Asian Project Market (APM) is a first launched co-production platform in Asia that offers emerging filmmakers the opportunity to meet international leading film professionals. After launching in 1998 as Pusan Promotion Plan (PPP), it has grown into the biggest and most important pre-market in Asia. In 2011, it was renamed as Asian Project Market and has been successfully delivering its role as cradle of creativity. Each year APM discovers fresh feature film projects ranging from big-scale commercial ones to low-budget indies to link them with global film investors, producers and distributors. Numerous APM projects have already made it through to completion and received positive responses from both film festivals and international audiences. As such, APM continues to earn greater interest from filmmakers around the world.

Asian Cinema Fund : Post-production Fund

The Post-Production Fund provides post-production services to a select number of Asian independent feature-length fiction film projects. At the state-of-the-art facilities in Korea, the selected projects receive the following to complete their films: DI, sound mixing, English subtitle spotting and D-Cinema packaging services. Upon completion, the selected projects are required to make their world premieres at Busan International Film Festival where they find opportunities to continue their travel to the rest of the world and gain further recognition for their artistic and promising talents in filmmaking.

Asian Network of Documentary(AND) Fund

The Asian Network of Documentary (AND) Fund is a loose coalition of film festival organizers committed to supporting the production and distribution of Asian documentaries. Its members collaborate to build and strengthen the network among Asian documentary filmmakers, while the administration and oversight of AND are being managed by BIFF.
During the Busan International Film Festival, AND holds various programs, including the AND Clinics and one-on-one meeting. AND programs introduce useful knowledge to Asian filmmakers to polish up their projects, enhance the practical skills, and broaden insights into documentary markets. AND also organizes several showcases to present films that were completed with the support of AND funds. In cooperation with international documentary film festivals, AND expands their opportunity and seeks new distribution networks for documentary films.

JEONJU Next Edition is a project pitching event to select an international project for JEONJU Cinema Project. It seeks to discover promising directors and quality projects from overseas. To meet the requirements for application, the film (fiction or documentary) must be at least 60 minutes long and the director or the producer must have directed or produced at least one feature project.

The Network of Asian Fantastic Films (hereafter NAFF) was launched in 2008 for the purpose of promoting genre film production and development and has become BIFAN’s representative film industry program. For the last 13 years, it has been continuously receiving love and support from genre film professionals for being a platform for film production support, education, interaction, and global networking. Celebrating its 13th year in 2020, NAFF strives to boost the worldwide genre film industry through Sitges Pitchbox, an industry program of world’s foremost fantastic film festival, Sitges - International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia, the Nordic Genre Invasion for the revival of fantastic films in the Nordic region, Blood Window, a genre film industry program for South America’s largest film market, Ventana Sur and Japan’s VIPO (Visual Industry Promotion Organization) to promote active global interaction and cooperation.