Pusan International Film Festival

'In only its eighth year, the Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF) has become Asia's best known festival, bringing together a market and project development event with the more traditional programme of screenings. Its ability to link a wide range of cinema practices with the increasingly diverse market players converging around Asian cinema make it an inspiration for those of us in Australia who bemoan the seemingly unbridgable gulf between industrial practice and screen culture events.'