Born in 1957, LEE Joon-dong is the producer of <Poetry> (2010), for which LEE Chang-dong won the Best Screenplay Award at the Cannes Film Festival. He co-produced the international joint projects <Never Forever> (2006) and <A Brand New Life> (2009). A younger brother of LEE Chang-dong, LEE started his filmmaking career as the production manager of the director’s third film <Oasis> (2002). Upon establishing Now Films, he produced the highly acclaimed...More

Born in 1957, LEE Joon-dong is the producer of <Poetry> (2010), for which LEE Chang-dong won the Best Screenplay Award at the Cannes Film Festival. He co-produced the international joint projects <Never Forever> (2006) and <A Brand New Life> (2009). A younger brother of LEE Chang-dong, LEE started his filmmaking career as the production manager of the director’s third film <Oasis> (2002). Upon establishing Now Films, he produced the highly acclaimed melodrama film, <My Mother, the Mermaid> (2004), which starred JEON Do-youn. He specializes in producing low/mid-budget art films, one of which being <Never Forever> (2006), directed by Korean-American woman director Gina KIM. The movie was a Korea-US joint project that used numerous US production staff members, and was screened at the Sundance Film Festival. In 2009, he collaborated with the French distribution company Diaphana Films in producing <A Brand New Life> by Ounie Lecomte. LEE is also actively working as a member of the Korean Film Producers Association (KFPA), seeking for an alternative model of production in the industry, which is largely eaten by conglomerates. He then gave <Save the Green Planet> director JANG Joon-hwan the chance to make his much anticipated sophomore feature, the action thriller <Hwayi: A Monster Boy> (2013). It became his biggest success to date with 2.3 million admissions. He and his brother joined hands again in 2014 but this time to produce Gina KIM’s <A Girl at My Door> (2014), starring BAE Doo-na and <A Brand New Life> lead actress KIM Sae-ron. The film made a sensation in Cannes where it premiered and had an extremely long run on the festival circuit thereafter, with more than 25 selections. He was once again involved as a co-producer in LEE Chang-dong’s first movie in eight years, the mystery drama <BURNING> (2018), which joined the main competition of the Cannes Film Festival.Less