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Thursday, October 10, 2013
Busan film fest grows on goodwill of Asia’s stars Associated Press Writer
BUSAN, South Korea — How much would it cost to hire Asia’s biggest movie stars to host the region’s largest film event?
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FILE - In this Friday, Oct. 4, 2013 photo, the Busan International Film Festival village is seen on Haeundae Beach as the various events go on in Busan, south of Seoul, South Korea.
Hong Kong star Aaron Kwok opened this year’s Busan International Film Festival for a mere 500,000 won, or $465, according to Yang Heon Kyu, who oversees the festival’s budget. In 2012, Chinese actress Tang Wei accepted the same amount. The goodwill from big-name stars is one indication of how important Busan has become to the Asian film industry in less than two decades. It is not just actors. Lee Chang-dong, whose “Poetry” won best screenplay at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival, is receiving 1 million won ($928) to serve as dean of the festival’s 18-day training academy for novice filmmakers. Other veteran filmmakers received 300,000 won ($278) or less for teaching. “The dean has to buy dinner for students,” said Yang, explaining why the pay is higher. China’s Jia Zhang-ke and Iran’s Abbas Kiarostami are among acclaimed filmmakers who have taught at Busan in past years. The festival also has nearly 900 volunteers to assist audiences, screen movies,
sell tickets and ensure subtitles are in place while getting paid less than $10 a day during the 10-day festival. Volunteers are a staple of film festivals around the world, though the sheer number of them at Busan is unusual. “There’s almost no film festivals with so many volunteers like here,” said Kim Ji-seok, the festival’s executive programmer. The festival in Busan, South Korea’s secondlargest city, is one of the most important events in the Asian film industry, drawing more than 200,000 visitors last year. China and Japan are the world’s second- and third-biggest film markets, and South Korean entertainers are regional superstars, heightening international interest in the festival.
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Thursday, October 10, 2013
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NEW YORK — Miley Cyrus says she’s not sure she’ll make up with Sinead O’Connor after the back and forth drama between the singers. When asked in an interview Tuesday if she and the 46-yearold performer would kiss and make up, Cyrus replied with: “I don’t know. Are we supposed to kiss?” Cyrus made the comments in New York when meeting fans at a CD signing for her new album, “Bangerz,” released Tuesday. The drama launched last week when the Irish chanteuse warned the young singer to avoid being sexually exploited by the music industry. The first open letter came after Cyrus said her “Wrecking Ball” video, where she is nude and licks a sledgehammer, was inspired by O’Connor’s famous “Nothing Compares 2 U.” Cyrus responded on Twitter by mentioning O’Connor’s struggles with bipolar disorder and compared the singer-songwriter to troubled actress Amanda Bynes, who has been treated in a psychiatric hospital. The feud between the performers continued Tuesday when O’Connor published a fourth open letter to Cyrus,
asking for an apology. The “We Can’t Stop” singer was all smiles as she thanked the hundreds of fans at Planet Hollywood for buying and listening to her new album. “Bangerz” features Britney Spears,
Agence France-Presse
KUTA - Prime Minister Tony Abbott Wednesday announced a scheme to compensate Australian victims of overseas terror attacks and their families as he laid a wreath at the site of the 2002 Bali bombings. Flanked by his wife Margie, Abbott bowed his head during the solemn ceremony at a stone monument that honours the 202 people, mostly foreign tourists, who died in the attacks.
Pharrell, will.i.am and others. “It’s so rad to see all my fans out here. I’ve been trying to keep this music a secret for a year, so now that it’s bumping on the speakers it feels so good,” she said.
Abbott said he was making the visit, after his attendance at a summit on Bali, to “honour the dead, to commiserate with those who were injured on that night and who still bear the scars, physical and mental”. Eighty-eight Australians were among those killed in the attacks by Islamist militants on a nightclub and bar on the party strip of Kuta on the Indonesian resort island. Abbott’s visit to the monument, which stands across from the site of the Sari Club that was attacked in 2002, was his first since becoming prime minister last month and came just days before the 11th anniversary of the attacks. “The long campaign to provide a measure of justice to the victims of terrorist atrocities overseas is coming to a close,” he said, as he announced the compensation scheme. He said victims of overseas terror at-
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Recording artist Miley Cyrus attends an album release signing event, on Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2013, at Planet Hollywood in New York.
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Australia PM announces terror attack compensation in Bali
Cyrus on making up with O’Connor: I don’t know
Associated Press Writer
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tacks and their next of kin could apply for Aus$75,000 (US$70,700) in compensation, in a scheme he said would cost the government about Aus$30 million. Abbott also recalled that he was in Bali during a second terror attack in 2005, and had volunteered in a local hospital to help victims. “We have had support all the way through with regard to medical, but there’s never been an actual compensation payout,” Glenn Cosman, who was hit by shrapnel in the attack on the Sari Club, told ABC radio. “Many people have always asked that question of me -- what sort of compensation did you get. And the answer has always been nothing.” People will be able to apply for the compensation from October 21 and Abbott said it would benefit around 300 individuals and families. Continued on page 6
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, right, and his wife Margie attend a wreath laying ceremony at the memorial of the 2002 Bali bombing that killed 202 people during his visit at the site in Kuta, Bali, Indonesia, Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2013. Australia suffered more deaths in the attacks than any other country, with 88 of its citizens dead.