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- HOUSE OF HUMMINGBIRD Triumphs at 29th Buil Film Awards
- This year’s 29th Buil Film Awards took place as usual during the first weekend of the Busan International Film Festival. KIM Bora’s House of Hummingbird (2018), which debuted at the festival two years earlier, returned to Busan to claim the Best Film Award at the event, which was staged by the Busan...
- by Pierce Conran / Nov 03, 2020
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- HOUSE OF HUMMINGBIRD Director Picks Sci-Fi Adaptation as Sophomore Project
- KIM Bora, the director of the breakout indie sensation House of Hummingbird (2018), has signed on to her sophomore feature-length project. Production company Lezhin Studios announced last week that the award-winning director will adapt the sci-fi story ‘Spectrum’ from KIM Cho-yeob’s short story coll...
- by Pierce Conran / Oct 06, 2020
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- 13th Hungary Korean Film Festival to be Held Next Month
- The Hungary Korean Film will be held from September 4 to 10 in the Corvin Cinema in Budapest, Hungary. The festival, which is celebrating its 13th anniversary this year, will open with the film that was the most talked-about title in Korea last year, LEE Byoung-heon’s Extreme Job. The Hungary Korean...
- by HWANG Hee-yun / Aug 28, 2020
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- PARASITE Tops Grand Bell and BaekSang Arts Awards
- The 56th editions of both the Grand Bell Film Awards and the BaekSang Arts Awards were held in quick succession earlier this month, on the 3rd and 5th, both without an audience for the first time, owing to public health concerns during the COVID-19 Pandemic. BONG Joon-ho’s Parasite (2019) won the Be...
- by Pierce Conran / Jun 16, 2020
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- Kino Lorber to Give HOUSE OF HUMMINGBIRD Virtual Theatrical Release in North America
- KIM Bora’s sensational debut House of Hummingbird, which has blazed a trail on the festival circuit ever since its launch at the Busan International Film Festival in October, 2018, will be getting a virtual theatrical release in North America through Kino Lorber’s Kino Marquee streaming platform, wh...
- by Pierce Conran / Jun 12, 2020
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- KIM-GUN Triumphs at 7th Wildflower Film Awards
- 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-bud...
- by Pierce Conran / Jun 04, 2020
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- 56th Baeksang Arts Awards to Take Place without Audience on June 5
- Following a delay owing to the current pandemic, the 56th edition of the Baeksang Arts Awards are now scheduled to take place on June 5 in the KINTEX center in Ilsan to the West of Seoul, thought they will take place without a live audience. The nominees for Best Film this year are BONG Joon-ho’s Pa...
- by Pierce Conran / May 22, 2020
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- Korean Film Magazine Cine 21 Publishes Top 10 for 2019
- Influential Korean film magazine Cine21 has revealed its top 10 films for 2019. While the Korean film exhibition sector reached a new box office high, the magazine’s critics largely favored indie films in their end-of-year round-up, with only three commercial titles entering the list, one of which w...
- by Pierce Conran / Jan 03, 2020
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- HOUSE OF HUMMINGBRID Tops 6th Korean Film Producers Association Awards
- KIM Bora’s sensational debut film, the indie drama House of Hummingbird (2018), has come away with the top prize, the Best Film Award, from this year’s 6th Korean Film Producers Association Awards. BONG Joon-ho was awarded Best Director for his comedy-drama satire Parasite, which also earned prizes ...
- by Pierce Conran / Dec 19, 2019
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- PARASITE Takes Best Feature Film at 13th Asian Pacific Screen Awards
- Director BONG Joon-ho has triumphed once again with his latest film Parasite, which has earned the Best Feature Film Award from this year’s 13th Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSAs). BONG’s first fully Korean-language work in ten years, Parasite began its sensational awards and box office run when it ...
- by Pierce Conran / Dec 06, 2019
