SEOUL -- The year's Pusan International Film Festival is shaping up, as organizers have announced this year's juries and the winners of the Asian Filmmaker of the Year and Korea Cinema awards. The jury for the New Currents competitive section of PIFF includes Sergey Lavrentiev (program director of the Sochi International Film Festival) who will serve as jury president, along with Dito Tsintsadze (director of Gun-shy), Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Tropical Malady), Fruit Chan (Little Cheung), and Kim So-young. The winner of the New Currents section is awarded $10,000. There are also awards for best Korean short film and best documentary from the Wide Angle section of the festival, both of which award 10 million won (about $8,500) toward each director's coming projects.
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