ALONERS Invited to Göteborg Film Festival

Hong Sungeun’s acclaimed debut film Aloners (2021) has been invited to the upcoming 45th Göteborg Film Festival in Sweden. Also on the program is the Thailand-Singapore-South Korea co-produced short film New Abnormal.Aloners, a project from the graduate featur...

MOONLIT WINTER Opens Theatrical in Japan

Lim Daehyung’s indie hit Moonlit Winter (2019), starring Kim Heeae and Kim Sohye, was released theatrically in Japan on January 7.The second film from Director Lim, Moonlit Winter had its world premiere at the Busan International Film Festival, where it served...

Actor Oh Youngsoo, the Winner of the Best TV Supporting Actor at 79th Golden Globe Awards

Actor Oh Youngsoo has become the first Korean winner of the Best TV Supporting Actor at the 79th Golden Globe Awards. At the awards ceremony held at the Beverly Hills Hilton Hotel in LA on January 9 (local time), Oh Youngsoo won the award after competing with ...

KidariStudio and KIDARI ENT Merge to Form New Content Studio

Waiting for Rain (2021)KidariStudio and KIDARI ENT have merged and officially launched a content production company. The merged outfit will seek to exploit its extensive IP webtoon and film library to produce content that can be scaled out in franchises and/or...

Nexon Acquires 38% Stake in Russo Brothers Production Company AGBO

Avengers: Endgame (2019)Nexon, a top Korean-Japanese gaming company, is doubling down on its recent move into the filmed contents business after acquiring a 38% stake in the Hollywood production company AGBO, run by Avengers: Endgame directors the Russo Brothe...

Berlinale’s Forum Section Selects Jeonju Cinema Projects AFTERWATER and A FLOWER IN THE MOUTH

A pair of Korean co-productions supported by the Jeonju Cinema Project, Dane Komljen’s Afterwater and Éric Baudelaire's A Flower in the Mouth, have been invited to screen at the upcoming 72nd Berlin International Film Festival. Both titles are among the fi... Afterwater, a co-production between Germany, Spain, South Korea and Serbia and the second feature from Serbian filmmaker Dane Komljen, received support from the Jeonju International Film Festival (JIFF) as one of their Jeonju Cinema Projects and was originally scheduled to screen at the 2020 edition to the festival. However, owing to the pandemic, public screenings were not held. The film, which follows three people who explore the space around a lake, will thus have its world premiere in Berlin and subsequently screen officially at JIFF later this year.

GUIMOON: THE LIGHTLESS DOOR Wins Audience Award at Vancouver Asian Film Festival

The Korean horror film GUIMOON: The Lightless Door from director Sim Deokgeun won the People’s Choice Overall Feature Film Award last month from this year’s 25th Vancouver Asian Film Festival (VAFF). Also on the awards list was filmmaker Hwang Donghyuk, who pi...

Don Lee and Jung Hoyeon Selected among Variety’s International Breakout Stars of 2021

A pair of Korean actors have landed on the ‘International Breakout Stars of 2021’ list from influential Hollywood trade journal Variety. Veteran actor Don Lee (aka Ma Dongseok), fresh from his Hollywood debut Eternals, and Squid Game breakout Jung Hoyeon made ...

A LEAVE Crowned Best Independent Film of the Year

Lee Ranhee’s debut film A Leave (2020) has been voted as the Best Independent Film of the Year by the Association of Korea Independent Film & TV. Director Lee recently picked up the Best Director Award from the 22nd Women in Film Awards.A Leave had its wor...

SPECIAL DELIVERY with Park Sodam Invited to Rotterdam’s Harbour Program

Special DELIVERY, a new action-thriller featuring Park Sodam of Parasite (2019) fame, has been selected to screen at the upcoming International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR). The film will bow in the festival’s Harbour program, a recently launched strand that...