SOUP AND IDEOLOGY and AFTERNOON LANDSCAPE Invited to Yamagata

Korean Documentaries on Show at Prestigious Japanese Documentary Film Festival Soup and IdeologyThis year’s edition of the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival (YIDFF), one of the top documentary film events in the world, has invited a pair of Kore...

JANG Joon-hwan to Preside over 17th Mise-en-scène Short Film Festival Jury

The jury for this year’s 17th Mise-en-scène Short Film Festival has been set with 1987: When the Day Comes (2017) director JANG Joon-hwan selected as the jury president while many other top Korean film directors have also been invited to take part. In total, t...

Asian Project Market (APM) Accepts Project Submissions until June 30th

Registration is available online at the APM official website Asia’s biggest film project market, Asian Project Market (APM), formerly Pusan Promotion Plan, is accepting project submissions until June 30th. Ranging from big-scale commercial films to low-budge...

Submissions for the Toronto Korean Film Festival Begin

To be held between June 6th and 8th under the theme of ‘Ups and Downs of Korean Peninsula’ The Toronto Korean Film Festival, a culture event established by young Koreans in Canada to make Korean culture widely known, started collecting short films for the co...

OUR HOMELAND Director YANG Yong-hi Attends GV in Korea

“Most of them actually happened” YANG Yong-hi, the second generation of a North Korean family in Japan, and who previously directed documentaries Dear Pyongyang and Goodbe, Pyongyang, came to Korean and attended the GV for Our Homeland. The film, starring th...