PARASITE Earns 5 Prizes at Blue Dragon Film Awards

BONG Joon-ho’s Parasite was the big winner at the issue of this year’s 40th Blue Dragon Film Awards, where it picked up five prizes, including Best Film, Best Director, Best Actress (JO Yeo-jeong), Best Supporting Actress (LEE Jung-eun) and Best Production Des...

THE FORTRESS Tops Korean Film Producers Association Awards

The Korean Film Producers Association (KFPA) handed their top prize this year to the period siege drama The Fortress, from director HWANG Dong-hyuk. HWANG’s film also took the prizes for Best Editing (NAM Na-young) and Best Sound for CHOI Tae-young, who previo...

Korean Cinema Dominates Asian Film Awards

Korea picked up 7 awards at this year’s Asian Film Awards held Monday the 21st of March in Hong Kong. Most notably was previous Best Film and Best Director winner LEE Chang-dong who again, picked up the Best Director Award for <Poetry> (2010). The film ...