Film Programme
One Summer Night
One Summer Night is a misnomer there is actually four Summer Nights. They are all set on the shores of the Cheongpung lake in front of a massive screen and stage designed to make the best out of the waning Summer days and the outdoor setting.. They all begin with a film that sets the scene for the performances to come after. I have to take my hat of to the programmers. I have seen many of these kinds of outdoor concerts and it seems that many festivals and local councils just invite who they can, who they think is hot and put them with a bunch of un-heards of without any thought to the programme or consistency.
‘One Summer Night’ is broken up over 4 nights and each ‘night’ has its own theme that is less about genre specific music but performances that challenge, educate and pushes the boundaries of that particular theme. I’m not doing a particularly good job at describing just how well thought out the selections are and how interesting they will be so I will go through each night and give you some of the highlights.
Just a note, the entire listing is on the main web site at: http://www.jimff.org/jimff2010_eng/pages/p_summer_list.php so I’m not going to rehash that, just let you know some of the back ground and significant notes of each performer/performance.
Retro Night (August 13 Friday)
Retro night in my opinion, while doing an admirable job of showcasing the eclectic places that Korean music has been, also focuses on the current divergence and morphing of the current music scene from the mainstream into indy and experimental sounds.
The night will kick of with Buster Keaton’s classic silent film The General (1926). Do not be dismayed music lovers at the ‘silent’ part of this film because the score to this comedy classic with Keaton performing a myriad of stunts will be performed live by French electronic duo – Radio Mentale.
Radio Mentale started their career in 1992, with their own radio show, playing experimental and ambient & electronic music. During ten years, they produced this weekly and cult radio show in Paris for Radio FG, the national Swiss station Couleur 3 and Tokyo Shibuya FM. During this period, the also played in techno and rave parties organized in Paris. Lately they have started to live score many silent films as well as talking films such as Antonioni’s Blow Up, Gus Van Sant’s Gerry, Brian De Palma’s Dressed To Kill and David Cronenberg’s Videodrome.
KIM Su-chul
As well as composing numerous sound tracks the man is a brilliant guitarist and it’s for this that he is mostly known. He came to prominence in the 80’s after winning an American Idol like Korean broadcasting/university challenge. He was popular with young people then because his music had a much faster beat then the kind of music that was mostly hitting the top 20. He spoke to youth about the problems of adolescents and the generational gap.
He has over time become more interested in Korean traditional music and these days experiments with instruments from the more conventional electric guitar to the Korean sanjo. Kim’s stated goal is “to introduce the sound of traditional Korean music to a global audience. He is also well know n for his high-pitched yet powerful voice.
YANG Hee-eun
If you have never seen thousands of ajumas and ajoshies get up to rock in remembrance of their youth then you’re in for a treat.
Like Bob Dylan, using the word ‘folk’ to describe YANG Hee-eun doesn’t accurately explain the era, the huge protests movements and the meaning her music had for the masses at the time. She came to prominence in the l;ate 70’s and 80’s and is well known for her protests songs – many that were banned. She has a beautiful clear voice which I imagine will suit well with the beautiful surroundings of the lake. I also expect the atmosphere to be energetic and a celebration but also significant as her songs don’t just remind people of their golden years but of a time of national protest and strikes that set the scene for the democratization of the country.
Chang ki ha and the faces
Using retro to describe these guys only goes half way. To my mind they signify the turning point of the music industry and the taste of Korean audiences – in other words they are just as much about where Korean music has been and where it is going.
Chang ki ha and the faces exploded onto the pop scene in 2008 and remarkably, with their indy lo fi folk music out sold acts like Big Bang. Despite their sound they are very popular with the young and have won numerous awards in a very short space of time.
Take a look at them here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Gcs5hZWWHs
Goonamguayeoridingstella
This duo with the big name is incredibly hard to explain and like Chang ki ha and they have a complex sound again made up with inspiration from yesterday mixed up in a thoroughly contemporary way. Their music is best described as part-folk, part-electro, part-disco – and two manage to combine poignant vocals with tongue-in-cheek lyrics. Interestingly enough, the two have known each other for 13 years and used to own a bar together.
Star night(August 14 Saturday)
This night will kick of with documentary Flying Butterfly, a film about Korean rocker Yoon Do-hyeon’s band and the group’s experiences participating in an American rock festival. You can find out more about the film here: http://www.jimff.org/jimff2010_eng/pages/p_music_detail.php?musicNameEng=Star%20Night
In terms of the grand name ‘Star Night’, they have pulled all the stops inviting LEE Moon sae to perform on the shores of the lake. The guy was hot in the 70’s and 80’s singing a plethora of songs that were instantly accessible to audiences and had lyrics that many could relate to. He is as popular as ever and continues to make his mark on the music scene today. His songs have been constantly remade by acts such as Korean Idol contestants and even by Korean pop super group Big Bang.
Groove Night (Augst 15 Sunday)
Child Prodigy (2009) is the aptly titled movie that kicks of the night that goes a long way to describe the plethora of talent that you will be able to immerse yourself in.
In this case the film focuses on 6-year-old André Mathieu who won audiences and fired up concerts halls in London, New York, Paris and around the world. Adulated, hailed, praised, the child prodigy seemed to have everything to succeed. From the top of his vertiginous successes, to depths of torment, the life of the “Little Canadian Mozart” lends into his music. A romantic and passionate composer wishing for happiness, his story is nevertheless played on tragic notes.
The night then moves over from the gratuitous display of talent into a night that you can rock your socks off to. What I like about this night is that it doesn’t focus on danceable pop – that horrible middle ground of pop designed to make people at health clubs get moving. This night is incredibly diverse show casing not just underground electronic tunes but accessible hip hop and a huge dollop of Lady Ga Ga like performance art.
Supreme Team
The name Supreme Team may sound cocky to some, but it somehow aptly describes these two extremely talented musicians. The duo is comprised of Simon D, a captivating rapper and husky-voiced vocalist, and E-Sens, nicknamed Korea’s Eminem with his witty and biting lyrics. The combination of these two explosive talents has created Supreme Team, which has dominated the underground music scene in Hongdae bars and clubs. What rocks about a lot of of hip hop in this country is its ability to cross over with whole families – certainly a pre requisite to get all rocking on the shores of the lake.
Take a look at one of Korea’s premiere hip hop acts here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvRHmEIW6sM
House Rulez
After the hip hop the lake will reverberate with electronic beats much like an outdoor dance party in the west. House Rulez have appeared in many Kangnam clubs playing not just a electronic mash up of techno and French house like sets but also with a focus on performance art. I have been told that this sound aptly describes ‘real Summer music’. Apparently not only are certain foods enjoyed at certain times of the year but dance music is apparently ‘hot’ in Summer.
Check their eclectic style out here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkwnD-uQhKc&feature=fvw
EE
Before Lady Ga Ga there was LEE Yoon jung who was known as ‘Seduce’. Ten years ago, much to my surprise music videos and Korean pop music was 
much more experimental, avant garde and controversial then it is now. LEE was then cooking up a storm of tunes incorporating fashion, dance, amazing sets and hot bodies before Lady Ga Ga had even left school. As a result of showing too much flesh she was banned by many broadcasters in an era where democracy was less than 10 years old.
Now there are two of them and they are known as ‘EE’. The act incorperates her partner/husband singing as well as her old band.
Please check out the link below for a mash up of her styles and an interview with both of them: http://www.thecreatorsproject.com/ko-kr/creators/ee
BreezeNight(August 16 Monday)
Rain Rain (2010) oh how ominously apt this title is for the festival which comes at the end of the notorious rainy season. It’s actually very brave then for the programmes to have slotted this film as an outdoor feature. I will be honest, I know nothing of the film but details are here on the official site: http://www.jimff.org/jimff2010_eng/pages/p_music_detail.php?musicNameEng=Breeze%20Night
Just like the gentle breeze the music on this night is designed to take you away into different, laid back indy genres – a mix of jazz, sweeping arrangements, even Irish folk.
LEE Byeong woo
LEE Byung-woo (born 22 January 1965) is a South Korean guitarist and composer of film scores. He has composed music for over a dozen films, including the segment “Memories” in Three (2002), A Tale of Two Sisters (2003), All for Love (2005) and The Host (2006).
Lee’s music for A Tale of Two Sisters was described by OhmyNews as “one of the best film scores ever composed for a Korean film”. He won Best Music at the 2004 Shanghai International Film Festival for Untold Scandal, and in 2006 his score for The King and the Clown won the same accolade at the Blue Dragon Film Awards. In 2007, Lee received a further Best Music nomination at the 44th Grand Bell Awards. They say the man himself just playing the guitar sounds like a full orchestra.
Winterplay
Winterplay like some of the other ground breaking bands in this section are hard to pin point because they don’t follow any one genre. And. like some of the others in these eclectic nights, Winterplay mark the independent swell, bound to knock the conveyor-belt-pop music that seems to be the most popular in this country of its place in the charts If one was to describe Winterplay you would need to list a number of genres, jazz, gypsy, cha cha and even mambo. Some of the group are trained jazz performers but they are certainly not limited by their training. They came to prominence when they released their first album in January 2008, which contained a song that drew a request by the Samsung Hauzen appliance brand to be used in a TV commercial starring Witch Amusement actress Han Ga-in. Winterplay re-recorded their album’s “Happy Bubble” for use in the commercial, and the song reached #1 on the domestic jazz chart.
Here is clip of the band: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4nvJMzYt5w
Bard
Irish music played by a Korean band in the middle of Korea. I have not heard of anything so strange since the totally Scottish Average White Band started making Philly disco hits in the 70’s. These guys use a diverse range of colloquial Irish instruments like whistles, the mandolin and the bodhran (drum) to play their folky Irish tunes. A documentary was made about these guys in 2008 and they have appeared in and Austria street festival called Linzer Pflasterspektakel.
Listen to them here: http://serviceapi.nmv.naver.com/flash/NFPlayer.swf?vid=10BC56A8222F4504F6745D5EA7282E9A1701&outKey=V122807e38dbabf7bc69d8aaf6d82819c0f347410b90b1666f91e8aaf6d82819c0f34
July 25
The Jecheon International Music & Film Festival Goes Rock Crazy!
This has to be my favorite section at the JIMFF at the moment. Each year the ‘Themes and Variations’ section focuses on a particular time, genre or music movement of our musical history. This year I feel like the programmers opened my brain in my sleep and discovered my wish list of documentaries I always wanted to see about the creation of some very famous albums in 70’s/80’s rock history. Now, I cannot tell a lie – I am not that old enough to have been around when The Doors produced their seminal album aptly titled ‘The Doors’ however, The Doors were always 
around me and were 70’s electronic psychedelic rockers Pink Floyd and their album ‘The Dark Side of the Moon’. All the cool kids at school who were all bound to be come nerds in their twenties had dug this album out from their parents record collections. Camping it up in that wonderful but incredibly short 70’s time period of glam, rock and concept albums was Queen and their almost musical-soundtrack-like-experimental-discovery-into-music album ‘A Night at the Opera’. Elton John also turned heads (and some of the more conservative of that age’s stomachs) when he released ‘Goodbye Yellow Brick Road’. John Lennon, free from the candy pop experience of the early 60’s was in full experimental and hippie form when he released the ground breaking ‘Plastic Ono Band’ with his new Japanese beau pulling in as much of the world’s attention as him. But I will be honest and I can remember the video when they were on that New York building roof stopping traffic, my favorite must see documentary to watch is U2’s 
‘Joshua Tree’. Now if they only featured Def Leppard’s Hysteria!!!
July 21
Jecheon Feature Film List
The JIMFF english web site is not up yet and the schedule has also not been confirmed. A couple of days I wrote about the new programme but below is a list of all the major sections. It does not include most of the short films.
Please feel free to cut and paste these titles in to google to get an idea of the wide selection of films from countries as diverse as Iceland, Norway, China, Argentina and more.
Opening Film
Concert, The – Radu Mihaileanu, France/Italy/Romania/Belgium, 2009
World Films Today
Bravo! Jazz Life – NAM Moo-sung, Korea, 2010
Nostalgia – OH Muel, 2009
Singing Fairy, A – Zhu Feng, China 2010
Bran Nue Dae – Rachel Perkins, Australia, 2009
Rock On – Lawrence Lau, Taiwan, 2010
Kinshasa Symphony – Claus Wischmann, Germany, 2010
Urban Nomads – George Buchhaus, Australia, 2009
Autumn Adagio – Inoue Tsuki, Japan, 2009
Cine Symphony
Night at the Club, A - Jean Achache, France, 2009
Carmen of the North – Jellie Nesna, Netherlands, 2009
Child Prodigy, The Luc Dionne, Canada, 2010
Oh, My Buddha! – Tomorowo Taguchi, Japan, 2009
With or without Love – David Serrano, Spain, 2010
Tango Singer, The – Gabriel Arregui, Argentina, 2008
December – Hilmar Oddsson, Iceland, 2009
Boat That Rocked, The – Richard Curtis, UK/USA, 2009
Electro Ghetto – Uli Edel, Germany, 2010
Music in Sight
Voice of Life, The – Anne Moulvad, Denmark, 2009
Martino Unstrung – Ian Knox, UK, 2008
Toots Thielemans, a Jazz Legend Pierre Barre, Belgium, 2008
Pianomania – Lilian Franck/Robert Cibis, Germany, 2009
Secret of Boccherini, The – Carine Bylsma, Netherlands/Spain, 2008
All You Need Is Klaus – Jorg Bundschuh, Germany, 2009
Play for the Past – Paul Rigter, Netherlands, 2010
Jordi Savall and the Borgias – Maria Gorgues Capdevila, Spain, 2009
Genius Within – The Inner Life of Glenn Gould – Michele Hozer, Canada, 2009
Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound – Mary Wharton, USA, 2009
One Man Beatles, The – Cosimo Messeri, Italy, 2009
Oil City Confidential – Julian Temple, UK, 2009
Lemmy – Wes Orshoski, USA, 2010
Stones in Exile – Stephen Kijak, France/UK/USA, 2010
Sing It! – Shine Yang, Taiwan, 2008
Theme and Variations
U2: The Joshua Tree – Nuala O/connor, UK, 1999
Pink Floyd: The Dark Side of the Moon – Mathew Longfellow, UK, 2003
Queen: A Night at the Opera – Mathew Longfellow, UK, 2006
John Lennon: Plastic Ono Band -– Mathew Longfellow, UK, 2008
Doors: The Doors – Bob Smeaton, UK, 2008
Elton John: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road – Bob Smeaton, UK, 2001
Family Fest
Pupil’s Concert – Jan Otto Ertesvag, Norway, 2009
Music in the Blood – Alexandru Mavrodineanu, Romania, 2010
Musician – Kianoush Abedi, Iran, 2009
Brother Benoit and the Organ – Michel Dufourd – Switzerland, 2010
Crazy La-la – Ceci Alves Dos Santos, Brazil, 2009
Krish, Trish & Baltiboy 2 – Munjal Shroff/Tilak Shetty, India, 2010 (Animation)
Surabhi – Vishal Chaturvedi, India, 2008
Korean Music Now
Flying Butterfly – CHUNG Heum-mun, Korea, 2010
Alien Band – BYOUN Jun-Seog, Korea, 2009
Dear Music: That is, Their Fantasy Heading for the Sea – PARK Sang-o, Korea, 2009
Butterfly Flavored Biscuit – PARK Gyoung-bae, Korea, 2010
Jecheon Film Music Honorary Award Special
Chil-su and Man-su – PARK Kwang-su, Korea, 1988
Home of Two Women, The – KWAK Ji-kyoon, Korea, 1987
Whale Hunting – BAE Chang-ho, Korea, 1984
July 18
Cine Symphony
The ‘Cine Symphony’ section is Jecheon’s non competition feature section. The films obviously focus on music or films that have a musical theme but they also look at the “various musical ways of life around the world”. Again, a wide focus so I thought today I would write about some of the films in this section at this year’s JIMFF.
The Boat that Rocked UK/USA 2009
From the director of Love Actually comes yet another ensemble tale with a strong cast and yes, Bill Nighy again. The Boat That Rocked is a fictitious comedy set in Britain during 1966, but is based on the real pirate radio station named Radio Caroline, in an era when the BBC — only licensed radio broadcaster on the UK mainland — was restricted by union agreements to playing a very limited amount of recorded music each week. In the story a pirate station called Radio Rock began broadcasting pop music twenty-four hours a day from a boat anchored off the coast of England in international waters. Hosted by a colourful band of disc-jockeys, it soon gains an audience of millions and angers the government in the process. Bill happens to play the grand daddy of the pirate ship that can barely stay afloat.
Really the film is how the 8 DJs love affair with Rock n Roll changed the world forever. In the 1960s this group of rouge DJs, on a boat in the middle of the Northern Atlantic, played rock records and broke the law all for the love of music. The film features an unbelievable selection of music including The Beatles, The Stones, Beach Boys, Dusty Springfield, The Who, Jimi Hendrix, Smokey Robinson, David Bowie, Otis Redding, Cat Stevens just to name a few.
The Child Prodigy Canada, 2010-07-18
Much is made of Child Prodigy’s as though they are intelligent aliens that should be locked up and made to live a pre determined life. Not much though is said about their lives, their happiness and their dreams.
6-year-old André Mathieu won his audiences and fired up concerts halls in London, New York, Paris and around the world. Adulated, hailed, praised, the child prodigy seemed to have everything to succeed. From the top of his vertiginous successes, to depths of torment, the life of the “Little Canadian Mozart” lends into his music. A romantic and passionate composer wishing for happiness, his story is nevertheless played on tragic notes.
Written and directed by Luc Dionne, The Child Prodigy is produced by Denise Robert and Daniel Louis.
Patrick Drolet who plays Andre Mathieu’s character seems to be himself a child prodigy as he totally inhabits Andre’s character. The other major character is of course the music which often becomes a second narrator. It is a powerful and moving soundtrack.
December Iceland 2009
I’ve only really seen one other Iceland film, and that was a pretty ironic take on the vast land space that one seems to think of when thinking of the mythical Iceland. December, on the other hand is more of a comedy and that despite the harsh realties of life, leave you with a warm feeling about life.
Jonni is, a musician who after a long time living abroad returns to home Iceland to spend Christmas with his family and record an album with his old (one-hit-wonder) band. He soon finds out that family circumstances have changed dramatically and that his friends have moved on. Dealing with this blunt new reality, Jonni also has to wrestle with the reigniting of an old flame, as he helps his family make Christmas merry in spite of everything.
Here is what some reviewers thought of the December: Hjördís Stefánsdóttir at Morgunbladid daily calls it “a touching film, and its partly tragi-comic theme is timely in the run up to Christmas, as difficult situations like this are more widespread than many are ready to admit. Excellently made and a welcome addition to Icelandic films.”
“More a drama than a comedy”, says Gunnar Hjálmarsson at Fréttabladid daily, calling it low-key and unpretentious. “The poster suggests a romantic comedy in the Hollywood tradition. The film has a whiff of such elements but also shows blunt Icelandic realities. A fine kick in the behind, reminding us of the important things; family and compassion.”
Erpur Eyvindarson at DV daily finds it realistic and well told, with serious undertones. “It’s neither a romantic mush or depressingly melancholic. It shows people in difficult situations, difficult but not impossible. It’s about facing responsibilities towards oneself and one’s family. It’s about staying the course until hope delivers its promises.”
Oh, My Buddha! Japan 2009
This term is often thrown around in Asia as comic slang just like the more Western ‘Oh my God’ in Western countries. Its informality seems to set the scene for a whole new world of “free love” that opens up to Jun (played by Daichi Watanabe, of the band Kuroneko Chelsey, making a breakthrough debut here) after taking up a friend’s offer to stay at a paradise-like island youth hostel over summer break. Previously walled off from sex at a private Buddhist school for boys, this young rock n’ roll music fiend’s life is changed forever.
In the tradition of George Lucas’ classic coming-of-age film, American Graffiti and Richard Linklater’s Dazed and Confused, Taguchi and co. give a beautiful portrayal of youth, alive to the beauty of its slow fade, exalting their joys and tears alike before it all burns away, while sharing the full spectrum of intense adolescent emotions: from agonizing shame to exhilaration, frustration and doubt.
“A well-told and compulsively watchable story.” – Marc Saint-Cyr, J-Film Pow-Wow
There are more films I would like to preview for you but I am running out time. I will let you do that when the English web site is up and running this week.
July 14
JIMFF Programme Finally Released
At the time of writing the programme has not been issued on the English language version of the site: http://www.jimff.org/6th_eng_main.html
However I have written a press release with a few titles sprinkled through it. I am told the programme will be accessable early next week. I will try and get more information to this page. Please rest assured I will bring more information to have hand and will get a list of all films up on the sight. Jecheon is currently working out a new booking system so non Koreans can book films and films will be 5000 won.
Please read the following information about the new programme:
Opening Film The Concert (2009)
France/ Italy/ Romania/ Belgium, 2009, 119min, 35mm, color, drama
The Concert directed by Radu Mihaileanu with its historical scope and luscious orchestral score, based partly on a true story is the perfect way to kick of the festival. The movie, based on the former Soviet Union, tells the tale of a former conductor of the Bolshoi Orchestra who was fired from his prestigious position for refusing to let go of his Jewish players. 25 years later, now a janitor for the orchestra, the former disgraced conductor finds a fax laying around which changes the course of his life. Seeing an invitation for the orchestra to play in Paris, he decides to contact his old musical friends, assemble an orchestra and play again, as the Bolshoi in Paris.
The director Radu Mihaileanu was born in Romania and graduated from IDHEC in France (Institute for Advanced Cinematographic Studies). He first made his mark in theatre with the Montreal World Film Festival, and the Venice Film Festival winning Trahir (1993). In Director Mihaileanu’s incredible tale that encompasses dramatic history and depth, a warm hearted heroes tale emerges where romance and comedy also take centre stage. Most importantly we see how the beauty and power of music can be used to overcome a shattered past.
World Music Film Today (International Competition)
‘World Music Film Today will showcase the latest films in a myriad of genres from all over the world. Five Korean and international judges will select 2 out of 8 films to win the Best Film Award and the Judges’ Special Award. Respectively, the films will receive 10 million Korean won and 5 million won. This year World Music Film Today focus on the exciting film developments taking place in the Asian region. In addition, this section will showcase global trends in music which have long been seen as the world’s most common central means of communication.
Highlights include Japanese director Tsuki Inoue’s first feature Autumn Adagio (2009) about a nun ironically played by pop singer Rei Shibakusa, who, approaching menopause, begins to grieve the loss of youth and vitality she never had as a nun with strict rules. Originally a musical,. Bran Nue Dae (2009) screened at the Melbourne International Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival and Sundance. In this coming of age, comedy an Australian indigenous boy, a bunch of hippies and other crazy characters start out on a road trip that ultimately leads them back home.
Cine Symphony
‘Cine Symphony’ is the festival’s section that deals with musicals and contemporary features of various genres where music acts as a catalyst to the plot.
Highlights include: The Diego Martínez Vignatti written and directed The Tango Singer (2009) about a tango singer trying to get back on her feet. This dramatic tale is assisted by generous and powerful bursts of tango that move the narrative along. Like you’ve never seen Carmen before Carmen of the North (2009) is a rap version of the famous opera set in the Netherlands.
Music in Sight
‘Music in Sight’ is JIMFF’s documentary section which is designed to illuminate such themes as the musician as individual, and universal themes of life and culture. This year there will be 15 films from Korea and all over the world highlighting the documentary– a genre that is rapidly becoming popular, even at the multiplex.
Highlights include: Genius Within – The Inner Life of Glenn Gould (2009), a film that gives us an intimate glimpse into the life of the brilliant pianist who created countless controversies before his untimely death in 1992 and Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound (2009) which focuses on the life and music of American folk music icon and human rights activist Joan Baez and her 50 year career. For the jazz fans comes Toots Thielemans, the life story of the 88 year old, world famous Belgium jazz harmonica player, and for something very different Play for the Past – the story of internationally renowned harpist Lavinia Meijer, a native Korean adopted by a Dutch family. The film follows this harp playing sensation as she performs in her homeland all the while searching for her identity.
Korean Music Film Now
A boom in Korean music film production started in the mid 2000s and still, grows larger today. A wide variety of these films, feature and short will be showcased in the ‘Korean Music Film Now’ to give you an idea of this magnificent musical phenomenon.
Not only do we have Harmony and Magic, both already released and well-known in Korea, but we also have Alien Band, a film about young foreigners forming a band in Korea and their adventures as they set forth. Flying Butterfly, is a film about Korean rocker Yoon Do-hyeon’s band and the group’s experiences participating in an American rock festival. Butterfly Flavored Biscuit reveals how indie band Butterfly Flavor from Busan recorded their album and went mainstream, and last up is Laughing Guitar a heartwarming film about a musician who goes back to his hometown to start a music school and share his love for music with the locals.
Family Fest
Family Fest also brings music and excitement to the little-ones and their family. This section includes music films and shorts that the whole family can enjoy.
Theme & Variations
Named after a form of classical music in which composers’ musical imaginations expand to encompass variations on a theme, ‘Theme & Variations’ is an annual highlights section through which viewers can explore a specific region or musical genre deeply to ultimately reach a deeper understanding through significant cinematic works in that chosen theme.
The current section of Theme and Variation, 2010, (entitled ‘Hall of Fame’) introduces six documentaries, including footage about a number of legendary albums, all of which represent the evolution of rock and pop music in the 1970’s and 1980’s.
It is a great opportunity to be able to experience the untold stories of the birth of monumental albums such as Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon, The Doors’ first album, The Doors, Queen’s A Night at the Opera, John Lennon’s Plastic Ono Band, Elton John’s Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, U2’s The Joshua Tree, as well as offering dynamic footage of those bands’ thrill-engendering live performances.
Jecheon Film Music Award Special
JIMFF has long recognized musical directors who have left a significant mark on the industry through the soundtracks they have composed. This year we are proud to announce music director KIM Su-cheol as the 2010 award winner.
Kim Su-cheol, popular singer and music director, started his career working on soundtracks such as director Nam Saeok-hun’s Gone too far (1983), and worked in some 30 films including BAE Chang-ho’s Whale Hunting 1, 2 (1984/85) Chil-su and Man-su (1988), and perhaps IM Kwon-taek’s most well known film Seopyonje (1993)which he also starred in.
He has used a diverse array of genres within his films’ scores from rock and roll to Korean traditional music. He made a comeback after a long break, in LEE Jun-ik’s recently released Blades of Blood (2010).
Cinema Concert
JIMFF flagship programme, which begun way back in 2006, is its Cinema Concert. Here performers interpret and reproduce soundtracks, performing them live to accompanying films. These performers take place outside under the stars next to the beautiful Cheongpung Lake.
This year, cult sound-system RadioMentale, which consists of 2 French DJs, will be performing an avant garde act to Buster Keaton’s 1926 work, The General.
Given that Jecheon is a Music and Film Festival, it will also be showcasing a whole host of other musical performers from singer song writers to rap groups such as Supreme Team. The festival will also hold its own pitching session ‘Pitch and Hitch’, forums and will close with the film which wins in the international competition section.
Contact
Information can be found in English and Korean on the official web site: http://www.jimff.org/6th_eng_main.html and on the official blog: http://jimff.wordpress.com. A facebook page has also been set up, please search for it using key word jimff.
July 10
Confirmed Movies
The programme is not out yet but there are two confirmed movies in the competition section.
Anvil! The
story of AnvilIn a tribute to me and my dancing around my room in the 80’s comes Anvil! The story of
Anvil. In the true spirit of Spinal Tap yet ironically a completely true story comes a documentary comes humor, a story of loss unfilled dreams yet a stubborn will to don the instruments and conquerorthe world – again.At fourteen years old, best friends Lips and Robb Reiner made a pact to rock together
forever. Their band Anvil, hailed as the “demi-gods of Canadian metal,”
influenced a musical generation including Metallica, Slayer and Anthrax.Though Anvil never made it, they never stopped playing or believing. Following a
calamitous European tour, Lips and Robb, now well into their fifties, set off
to record their thirteenth album, “This is Thirteen,” in one last attempt to
fulfill their boyhood dream.
Anvil! The Story of Anvil is a 2008 documentary film about the Canadian heavy
metal band, Anvil. The film is directed by
screenwriter Sacha Gervasi, whose previous credits include The Big Tease
(co-written with Craig Ferguson) and The Terminal.
The movie features interviews with other musicians who have been influenced by the
band, including Slash (Guns N’ Roses,
Velvet
Revolver), Tom Araya (Slayer), Lemmy (Hawkwind,
Motörhead),
Scott Ian
(Anthrax, Stormtroopers of Death), and Lars Ulrich
(Metallica).
Anvil! The story of Anvil premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2008,
and won Audience Awards at the 2008 Sydney Film Festival, Los Angeles Film Festival
and Galway International Film Festival. The film has been nominated in the
“Truer Than
Fiction” category of Film
Independent’s 2009 Independent Spirit Awards. The award recognizes
emerging directors of non-fiction films.
Michael Moore
said that the movie is “the best documentary I’ve seen in years” and The Times
called it “possibly the greatest film yet made about rock and roll”. The film was named Best Documentary of 2009
at the Evening Standard British Film Awards
in London.
Just think, there’s still time for me to end up this way 
Here is the trailer:
http://www.break.com/movie-trailers/anvil-the-story-of-anvil-trailer.htmlUnmade Beds
