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...

BEASTS CLAWING AT STRAWS Invited to IFFR Tiger Competition

The new Korean thriller Beast Clawing at Straws from debut director KIM Yong-hoon will have its world premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in the Tiger Competition. Centering around a Louis Vuitton bag filled with cash, the film stars JEON Do-...

PARK Jung-bum Awarded Special Jury Prize at Locarno

PARK Jung-bum’s third film Height of the Wave has picked up the Special Jury Prize in competition at the 72nd Locarno International Film Festival. The film stars LEE Seung-yeon (House of Hummingbird) as a police officer who is restationed to an out-of-the-way ...

WINTER’S NIGHT, MAGGIE and THE SPY GONE NORTH Invited to Rotterdam

The International Rotterdam Film Festival (IFFR), which kicked off on January 23, has invited three Korean films to its program this year, YI Ok-seop’s Maggie (2018), YOON Jong-bin’s The Spy Gone North (2018) and JANG Woo-jin’s Winter’s Night (2018). Screening...

Busan Sets New Currents Jury for 20th Edition

Sylvia CHANG Heads International Delegation Taiwanese actress and filmmaker Sylvia CHANG has been tapped to preside over the jury of the Busan International Film Festival’s signature New Currents competition section. CHANG, director of 20 30 40 (2004), recent...

NAFF Reveals This Year’s It Project Participants

BiFan Project Market Takes Shape for 2015 The Network of Asian Fantastic Films (NAFF) announced its 2015 ‘It Project’ this morning, which will include 21 participants from 12 countries. The projects, seven of which hail from Korea, were chosen from 171 submi...

PARK Jung-bum Receives Jury Award in Florence

ALIVE Takes Home a Trophy from Italy PARK Jung-bum’s Alive which has been travelling around the world to various international film festivals has added another trophy to its shelf. At the 13th Florence Korea Film Festival which was held from March 20th until ...

44th Rotterdam Grabs Korean Films for Bright Future and Signals

ALIVE, MADE IN CHINA and A MATTER OF INTERPRETATION Join Lineup LEE Kwang-kuk’s A Matter of Interpretation and PARK Jung-bum’s Alive have been invited to the International Film Festival Rotterdam’s Bright Future Section. The 44th edition of the film festival ...

ALIVE Wins Special Mention at SGIFF Silver Screen Awards

Another Award for Director and Actor PARK Jung-bum At the 25th Singapore International Film Festival, the Silver Screen Awards recognized PARK Jung-bum’s Alive by handing him the Special Mention Award. The awards took place on the 13th (local time), and the f...

Best Actor for ALIVE’s PARK Jung-bum in Mar Del Plata

Indie Drama Also Picks Up Obra Cine Award PARK Jung-bum has been awarded the Silver Astor for Best Actor at Argentina’s Mar Del Plata International Film Festival for his role in Alive, which he also directed. Beyond the official awards, PARK’s film also picked...