Busan International Film Festival has huge prominence in the International Festival circuit. The 20th edition of Busan Film Festival is scheduled from October 1 – 10, 2015. The recent news from the corner is regarding the honor which Wieland Speck will receive from the event. The Berlinale Panorama director will receive this year’s Korean Cinema Award.

This Award is usually given to individuals who have helped and contributed in taking Korean Cinema to worldwide audiences. Busan International Film Festival decided to give this award to Wieland Speck as he screened a total of 29 Korean films in his 23 years at his post.

Some of the previous award winners of this title includes, Cannes’ Gilles Jacob, Tokyo Filmex’s Hayashi Kanako and Film Society of the Lincoln Center’s Richard Pena. Through this achievement, Wieland Speck is joining the elite league of personalities who bagged this reputed honor.

“Korean cinema remains ever surprising, a vivid mirror of its diverse societal developments – which makes selecting for the Berlin International Film Festival so exciting”, said Speck.

In the meantime, the festival organizers also announced the names of wide angle juries. Two juries have been appointed to give out BIFF Mecenat Award and the Sonje Award respectively. Artur Liebhart from Poland, Venice-awarded Chinese documentary filmmaker Du Haibin and young Korean director Kim Dong-ryeong forms the Mecenat Award Jury panel.

Renowned Japanese director Suwa Nobuhiro, Korean actress Kim Ho Jung and SXSW programmer Claudette Godfrey are there in the Sonje Award jury panel.