SHIN Dong-seok graduated from the Korean National University of Arts, majoring in filmmaking. His short films, <A Stirring Ripple> (2005) and <Gahee & B.H> (2006), were invited to the Jeonju International Film Festival and Mise-en-scene Short Film Festival. <A Stirring Ripple> won the Excellence Award for Best Picture at Busan International Short Film Festival and <Gahee & B.H.> won the Best Picture Award and the Best Photography Award at Mise-...More
SHIN Dong-seok graduated from the Korean National University of Arts, majoring in filmmaking. His short films, <A Stirring Ripple> (2005) and <Gahee & B.H> (2006), were invited to the Jeonju International Film Festival and Mise-en-scene Short Film Festival. <A Stirring Ripple> won the Excellence Award for Best Picture at Busan International Short Film Festival and <Gahee & B.H.> won the Best Picture Award and the Best Photography Award at Mise-en-scene Short Film Festival. <Last Child> is his first feature film.Less
JUNG Soo-jung (aka Krystal JUNG), a member of the world-famous K-pop outfit f(x), has signed on to appear in the indie drama Shouts of a Father (translated title). The film will mark the feature debut of director CHOI Ha-na. JUNG is slated to appear as To-il, a college student who falls pregnant out of wedlock following a passionate romance and begins a search for her biological father before her ...
The documentary The Remnants (2016) from directors KIM Il-ran and LEE Hyuk-sang, which chronicles the aftermath of the Yongsan Tragedy of 2009, has earned the Grand Prize at this year’s 6th edition of the Wildflower Film Awards Korea, which was held at the Seoul Literature House on the slopes of Namsan mountain on the evening of Friday, April 12. JEON Go-woon’s acclaimed debut Microhabitat (2017) ...
The Wildflower Film Awards Korea are returning for their 6th edition next month, once again to be held at the Literature House Seoul on Namsan Mountain in the heart of the Korean capital. This year’s top nominees are KIM Ui-seok’s After My Death (2018) and SHIN Dong-seok’s Last Child (2018), which received six nominations apiece and initially premiered together in the New Currents competition of t...
The Korean Film Council (KOFIC - Chairman, OH Seok Geun) hosted its ‘Korean Film Night’ event during the 68th Berlin International Film Festival at the Korean Culture Center in Berlin at 8pm on Monday, February 19. The event was put on to celebrate the Korean films invited to this year’s Berlinale and to promote exchanges between Korean filmmakers and film professionals from around the world. The ...