END OF ANIMAL Remake on the Way

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Receives Funding from Screen Australia

An Australian remake of JO Sung-hee’s Korean Academy of Film Arts (KAFA) graduation project End of Animal is coming closer to realization after having won funding in the latest round of development funds from Screen Australia.

The post-apocalyptic drama, featuring a young, pregnant female protagonist, will largely follow the original’s plot but step up the scale and size of the cast compared with the low-budget film school original.

Shane Danielsen, the former director of the Edinburgh International Film Festival, is penning the film and has moved its location to the Australian desert. Eron Sheean is directing while Michael Wrenn and Paul YI, previously involved with the Busan International Film Festival, are on board to produce.

End of Animal premiered at the now-defunct Cinema Digital Seoul Festival (CinDi) back in 2010. Based on that film’s positive reception and the Cannes Cinefondation 3rd place award he received in 2009 for his short Don’t Step out of the House (also a KAFA project), JO's next project was the big-budget commercial film A Werewolf Boy, which accrued just over seven million admissions during its release late last year.

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