The Secret Garden is a production company created by SHIM Hyeon-u that aims to uncover budding directors and produce challenging films from young authors. As such, its first work <Re-encounter> (2010) from MIN Yong-keun won many awards at the Busan International Film Festival and the Seoul Independent Film Festival in 2010. It then ventured to genre fare with the period mystery drama <The Silenced> (2014) from LEE Hae-young, before releasing KIM Jin-do’s <Bl...More

The Secret Garden is a production company created by SHIM Hyeon-u that aims to uncover budding directors and produce challenging films from young authors. As such, its first work <Re-encounter> (2010) from MIN Yong-keun won many awards at the Busan International Film Festival and the Seoul Independent Film Festival in 2010. It then ventured to genre fare with the period mystery drama <The Silenced> (2014) from LEE Hae-young, before releasing KIM Jin-do’s <Blossom> (2015) and KIM Yu-ri’s <Sub-zero Wind> (2018), the latter of which won the Directors Guild of Korea Award at the Busan International Film Festival as well as the Jury Award at the Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema.Less