WINTER’S NIGHT and SEO Young-hwa Awarded in Tallinn

JANG Woo-jin’s new arthouse film Winter’s Night has added to its awards haul after winning a pair of prizes at the Black Nights Film Festival in Tallinn. The film earned the Best Director and Best Actress Award for SEO Young-hwa at the festival which concluded...

Special Jury Prize for JANG Woo-jin at Nantes

JANG Woo-jin’s third film Winter’s Night, which debuted as one of this year’s feature-length Jeonju Cinema Projects at the Jeonju International Film Festival in the spring, has picked up the Special Jury Prize from the 40th edition of the Festival of the Three...

WINTER’S NIGHT Leads Korean Selection at Black Nights Film Festival

The 22nd edition of the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (POFF) kicked off in Estonia on November 16 and features five films from South Korea this year. Among those are JANG Woo-jin’s Winter’s Night in Official Selection and LEE Chang-dong’s well-traveled Bu...

JIFF Expands to 5 Jeonju Cinema Projects in 2018

The Jeonju International Film Festival (JIFF) announced its 2018 Jeonju Cinema Projects last month, which have been expanded this year to include five titles, as opposed to the trios that have been featured in earlier editions. This year’s JCP filmmakers will ...

AUTUMN, AUTUMN Invited to New York

Following its debut at the Busan International Film Festival last year and its recent invitation to the recently concluded 67th Berlin International Film Festival, JANG Woo-jin’s sophomore indie drama Autumn, Autumn will have its North American debut next mont...

AUTUMN, AUTUMN Selected for Berlinale Forum

JANG Woo-jin’s second feature film Autumn, Autumn, has been selected for the Forum section of this year’s Berlin International Film Festival. The film joins HONG Sang-soo’s On the Beach Alone at Night and the documentary Becoming Who I Was in the lineup of the...

THE SHAMELESS Added to Shanghai Competition

SIFF Project Features 3 China/Korea Pitches The Shanghai International Film Festival has announced the full lineup of contestants for its signature Golden Goblet competition, which will now see recent Cannes entry The Shameless vie for the prize alongside pre...

SALUT D’AMOUR Up for Shanghai’s Golden Goblet

Dankook Pair Compete in Asian New Talent A trio of Korean films has been selected to compete at next month’s Shanghai International Film Festival. Going into its 18th edition, the Chinese fest has invited KANG Je-gyu’s drama Salut d’Amour to compete for its m...

Mirovision to Handle World Sale on Dankook Graduate School Titles

Student Features on the World Stage Korean foreign sales outfit Mirovision has signed a deal with the Dankook Graduate School of Cinematic Content (DGC) to handle world sales on the school’s growing slate of student works. Much like the Korean Academy of Film ...

END OF WINTER Invited to Berlinale’s Forum Section

International Premiere for Dankook University Feature KIM Dae-hwan’s End of Winter has been invited to take part in the Berlin International Film Festival’s Forum section. This screening will be its international premiere, following its debut in the Busan Int...