AFTER MY DEATH and LAST CHILD Lead Wildflower Nominees
Mar 15, 2019
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by Pierce Conran
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Nominations Announced for 6th Edition of Leading Korean Indie Film Awards
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 SHIN Dong-seok’s Last Child (2018), which received six nominations apiece and initially premiered together in the New Currents competition of the Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) in 2017. Not far behind with five nominations was JEON Go-woon’s Microhabitat (2018).
Joining those three prolific nominees in the seven-film Best Director for Narrative Film Award category are Hong Sangsoo’s Grass (2018) and O Muel’s Eyelids (2018), which each have three nominations overall, and ZHANG Lu’s Ode to the Goose (2018) and LEE Dong-eun’s Mothers (2018), both with a pair of nominations.