The 27th BIFF Confirmed the Jury Members for New Currents & Kim Jiseok Award

The 27th Busan International Film Festival (BIFF), which will be held for 10 days from October 5 (Wed), has announced this year’s jury members for the New Currents, the Asian Film Competition section, as well as the Kim Jiseok Award.The New Currents Awards is ...

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...

LA Mi-ran Takes on First Lead Role in GIRL COPS

Top character actress LA Mi-ran has signed on to the crime comedy Girl Cops (Korean title), which will mark her first leading role on the big screen. The film will make the sophomore directing outing of JUNG Da-won The project will follow an ex-detective who b...

MOON So-ri to Preside Over THE JUROR

MOON So-ri has signed on to star in the upcoming legal drama The Juror, which will be helmed by debut director HONG Seung-wan. While MOON has been active in the last few years, the project will mark her first leading role since Hong Sangsoo’s Hill of Freedom i...

MOON So-ri to Serve on Venice’s Orizzonti Jury

1st Korean Performer on Venice Jury Acclaimed actress MOON So-ri has been invited to participate as a juror at the Venice International Film Festival. The first Korean actor to receive such a distinction, MOON will serve on the Orizzonti section jury. Prior to...

The Warsaw Korean Film Festival 2015 Began on November 30th

Seven Latest Korean Films Introduced Warsaw, the capital of Poland, is featuring Korean films. Korean Film Council (KOFIC) is holding The Warsaw Korean Film Festival 2015 from November 30th to December 4th. Seven local films from blockbusters like Snowpiercer...

Special Screening for the 20th Anniversary of Director HONG Sang-soo’s Debut

Four Masters Special Screening’ of LEE Chang-dong, HONG Sang-soo, PARK Chan-wook and KORE-EDA Hirokazu Will Take Place around the Same Time Special screenings are holding to look back the world of HONG Sang-soo’s works before his 17th upcoming feature film Ri...

Korea-USA Co-production DEAD AGAIN Starts Production

A Horror Flick Co-directed by Korea’s KIM HAN Jung-ho and US director Dave SILBERMAN Korea-USA co-production Dead Again started production in Korea’s Gwangmyeong city on 8 August. The shooting took place in the Gwangmyeong Cave, where a 2014 Korean film Tunne...

Latest HONG Sang-soo Tapped for NYFF Main Slate

RIGHT NOW, WRONG THEN Heads to New York The New York Film Festival (NYFF) has invited HONG Sang-soo’s Right Now, Wrong Then to its upcoming 53rd edition as part of its 26-film main slate. This marks the eighth time that the auteur has had a film invited to NY...

HONG Sang-soo Wins Locarno’s Golden Leopard

RIGHT NOW, WRONG THEN’s JUNG Jae-young Deemed Best Actor HONG Sangsoo’s 17th film Right Now, Wrong Then has earned him the Golden Leopard at the 68th Locarno International Film Festival two years after his feature Our Sunhi won the Best Director prize (Silver...