The Florence Korea Film Fest Awards
Festival Cinema Award
The Florence Korea Film Fest will pay homage to the guests of honor of its twenty-third edition, the actor Hwang Jung-min and the director Na Hong-jin with the special prize Festival Cinema Award. A recognition that the event wants to give to the talent of great protagonists of Korean cinema, already well known to all fans and spectators of the Festival thanks to the numerous and unforgettable performances and their successful careers.
Festival Jury Award ( Horizons & Independent)
A group of jurors chosen from professionals engaged in the film industry with diverse skills and interests will be united to evaluate the films in the two competition sections (Korean Horizons and Independent Korea) to award the Festival Critics Award to the winning film of the 20th Florence Korea Film Fest, which will be announced at the close of the event.
Festival Audience Award ( Horizons & Independent)
Among the two categories of films presented at the Festival, Korean Horizons and Independent Korea, the audience will be able to vote for their favorite either in the theater at the end of each screening or online through the MYmovies website. The winner of this special award given by viewers will be announced during the closing ceremony.
Festival Audience Award (Short, Shorts)
Among the short films, audiences will be able to vote for their favorite either in the theater at the end of each screening or online through the MYmovies website. The winner of this special award given by viewers will be announced during the closing ceremony.
The FKFF Jury
President of the Jury
Andrea Diego Bernardini
Professional with twenty years of experience in the entertainment industry. In 2005 he founded the Lucca Film Festival together with a group of friends. After some collaborations with Lucca Comics & Games in 2012 he joined the staff of the festival. Here he is responsible for growing and consolidating the Movie area dedicated to cinema and TV series, and from 2024 he will also add the Videogames area to his duties. He is also the creator and co-author of the Cinema Confidential podcast for Il Cinemino in Milan.
Lavinia Andreini
Lavinia Andreini, director and screenwriter born in Lucca in 1997, made her debut at the age of 15 with “La Bella degli Specchi” at the Lucca Film Festival. Among his successes: “The Pursuit of Beauty”, winner of the Social World Film Festival and selected for nominations in the Live Action Short Film category of the 2024 Oscars, and “Voices of Freedom”, awarded at Venice Authors Day 2024 with the Book Ciak Azione award. Now he is working on “My Self”, an LGBTQ+ short film supported by the Toscana Film Commission.
Lorenzo Fantoni
Lorenzo Fantoni, freelance journalist and writer, has been dealing with pop/tech culture for years and in his career has collaborated with newspapers such as “La Stampa”, “La Repubblica”, “Wired”, “Vice”, “Esquire”. Every week he curates interventions for the RaiNews24 program “Altri Mondi”, has collaborated on programs and documentaries on nerd culture with Sky and DMAX and is director of the online cultural magazine “N3rdcore” and the newsletter dedicated to journalism “Heavy Meta”.
Pierfrancesco Bigazzi
Independent actor, director and film producer. Born in 1988, he is a member of the independent record label Materiali Sonori. Founder of the film area MATERIALI SONORI CINEMA. He has made, as director and director of photography, many short films and many video clips for musicians of the independent music scene. Artistic director and organizer of the SENTIERO FILM FACTORY, short film festival, in its 4th edition.
Viola Giacalone
Viola Giacalone (Viola Valéry) is a journalist and writer born in Florence in ’96. She graduated in Comparative Literature from the Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris, and for years was part of the
collective of writers In Fuga Dalla Bocciofila, with a column on films and cinemas called “Cinemini”. He is currently part of the editorial staff of Controradio Firenze and collaborates as a freelancer with various publishing companies, such as “Il Fatto Quotidiano”, “Minima&Moralia”, “The Bunker”.