KANGYU Ga-ram is a co-founder of the Alternative Cultural Club, Girls Play Girls. KANGYU was the assistant director and film distributor for the feature-film documentary <The Girl Princes>. The director was awarded the 3rd DMZ International Documentary Film Festival – Best Korean Documentary Award for her film <My Father’s House>, which depicts familyism and real estate problems prevalent in Korean society in 2011. In 2013, she collaborated with female documen...More
KANGYU Ga-ram is a co-founder of the Alternative Cultural Club, Girls Play Girls. KANGYU was the assistant director and film distributor for the feature-film documentary <The Girl Princes>. The director was awarded the 3rd DMZ International Documentary Film Festival – Best Korean Documentary Award for her film <My Father’s House>, which depicts familyism and real estate problems prevalent in Korean society in 2011. In 2013, she collaborated with female documentary filmmakers for a joint production of the feature-length documentary <Let’s Dance>, a film about women’s abortion. She also finished her production of <Itaewon>, a feature-length documentary about the lives of women who have been living in a U.S. military town and the changes they go through, in 2016.Less
The Hong Kong Arts Centre is set to present a series of screenings of independent films by Korean women, starting next month in Hong Kong. Co-presented by the DMZ International Documentary Film Festival and the Seoul Independent Film Festival, ‘Women Direct. Korean Indies!’ will feature 13 Korean films and screenings will take place from December 12 to May 25 next year in the Louis Koo Cinema and ...
Documentary KIM-GUN (2018) won the Grand Prize at this year’s 7th Wildflower Film Awards, which took place in Central Seoul on May 22 while February was the most awarded film with a total of three prizes. A total of 15 awards were handed out during the event, which celebrates Korea’s vibrant low-budget film scene, and which was the first major film gathering to take place in the country since the ...
The Seoul Independent Documentary Film Festival (SIDOF) has announced the 23 finalists for this year’s Korean feature and short films competition. 10 documentaries will vie for awards in the feature section, with 13 to be featured in the competitive short film program. The finalists were whittled down from 92 submissions, spanning 24 features and 68 short films, which were received between Novembe...
The 19th edition of the SEOUL International Women’s Film Festival (SIWFF) kicked off on June 1st under the catchphrase ‘See the World through Women’s Eyes!’. Held every year since 1997, and established to promote the development of the world’s women’s film industry, expand the international female cineaste network and to discover and fund international female filmmakers, SIWFF has cemented its rep...
DMZ International Documentary Film Festival (DMZ Docs) has built its identity based on the two notions of DMZ and documentary and is now in its 8th edition this year. DMZ and Korea, the only divided country in the world, have become places where you are reminded of the importance and necessity of peace, communication, and life, through diverse documentaries from all over the world, that show the p...
DMZ International Documentary Film Festival(DMZ Docs) has built its identity based on the two notions of DMZ and documentary, and is now in its 8th edition this year. DMZ and Korea, the only divided country in the world, have become places where you are reminded of the importance and necessity of peace, communication and life, through diverse documentaries from all over the world, that show the po...