JUNG Woo-sung to Executive Produce THE SILENT SEA for Netflix

Superstar JUNG Woo-sung (Steel Rain, 2014) is once again going behind the camera as he has partnered with Netflix to be an executive producer on their upcoming sci-fi thriller series The Silent Sea (working title). The Silent Sea will take place in a future wh...

OH Ha-nee Picks Up Best Actress at FirstGlance Philadelphia

Actress OH Ha-nee has picked up the Best Actress prize at the recent 21st edition of the FirstGlance Film Festival Philadelphia for her role in the short film Eve. The film was nominated in for Best Actress, Best Director, Best Editing, Best Sound Design and B...

London Korean Film Festival to Open with MICROHABITAT

The London Korean Film Festival will be back next month with a bumper program featuring over 50 titles. Opening this year’s LKFF on November 1 will be JEON Go-woon’s festival hit Microhabitat (2017) while Malene CHOI’s Danish-Korean co-production The Return ha...

Awards Winners Announced for MSFF 2018

The Mise-en-scène Short Film Festival (MSFF) held its 17th edition this year from June 28 to July 4, once again seeking out the next generation of voices in the Korean film industry. Winners were announced for each festival’s five main sections, however, unlik...

CJ Group to Host Short Film Festival In Vietnam

The CJ Group is set to host a short film festival in Vietnam in November for the first time. It will be the Korean conglomerate’s second overseas film festival, following a previous event held in China. The event, which will be known as the ‘Korean-Vietnamese ...

JANG Joon-hwan to Preside over 17th Mise-en-scène Short Film Festival Jury

The jury for this year’s 17th Mise-en-scène Short Film Festival has been set with 1987: When the Day Comes (2017) director JANG Joon-hwan selected as the jury president while many other top Korean film directors have also been invited to take part. In total, t...

JO Jung-suk and Yoon-a Cast for New Action Disaster Movie EXIT

JO Jung-suk and Yoon-a will star in a disaster-action movie. “Genius chameleon actor JO Jung-suk and Yoon-a, rising actresses of Confidential Assignment (2017), are cast for EXIT (working title)”, announced the production company Filmmaker R & K and the di...

Korean Shorts Head to Slamdance Film Festival

A pair of Korean shorts have made the cut for next year’s Slamdance Film Festival which will be held at the same time as the Sundance Film Festival in January. The Troubled Troubadour, from directors Forest Ian Etsler and Sébastien Simon, and KIM Seung-hee’s T...

KIM Sang-kyung, KIM Gang-woo and KIM Hee-ae Make It Through LOST NIGHT

Actors KIM Sang-kyung, KIM Gang-woo and KIM Hee-ae wrapped three months of production for the incoming thriller Lost Night (working title) on August 31st. The project marks the feature debut of director LEE Chang-hee. Lost Night concerns a woman’s body that go...

Starring KIM Hee-ae and KIM Sang-kyung, THE BODY Cranks In

Thriller The Body (W/T) has cranked in June 12th, which starring veteran actors such as KIM Hee-ae, KIM Sang-kyung and KIM Gang-woo. The thriller is a remake of Spanish film The Body, directed by Oriol Paulo and will chase the truth about the missing body of a...