Alumnus Director Ruslan Park Won New Currents World Premiere of the 25th Busan International Film Festival with <Three>
Director Ruslan Park, a beneficiary of K-Arts’ full scholarship for foreign students, won New Currents World Premiere with <Three (2020)> at the 25th Busan International Film Festival (BIFF.)
This award aims to
discover and encourage new talented directors in Asia, and Ruslan Park became
the first Korean-Uzbekistan winner. <Three> is a
collaborative work by Korea and Kazakhstan whose plot bases on a true story of
a serial killer who existed in the Soviet Union forty years ago. Because the
film sets in Kazakhstan, the staff traveled between Korea and Kazakhstan for a
year of the filmmaking process. The jury of BIFF commented, “Three re-creates
the traditional stereotype of a serial killer.” Ruslan Park debuted in Korea
with <Hanaan (2011)>, and ever since, he has worked on
documentaries and films about Korean-Uzbekistan people.
In K-Arts, Director Park studied filmmaking as a beneficiary of
the Art Major Asian plus program, a scholarship program for students from
developing countries. Numbers of graduates from this program are now active as
artists all over the world.