A pair of Korean short films have been invited to screen at this year’s South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival. Acclaimed filmmaker KIM Kang-min’s new animation KKUM (2020) will feature in the Animated Shorts Competition while the VR film Poison, by directors Meesol YI and Cooper Sanghyun YOO has been selected for the Virtual Cinema Competition. Following the award-winning shorts Deer Flower (201...
KKUM and AVA FROM MY CLASS to Screen in Park City The yearly film festival calendar will be kicking off once more with the Sundance Film Festival and while this virtual edition is bound to be a very different kind of event in the midst of the global pandemic, a number of Korean shorts have made it into the lineup of the prestigious fest. The animated shorts KKUM from KIM Kang-min and Sasha LEE’s ...
JEONG Da-hee’s animated short Movements, which debuted in the Directors’ Fortnight sidebar at the Cannes Film Festival this year, has picked up the Silver Spike award in the short film competition from the Valladolid International Film Festival in Spain. Movementsis a film that explores the relationship between the different elements of the worlds, each always moving together but at different spee...