BIFF and sneaking inside

The BIFF stands for Busan International Film Festival. Growing up in Toronto we had TIFF which is the Toronto International Film Festival. I never really got whats so exciting about these things, especially the red carpet opening. But my goal this year was to see and do as many new things as I can and so I readily agreed when my friend Steve invited me to go red carpet watching at the opening ceremony.

To be honest it was actually pretty fun. Running around with my new camera and trying to catch glimpses of famous people, most of whom I didn't even know. I feel like thats the same for most people there. I had an ajumma (old korean lady), ask me who Cecilia Cheung was :D

Speaking of which the most famous people we saw at the festival were Cecilia Cheung, and this Korean director that I forgot the name of.

After all the celebrities have left Steve and I decided to explore and by luck or skill we managed to sneak past the security guard. So we had free access to the BIFF opening day. We got to the rooftop of the building and could see everything that was happening at the premiere. And the other theaters inside were doing test runs of the movies that were going to be shown during the festival and so it was all empty so we got to sit in on some of them.

We almost got caught a couple of times , but by our quick feet we managed to elude capture. Sometimes we just pretended like we belonged there and no one questioned us - LIKE A BOSS.

All in all a really fun night that I will never forget.

Update: Now that the opening is over I am trying to get tickets to see some of the movies which are dirt cheap 6000W each ticket, which is about $5 Canadian - I love you BIFF! Some of the ones that stood out are:

Cold War, Argo, The Concubine, Nairobi Half Life, Doctor, Dangerous Liasons.

But because I work during the week, and lack of tickets I probably will only be able to see one or two of these at best. :(