Fest also announced that Gulnara Sarsenova has been tapped for the Asian filmmaker of the year honor. She is chair of Kazakhstan's International Eurasia Film Festival and a noted producer.

At Lincoln Center since 1988, Pena is also director of the New York Film Festival.

In 2004 he organized an event unspooling 40 Korean films from the previous 60 years.

In March he held the first retrospective of the 10th anniversary of the death of Kim Ki-young, screening 12 of the director's works, including his masterpiece, "The Housemaid."

The Pusan fest runs Oct. 2-10.

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