CHANG Mi-hee Was Commissioned to Be a Vice Chairwoman of BiFan’s Organizing Committee

The Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (BiFan) elected actress CHANG Mi-hee as Vice Chairwoman of the Organizing Committee at the 7th regular general meeting of the organizing committee on February 22nd. Turning 21st edition this year, BiFan has bui...

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...

15th Women in Film Korea 2014 Festival Held

YUM Jung-ah, CHUN Woo-hee, July JUNG Among Awardees The 15th Women in Film Korea 2014 Festival was held on the 4th of December. The event took place at CineCode Sonje at 7:30pm, moderated by young actress GO A-ra. Organized by Women in Film Korea and supporte...

LEE Eun, the CEO of Myung Films, Will Lead the Korean Film Producers Association

Elected as the next chairman of the KFPA LEE Eun, the CEO of Myung Films, was appointed as the next chairman of the Korean Film Producers Association (KFPA). KFPA announced on February that they held the 20th regular general meeting on January 30th, where th...

Cinematheque Friends Film Festival 2013 Takes Place

25 Films Including Ones Chosen by 15 Friends to Screen Cinematheque Friends Film Festival 2013 co-hosted by the Korean Association of Cinematheques, the Venice Biennale Foundation and Italian Cultural Center in Korea is going to be held. At the festival held...

Hong Sang-soo tops Cine21’s picks of the year

South Korea’s leading film and entertainment magazine Cine21 has picked HONG Sang-soo’s<The Day He Arrives> as the Best Film of 2011. In their annual survey, the magazine with its 33 journalists and critics also picked Hong as the Best Director of the Y...

Leafie flies to North American theaters

Korea’s highest grossing feature animation <Leafie: a Hen Into the Wild> has sold to Toronto-based 108 Media Group for all English-language rights. Produced by leading production company Myung Films(The President’s Last Bang) and animation studio Odolt...

Kim starts film grad school at Dankook Univ.

Busan International Film Festival’s founding and honorary director KIM Dong-ho is launching a graduate school specializing in film contents at Dankook University in South Korea. Starting in the first semester of 2012 which starts in March, the graduate school...

The Front Line wins big at Korean Critics Awards

Director JANG Hun’s <The Front Line> was the big winner at the 31st Korean Association of Film Critics (KAFC) Awards. The ceremony was held at the Seoul Press Center on the evening of Friday, Nov. 11. South Korea’s submission to the Academy Awards best ...