TOPOGRAPHY OF SOLITUDE Tops 22nd Asian Project Market

The 22nd edition of the Asian Project Market (APM), held in conjunction with the Asian Film Market during the Busan International Film Festival, which this year celebrates its 24th edition, gave its top prize to the Japanese project Topography of Solitude. Fro...

SWING KIDS and BEAUTIFUL DAYS to Bookend Florence Korean Film Festival

The Florence Korean Film Fest 2019, which will take place from March 21st to the 29th, has revealed this year’s lineup. Opening the program will be KANG Hyoung-cheol’s Korean War-era tap dance musical war drama Swing Kids, while Jero YUN’s Beautiful Days, the ...

PARK So-dam, D.O., PARK Cheol-min to Voice Animation

LEAFIE Director Returns with THE UNDERDOG The main voice cast has been locked in for the upcoming animation The Underdog. New star PARK So-dam, D.O. (a.k.a. DOH Kyung-soo), a member of the K-pop group EXO, and veteran character actor PARK Cheol-min will provi...

Best Film for A MIDSUMMER’S FANTASIA at Asiatica Film Mediale

My Love, Don't Cross That River Also Awarded at Italian Film Festival JANG Kun-jae’s third feature A Midsummer’s Fantasia won the Jury Prize for Best Film at the 16th Asiatica Film Mediale - Encounters with Asian Cinema Festival in Rome, Italy. The critic...

HIDE AND SEEK Director Wraps New Horror

JANGSAN TIGER with YUM Jung-ah Eyes Summer 2016 Release On the heels of his 2013 summer hit Hide and Seek, director HUH Jung is preparing his next feature, the horror Jangsan Tiger (transliterated title), which completed principal photography earlier this mon...

THE SHAMELESS Triumphs at the 24th Buil Film Awards

On the second night of the 20th Busan International Film Festival, stars arrived at the Grand Hotel in Haeundae for the 24th Buil Film Awards. The oldest awards show in Korea, the Buil Film Awards kicked off in 1958 and were discontinued in 1973 before being r...

JO Jung-suk and DOH Kyung-soo to Play Brothers in OLDER BROTHER

The family Drama Will Be Directed by Barefoot Ki-Bong Director KWON Soo-kyung Young stars JO Jung-suk and DOH Kyung-soo co-star in new family drama Older Brother (Korean title). It is a story about two brothers who cohabit as the swindling older brother (JO) ...

Myung Films Reminisces about 20 Years' Glory

Retrospective Invites Key Korean Film Figures Established by husband and wife partners Jamie SHIM and LEE Eun twenty years ago, production house Myung Films has represented the Korean cinema by discovering and producing key directors and their features. In ce...

PURE LOVE Starts Production with Rising Stars in Lead

K-pop Idol EXO’s DO Kyung-soo and TV Series Heroine KIM So-hyun to Star Director LEE Eun-hee’s melodrama Pure Love started production in Goheung, Jeon-nam Province on June 22. The director’s debut feature will star teen actress KIM So-hyun, who is best k...

Mise-en-scène Short Film Festival Kicks off in Seoul

Former Festival Winners Include Berlinale-winning director NA Young-kil (Hosanna)RYOO Seung-wan and MOON So-ri-directed Short Films to Receive Special Screenings The 14th Mise-en-scène Short Film Festival opened Thursday (25 June) at Megabox with opening scr...