BUCHEON CITY, SOUTH KOREA—An emerging Filipino filmmaker has been making waves as a film student at the Fantastic Film School (FFS) of the 28th Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (BIFAN) in this city.
Jaime Morados, a twenty-five-year-old director of the short film “Ang Pagliligtas sa Dalagang Bukid,” an entry to the 2022 Quezon City International Fantastic Film Festival in the Philippines, is wrapping up on July 10 his studies of genre filmmaking at FFS under international film professionals and practitioners.
Jaime is one of the 31 chosen few who passed the rigorous requirements before an applicant is selected to undergo genre (horror, thriller, sci-fi, supernatural, fantasy and the likes) modes of production.
At the moment, Morados is making waves as a sole Filipino delegate to the genre film education and networking program for developing filmmakers.
According to one of his classmates, Jaime is an attentive, intelligent and hardworking student.
He is also taking advantage of the rare opportunity to learn more about genre filmmaking.
“Sa Pilipinas, wala masyadong (In the Philippines, there’s not much) program on genre filmmaking so this is a chance of a lifetime,” he said.
Jaime is also enjoying his school in BIFAN.
“This is a blast. Aside from meeting new friends from among my classmates and festival guests, I am also learning a lot about the movie industries in other countries,” he explained.
Tomorrow, July 10, Jaime and his classmates will graduate from the various courses designed for them like Editing, Storytelling, Visual Effects, among others.
Some of this year’s mentors include Barry Sabath, a professor at the American Film Institute, President of Family Channel Pictures, Vice President of Production at Columbia Pictures, juror at Hawaii Intl Film Festival, Ashland Independent Film Festival, Outfest LA, SouthEast European Film Festival and the and The Korean Film Festival, both Los Angeles, California. He was the Dean of the 2023 NAFF FFS; Chris Lee, President of Production at TriStar Pictures and Columbia Pictures, Founder and Director of Academy for Creative Media at the University of Hawaii. Lee was Executive of the films “Jerry Maguire,” “Philadelphia” and “As Good as it Gets” etc.; Evrim Ersoy, Head of Programming at Beyond Fest, Programmer at Lisbon International Horror Film Festival (MOTELX), Senior Programmer at Imagine Film Festival, Producer of “Hostile Dimensions,” “To Fire You Come First,” Best Director at the 34h Sitges Film Festival in 2004 for “Breaking News” etc.; Johnnie To, a celebrated filmmaker in Hong Kong; Steve Choe, Professor at the School of Film, TV and Multimedia at Korean National University of Arts, Founder of C-47 Post Studio, Editor of SBS TV series, “Revenant,” Disney+ feature film “Vigilante,” Netflix series “Money Heist,” etc.; Kim Sungho, Professor at the Department of Storytelling for Contents at Chugye University of the Arts. Kim has won numerous awards like Silver Raven Award at Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival for “Horror Stories” in 2014, Busan International Film Festival Zemiro Award, Gerardmer Fantasy Film Festival Audience Award for “Into the Mirror” in 2003 etc.
Internationally acclaimed filmmaker and film festival organizer Roger Garcia (advisor to the Asian Film Awards, Hong Kong International Film Festival, London East Asia Film Festival, Udine Film Festival etc.) is the 2024 Dean of FFS
In the past, popular and award-winning Filipino filmmakers like Richard Legaspi Soriano, Arden Rod Condez, Kenneth Dagatan, David Corpuz, among others, were also students of FFS.
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