Bucheon film fest bets big on AI as it turns 30

The Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (BIFAN) is doubling down on artificial intelligence and immersive media for its 30th edition, organizers said at a Seoul press conference Tuesday.

The push extends a direction the festival set last year, when it opened with a feature built on an AI-generated screenplay and ran a multi-day conference on the technology.

This time it has gone even further: Of the record 321 films from 50 countries playing July 2-12 in Bucheon, Gyeonggi Province, 38 ...