The Korean Film Council Hosted ‘K-Movie Night JEONJU 2022’ at Endemic Film Festival Successfully

At 8 p.m. on April 29, the Jeonju Daesaseup Festival Center was filled with more than 200 cineastes who visited the ‘K-Movie Night JEONJU 2022’ hosted by the Korean Film Council (KOFIC, Chairperson Park Kiyong). The event was designed to form a close network b...

Jeonju Film Festival to Stage Taeheung Film Company Retrospective

Chihwhaseon (2002)In addition to hosting the premieres of independent works from Korea and around the world, this year’s upcoming 23rd edition of the Jeonju International Film Festival will also stage an eight-film retrospective dedicated to the influential Ta...

JEONJU International Film Festival Eyes Physical Event and Full Program for 23rd Edition

Following a pair of pandemic editions that saw it field a smaller than usual lineup, the JEONJU International Film Festival (JIFF) is set to return with a full program and physical event this year for its upcoming 23rd edition, scheduled to take place from Apr...

KidariStudio and KIDARI ENT Merge to Form New Content Studio

Waiting for Rain (2021)KidariStudio and KIDARI ENT have merged and officially launched a content production company. The merged outfit will seek to exploit its extensive IP webtoon and film library to produce content that can be scaled out in franchises and/or...

Celebrated Cinematographer Hong Kyoungpyo Joins Lee Sangil’s THE WANDERING MOON

PARASITE Director of Photography Filming Japanese ProjectAcclaimed cinematographer Hong Kyoungpyo has signed on to shoot the upcoming Japanese film The Wandering Moon for director Lee Sangil, his first full international project.This marks Hong’s second collab...

PARASITE Wins Outstanding Editing at HPA Awards

Seasoned editor YANG Jin-mo won the Outstanding Editing - Theatrical Feature Award from this year’s Hollywood Professional Association (HPA) Awards for his work on BONG Joon-ho’sPARASITE(2019). The Hollywood Professional Association is a trade organization tha...

LEE Jung-hyun to Push Herself to the LIMIT

LEE Jung-hyun has signed on to appear in the kidnap-themed crime thriller Limit (literal title), the new film from The Spy: Undercover Operation (2013) director LEE Seung-jun. The star will play police officer So-eun who goes undercover to help parents locate ...

Lincoln Center and Subway Cinema to Present Korean Film Retrospective in New York

‘Relentless Invention: New Korean Cinema, 1996–2003’, a new program being jointly staged by Film at Lincoln Center and Subway Cinema, in association with the Korean Cultural Center New York, will present a broad array of Korean classics to viewers in New York ...

YIM Soon-rye and HONG Kyeong-pyo Join Academy of Motion Pictures, Arts and Sciences

The Academy of Motion Pictures, Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) has swelled its ranks by adding 842 new members this year. Among the new roster of film industry professionals, who are now eligible to vote in the Academy Awards, are nine people from the Korean film i...

HA Ji-won Mulling Big Screen Return in COLLATERAL

Actress HA Ji-won is mulling a return to the big screen with the project Collateral (translated title), a JK Films production which will mark the sophomore work of director KANG Dae-gyu. The male lead will be played by veteran character actor SUNG Dong-il. Col...