Korean-born producer CHOI Mi-ae majored in Film and Theatre at Dongguk University in Seoul and earned an MA degree in Film & Theatre at Dongguk’s Graduate School. She has been working in Treefilm since 2008 and has produced director JEON Kyu-whan’s Town Trilogy, including <Mozart Town> (2008), <Animal Town> (2009) and <Dance Town> (2010). The three socially conscience films made notable achievements by receiving awards from the film festival circuit,...More

Korean-born producer CHOI Mi-ae majored in Film and Theatre at Dongguk University in Seoul and earned an MA degree in Film & Theatre at Dongguk’s Graduate School. She has been working in Treefilm since 2008 and has produced director JEON Kyu-whan’s Town Trilogy, including <Mozart Town> (2008), <Animal Town> (2009) and <Dance Town> (2010). The three socially conscience films made notable achievements by receiving awards from the film festival circuit, and afforded JEON international recognition. In recent years CHOI has pitched at international markets with such film as <From Seoul to Varanasi>, a melodrama partly set in India. JEON’s fifth feature film <The Weight> won the Queer Lion Award at the Venice International Film Festival in 2012. In terms of productivity, no one compares to JEON and CHOI. Her latest films include <My Boy>, a story of a mother and her son who has a disease, and <The Silent Man>, a thriller set in a mountain. She is also working on a new global project titled <The Painter>, which will be the first Korea-Estonia co-production film, about a man working in a slaughterhouse who paints pictures.Less