KKUM Picks Up Nelvana Grand Prize at Ottawa International Animation Festival

Animation filmmaker KIM Kang-min has earned the Nelvana Grand Prize for Independent Short at the Ottawa International Animation Festival (OIAF) with his short film KKUM. He is the first Korean filmmaker to take the top prize at OIAF, which is considered one of...

KIM Kang-min Returns to Sundance with JEOM

3rd Park City Invite for Animated Short Director Director KIM Kang-min will return to Park City this month after scoring his third Sundance Film Festival invite for his latest animated short film Jeom. The US-Korea co-production is the only Korean film invited...

Animafest Zagreb Gifts Special Award to DEER FLOWER

KIM Kang-min Honored in Croatia KIM Kang-min’s short animation title Deer Flower picked up a special award at the 26th edition of the World Festival of Animated Film – Animafest Zagreb, which ran over June 6-11. This year’s Grand Prize in Zagreb went to Phil ...

KARAOKE CRAZIES to Premiere at SXSW

Austin Fest also Takes DEER FLOWER The SXSW Film Festival, which gets underway on March 11th, will feature the world premiere of Karaoke Crazies in its ‘Visions’ lineup. The festival will also be showing KIM Kang-min’s short Deer Flower in ‘Animated Shorts’. ...

Five Korean films invited to the 66th Edinburgh International Film Festival

The 66th Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF; June 20 - July 1, 2012) has announced its complete program, which includes three Korean features and two shorts. JANG Kun-jae’s <Sleepless Night> and YEUN Sang-ho’s <The King of Pigs> will scre...