Korea's only film music market
where film composers, directors, and producers gather together, focusing on film music.
As Korea’s only music film festival, the Jecheon International Music & Film Festival (JIMFF) is hosting the ‘2026JIMFF Music Film Market’, a specialized film music market, to lead the creative combination of film and music and serve as a core driving force in practical film production.
This year, the market separates the feature and short film categories to support customized pitching and business matching for projects and film composers. Projects and creators carefully selected through preliminary expert screening will participate in various programs during the market period, including 1:1 business meetings, open pitching, and networking events. Notably, during the open pitching session—the core program of the market—film composers will analyze the projects in advance and propose their film music concepts and working directions directly to the directors, creating a practical venue for collaboration. With the central goal of building and expanding a creative ecosystem and industrial foundation centered on film music, a total of three projects that successfully achieve final matching (one feature and two shorts) will be awarded a post-production support fund (8,000,000 KRW for the feature film and 1,000,000 KRW each for the short films) along with plaques.
The Short Film Production Support Project category aims to discover and support short film projects of all genres in the planning and pre-production stages, extending beyond music films. Ten short film projects, strictly selected through preliminary screening by experts, will undergo final evaluation through open pitching during the festival. The two ultimately selected projects will receive a total of 15 million KRW in production grants (10,000,000 KRW for one project, and 5,000,000 KRW for the other) along with plaques. Participants in the project will take part in various programs, including the open pitching session for the 10 film projects, an opening event, and networking events for filmmakers and musicians. Through this initiative, the festival intends to encourage the future screening of the completed works, establishing a virtuous cycle ecosystem of "discovery-production-screening."