Actress So-yi Wields Megaphone for MY EGGS

Actress and musician So-yi has gone behind the camera to direct the short film My Eggs (literal title), based on her own script. So-yi also stars in the film, described as a comedy-drama about an unmarried woman who freezes her eggs. Also appearing in the shor...

LEE Dong-eun Wraps Third Feature YOU AND ME

Director LEE Dong-eun has completed production on his third film You and Me (translated title). The drama follows quickly on the heels of his first two films In Between Seasonsand Mothers. Production wrapped up on December 7. You and Me concerns a family of tw...

BURNING Takes Home Top Grand Bell Award

The 55th Grand Bell (Daejong) Film Awards took place in Seoul on the evening of October 22, where LEE Chang-dong’s latest critically acclaimed work Burning, which premiered in competition at the Cannes Film Festival, was handed the Best Film Prize. This year’s...

Filmfest München Invites Five Korean Indies

Filmfest München invited five feature films works from Korea for this year’s edition, which kicked off on June 28 and ran until July 7. Among the selected titles were LEE Chang-dong’s BURNING, LEE Kwang-kuk’s A Tiger in Winter (2017), LEE Hwan’s Park Hwa-young...

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 ...

CGV ARTHOUSE Filmmaker-in-Residence Project Awards funding to 3 Indie Korean Films

On December 21, CGV ARTHOUSE announced that CHO Hyunhoon’s Jane, LEE Seung-moon’s documentary Dance sports Girls, and LIM Tea-gue’s The Seeds of Violence would each receive 5 million Korean won as part of its Korean Filmmaker-in-Residence Project. In addition,...

Mar Del Plata Stages Korean Focus

The Mar Del Plata International Film Festival once again features Korea prominently at this year’s 32nd edition with a special program being devoted to the country’s cinema. In all, 11 Korean films screen at the event, which kicked off on Friday, November 17th...

Jeonju Lands on 25 Coolest Film Festivals List

MovieMaker Magazine included the Jeonju International Film Festival (JIFF) in its recent ‘The 25 Coolest Film Festivals in the World’ feature. The unranked list from the influential filmmaking publication, known as the world’s leading independent filmmaking ma...

RIFLE and THE SEEDS OF VIOLENCE Triumph in Jeonju

Brazilian film Rifle from director Davi Pretto was crowned the Grand Prize winner in the International Competition of this year’s 18th edition of the Jeonju International Film Festival (JIFF) on May 3rd. Topping the Korean Competition was LIM Tea-gue’s The See...