Holland Animation Film Festival Awards KAFA Feature
A Korean student production prevailed at the 18th Holland Animation Film Festival, picking up the Grand Prix for feature film. Produced by the Korean Academy of Film Arts (KAFA), HUR Bum-wook’s On the White Planet was the second consecutive Korean feature to pick up the prize in the Utrecht, Netherlands-based fest.
The feature debut of HUR, On the White Planet follows a young boy who is born with yellow skin in a world devoid of color. Ostracised for being different, he lives a hard life, which is only made more desperate when his mother takes her own life when he turns 16. The film follows YEON Sang-ho’s The Fake, which picked up the Grand Prix last year.