Alumnus Director Ruslan Park Won New Currents World Premiere of the 25^th 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.