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- THE ODD FAMILY: ZOMBIE ON SALE Books Valentine’s Day Release
- Korean horror-comedy The Odd Family: Zombie On Sale will hit screens on February 14. Fromnew director LEE Min-jae, the film stars KIM Nam-gil (The Shameless, 2015), UHM Ji-won (MISSING, 2016), JUNG Jae-young (Right Now, Wrong Then, 2015), LEE Su-gyeong (Heart Blackened, 2017), JUNG Ga-ram (The Poet ...
- by Pierce Conran / Jan 21, 2019
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- London Korean Film Festival to Open with MICROHABITAT
- The London Korean Film Festival will be back next month with a bumper program featuring over 50 titles. Opening this year’s LKFF on November 1 will be JEON Go-woon’s festival hit Microhabitat (2017) while Malene CHOI’s Danish-Korean co-production The Return has been set as the closing film. This yea...
- by Pierce Conran / Oct 25, 2018
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- LAST CHILD and THE POET AND THE BOY Headed to Seattle
- This month’s 44th Seattle International Film Festival will welcome a pair of new Korean independent films when it opens on May 17th. SHIN Dong-seok’s Last Child (2017) and KIM Yang-hee’sThe Poet and The Boy(2017) will be among the 433 films screening at SIFF this year. SHIN’s work, his first feature...
- by Pierce Conran / May 10, 2018
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- Wildflower Film Awards Announces Nominations for 5th Anniversary
- The Wildflower Film Awards Korea will return for their 5th edition on April 12. Ahead of the ceremony the organizers have announced the nominees for this year’s awards, which include a new category for Best Music. The Wildflower Awards, founded by Korean film critic Darcy Paquet and co-organized by ...
- by Pierce Conran / Apr 09, 2018
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- JIFF Expands to 5 Jeonju Cinema Projects in 2018
- The Jeonju International Film Festival (JIFF) announced its 2018 Jeonju Cinema Projects last month, which have been expanded this year to include five titles, as opposed to the trios that have been featured in earlier editions. This year’s JCP filmmakers will be the Chilean directors Alejandro Ferná...
- by Pierce Conran / Feb 05, 2018
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- Göteborg Film Festival Invites Korean Quintet
- The Göteborg Film Festival will return on January 26 for its 41st edition, which will feature five films from Korea. Two among those, JEON Go-woon’s Microhabitat(2017) and the documentary Letters (2017) by Marte Vold and Jero YUN, will screen in the Ingmar Bergman Competition (for international debu...
- by Pierce Conran / Jan 15, 2018
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- THE OUTLAWS’ JANG Won-seok Wins Producers Guild of Korea Prize
- The Producers Guild of Korea (PGK) has awarded its Producer of the Year Award to JANG Won-seokof BA Entertainment, the man behind this year’s runway Chuseok hit THE OUTLAWS. The same award went to Train to Busan’s LEE Dong-ha in 2016. The PGK held its 10th annual awards ceremony on December 14th, al...
- by Pierce Conran / Jan 04, 2018
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- YANG Ik-june Nominated for Best Actor at Mainichi Film Awards
- Korean actor and filmmaker YANG Ik-june has been nominated for the Best Actor Award at the 72nd Mainichi Film Awards, one of the top film industry awards shows in Japan. He was nominated for his role in the film Wilderness, along with his co-star SUDA Masaki. From director KISHI Yoshiyuki, the film ...
- by Pierce Conran / Dec 26, 2017
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- Top Prize at Women in Film Korea Goes to NA Moon-hee
- Adding to her growing collection of trophies this awards season, actress NA Moon-hee has earned the top prize from this year’s Women in Film Korea Awards for her part in the drama I Can Speak. The event, which was hosted by Our Love Story star LEE Sang-hee (as well as NA’s co-star in I Can Speak), t...
- by Pierce Conran / Dec 15, 2017
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- RYU Jun-yeol Joins KONG Hyo-jin in BBAENGBAN
- Following his female-led gangster saga Coin Locker Girl (2015), director HAN Jun-hee is putting the final touches on the cast of his next project, the cop thriller Bbaengban (Korean title). Joining the previously announced KONG Hyo-jin in the lead is rising superstar RYU Jun-yeol, while the addition...
- by Pierce Conran / Dec 12, 2017