One of my favourite books from 1997 is Ellen Ullman's collection of essays, Close to the Machine. Ullman began her adult life as an aspiring writer, diverted into software engineering for a decade or ...

You never know when your life is going to change and get a second chance at starting over. Just before Christmas last year, 41-year-old Chad Latham received a call from his lawyer. He had news from ...

Born and raised in Busan, the BIFF executive programmer Kim Ji-seok is truly a Busan man. Most internationally known of BIFF’s co-founding troika, Kim has been one of the festival’s guiding forces ...