AFTER MY DEATH and LAST CHILD Lead Wildflower Nominees

The Wildflower Film Awards Korea are returning for their 6th edition next month, once again to be held at the Literature House Seoul on Namsan Mountain in the heart of the Korean capital. This year’s top nominees are KIM Ui-seok’s After My Death (2018) and SHI...

SWING KIDS and BEAUTIFUL DAYS to Bookend Florence Korean Film Festival

The Florence Korean Film Fest 2019, which will take place from March 21st to the 29th, has revealed this year’s lineup. Opening the program will be KANG Hyoung-cheol’s Korean War-era tap dance musical war drama Swing Kids, while Jero YUN’s Beautiful Days, the ...

HOUSE OF HUMMINGBIRD to Take Flight in Tribeca

KIM Bora’s acclaimed debut House of Hummingbird (2018) has added another prestigious festival selection to its achievements after being invited to the International Narrative Competition of this year’s Tribeca Film Festival in New York City. The indie drama ha...

UNDERDOG Becomes 1st Korean Film Invited to Tokyo Anima Award Festival

The Korean animation Underdog (2018), featuring the voices of DOH Kyung-soo and PARK So-dam, was invited to compete in the Tokyo Anime Award Festival. The LEE Choon-baek and OH Sung-yoon-directed film is the first Korean film to be invited to take part in the ...

Lotte Conquers Vietnamese Box Office with HAI PHUONG

Lotte Cultureworks (formerly Lotte Entertainment) has achieved a key breakthrough in the Vietnamese market with the successful release of their latest local Vietnamese production Hai Phuong, which has become the most successful R-rated film ever in the Southea...

SWING KIDS to Compete at Fribourg International Film Festival

The Fribourg International Film Festival, long a champion of Korean cinema, is staging an especially Korea-centric edition this year, which will include KANG Hyoung-chul’s Swing Kids in international competition. Director BONG Joon-ho was also invited to curat...

INNOCENT WITNESS Gets Summons from 9 Foreign Countries

According to distributor Lotte Entertainment, the legal drama Innocent Witness has sold distribution rights to nine overseas territories. From Punch (2011) director LEE Han, the film stars JUNG Woo-sung and KIM Hyang-gi. Lotte revealed that among the countries...

India’s Eros and Korea’s Say On Media Team/B&C Group Up for Period Drama

The Korean production companies Say On Media and B&C Group and the Mumbai-based Indian outfit Eros International are teaming up to co-produce both a feature film and web series that will be drawn from the life of Princess HEO Hwang-ok. Thought to have been...

LEE Chang-dong to Be Honored with Lifetime Achievement Award in Hong Kong

Director LEE Chang-dong is set to be presented with a lifetime achievement award at this year’s 13th Asian Film Awards, which will take place in Hong Kong, coinciding with the Hong Kong International Film Festival, on March 17. A novelist who turned his hand t...

Korean Horror 0.0MHz Secures May Release Slot

0.0MHz, 2019’s first Korean horror film, is set to hit theaters in May. Starring in the film, which is based on a webcomic by JANG Jak, are TV series names JUNG Eun-ji and LEE Sung-yeol. Though the Korean horror genre had fallen on hard times for several years...