What is the purpose of your visit to the Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival (PiFan)?
Magnus Paulsson: I am in the EFFF Asian Award Jury. I came here with a colleague of mine, Lorenzo Codelli from Italy, and we are supposed to hand the award for the best Asian film at Puchon this year. We just decided the winner this afternoon, but the announcement will be made tomorrow. The reason why the festival brought me here is that I am a member of this federation of fantastic film festivals in Europe. Each year, two members of the federation are invited to PiFan to hand out the Asian award. Normally back in Europe, we usually work with European films, so it’s a great pleasure to be able to be here and to watch a lot of interesting Asian films. Can a network of festivals be a platform for European Fantastic films to travel further, in Asia for example? Magnus Paulsson: Absolutly. Many Asian fantastic festivals have an interest and a relationship with our Federation, so they can have access to all the European films presented at member-festivals in a pretty easy way. For example,
