviews, blog-like postings, comments and commentary, pictures, video and anything else you feel you want to contribute.

We will be updating the front page at the end of each day of PIFF to reflect new submissions and also will be scheduling webcasts/podcasts throughout the week (schedule TBA).

 To submit a review or a blog entry, first you need to log in to  Pusanweb (left side of the screen). If you don't have a Pusanweb ID, you'll need to create one (this is separate from the forums and classifieds IDs).  Once you're logged in, click on Create Content on the left side of the screen and select "PIFF Submission". Type up your submission and click "Submit" and you'll be all set.

If you'd prefer us to put your content up for you, send it via email to [email protected]  or click on the "Contact Us" link at the top of the page. Also, if you have pictures or video you'd like to share of PIFF events, let us know.

 For non-text formats (video, audio, photo), stay tuned to this space for details on how to upload (probably up Friday night).

 Enjoy the show!

Pweb This Week


A couple more blogs have been added to the Pweb Blog roll. If you haven't already, visit our Blog list and check out Max Watson's Asian Adventures and Busan Mike / 부산 마이크's blogs. Of course, let us know about your blog and we'll happily add it to the list.

Also back after a rather long hiatus is Pusan Poetry Plus. Seven and a half years, and still happening (albeit irregularly) Pusan Poetry Plus has been a great event to read poetry, strum a guitar, juggle or show your talent off to an audience of appreciative folk. PP+ #37 kicks off Saturday at around 8:30 pm. Click on the link for all the details and for an email address on how to sign up. Also, check out the Pweb video archives for our old PP+ content.

Finally, From the 7th to the 9th is the Haeundae Beach International Surfing Festival. Lots more details by clicking on the link.

There are lots more things happening around town this month. Visit the Calendar for more details and more stuff to do.


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