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- 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 between overseas cineastes and Korean cin...
- by Park Hyejin / Apr 29, 2022
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- 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 Taeheung Film Company, which has been resp...
- by Pierce Conran / Mar 17, 2022
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- 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 April 28 to May 7.JIFF was the first major ...
- by Pierce Conran / Jan 25, 2022
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- 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 adapted to different markets in local l...
- by Pierce Conran / Jan 11, 2022
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- 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 collaboration with a Japanese filmmaker, after...
- by Pierce Conran / Aug 30, 2021
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- 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 that services the post-production community...
- by Pierce Conran / Dec 02, 2020
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- 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 their kidnapped child, and proceeds to f...
- by Pierce Conran / Apr 21, 2020
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- 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 from November 22 to December 4 this year...
- by Pierce Conran / Nov 08, 2019
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- 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 industry, including YIM Soon-rye, who bec...
- by Pierce Conran / Jul 12, 2019
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- 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. Collateral will follow a man with a loose m...
- by Pierce Conran / Feb 07, 2019