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- 2nd Atlanta Korean Film Festival Gears Up
- by Pierce Conran / Sep 05, 2013
- 21 Films to Reflect Diversity of Korean Film Industry
Atlanta will become the site of a large celebration of Korean film as the second edition of the Atlanta Korean Film Festival is due to take place later this month. 21 titles will be presented at the event, representing the breadth and scope of the Korean film industry.Opening the proceedings will be the upcoming costume drama The Face Reader. Directed by HAN Jae-rim and starring SONG Kang-ho, LEE Jung-jae, KIM Hye-soo and BAEK Yoon-shik, the period film is set to open in Korea on September 12th, just ahead of the Chuseok holiday season.The other 20 films on the program will be broken down into three categories. A special exhibition on the works of KIM Jee-woon will present A Tale of Two Sisters (2003), The Good, the Bad and the Weird (2008), I Saw the Devil (2010) and this year’s The Last Stand, his debut Hollywood feature.Special invitation films will include the independent films Eden, Innocent Blood, Maria, The Korean Bride and HONG Sangsoo’s HaHaHa (2010) as well as the commercial war film The Front Line (2010) and the period drama The Servant (2010).The rest of the program will be made up of a selection of recent Korean films. The lineup includes A Company Man, All About My Wife, Love 911, Miracle in Cell No. 7, New World, Pieta, Secretly Greatly, The Grant Heist, The Thieves and The Weight.The second annual Atlanta Korean Film Festival, which will take place in the cities of Atlanta, Duluth, Suwanee and Lagrange, will unspool from September 20th to 28th.
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